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| 4/22/2013 - Well it's been a great year so far, on a lot of levels. I've had fun gigs in recent weeks and months with Orrin Evans, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Scott Reeves, Chris Stover, Brian Pareschi, Sean Wayland, Max Weinberg, and others, including a few with students at Purchase recently. I've also had some fun gigs of my own, including one last night at Sycamore with Nate Radley, Gary Wang and E.J Strickland. And I did a short reading between sets from my book, "For Sue", which has gotten some nice attention recently. It was featured on the cover on The Sunday Staten Island Advance a few weeks back in March, and on the front page of their Arts section. That led to a reading and short solo performance on Staten Island on Sunday April 14th at the 60 Bay st Art Gallery. I was also invited to read at the We Three Reading series in the week before that. It's been very nice to hear from folks in recent months that have related to the story. The book has been picked up by Chimbaruzu publishing and will have a 2nd printing later this year. My two books for Improvisation students are also being released in the coming months with Colin Music. I'm also finishing up my first year in the Masters program at Purchase, and have been quite busy there with both that and my teaching. In addition to that and some private students, I've also been doing some teaching at Manhattan School of Music recently. Had some very nice talks with a few old friends and former teachers there today; David Noon, Jim McNeely and Justin DiCioccio. Will be there again some in the coming days. My son Liam turned 14 last month ( how time flies!...). He's been accepted to Bronx Science H.S. in the fall. Shane will be 12 next month and is now very into playing hockey, among other things ( anything other than doing homework!). In the coming weeks and months I'll be playing a couple of concerts as a soloist with the NYYS Big Band, and gigs with The Christian Finger Group, The Bjorkestra, Bill Charlap and others. I'll also be doing some traveling soon, and a tour in Japan later this year. Oh, and by the way, Happy Earth Day! I haven't gotten up on my soap box too much about such things here recently, ( mostly because I've been so frickin' busy!). But, isn't EVERY day Earth Day? Or at least, shouldn't it be?... With Monsanto and others attempting to corner the market on seeds and food around the world, and the Keystone pipeline, and the BP spill, the melting of glaciers all over the world that give water to hundreds of millions of people, and Fukushima, and more plastic in the oceans than phytoplankton, and hundreds of species going extinct each week, and the depletion of fish in the oceans and rivers, etc.; Isn't it time to truly honor this planet, live and work with it in the ways that are sustainable, like our ancestors did, stop abusing it for the obscene profits of a few ( a.k.a. the 1%), and really care about what we're leaving to our children?... Thanks for checking in, J
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 |  |  | | | |  | Spring of 2013 | | Well it's been a great year so far, on a lot of levels. I've had fun gigs in recent weeks and months with Orrin Evans, The Vanguard Jazz Orchestra,... | | |
|  | A great start to 2013 | | Well, this year is off to a good and fast start. After a couple of weeks of holiday/New Year parties, I played the Vanguard on Monday the 7th. After... | | |
| |  | 9/23 Monk Gala | | It's 6:30 a.m. Monday Sept. 24th and I'm on a train heading back to NY after a very fun and busy weekend here in DC for this year's Monk Competition... | | |
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| | | | | | | Evolution CD (Mail Order) |  | Welcome to the Evolution CD Participant Offer where it is my pleasure to share the creation of this new work with you through ArtistShare. As a participant, during the course of this project you will have a unique look into the entire... |  |
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