My Music on New Savanna and 3QD

I’ve got quite a lot about music on New Savanna, including quite a bit about my own music. Here’s posts about my interest in jazz, and here’s posts specifically about how I learned about and learned to play jazz. This post, in particular, is about my earliest jazz, including Louis Armstrong. Groups I've played in.

This is a recent post, about a band I helped form and played in when I was in upstate New York in the mid-1980s. the New African Music Collective (NAMC). We opened for Dizzy Gillespie in 1984.

Here’s three posts about jam sessions with my Hoboken friend, Howard Olah-Reiken.

This is a free jazz workshop I took with the bassist, William Parker.

This post is from roughly the same era as the NAMC post, when I was living in upstate New York in Troy. But it’s about very different music, the Sage City Symphony in Bennington, Vermont (just across the border).

Here’s a post about my favorite venue for listening to live jazz, the Left Bank Jazz Society in Baltimore Maryland. This is a somewhat extended version of that article.

Here’s a post about being in an improvisation workshop led by Frank Foster at SUNY Buffalo in the mid-1970s.

Now we’re back to Baltimore; this is about The Saint Matthew Passion, a rock group I played with from 1969 to ‘71. A formative experience, very.

And here’s the story about The Out of Control Rhythm and Blues Band, based out of Schenectday, NY.

My association with Charlie Keil. Here we’re marching and jamming in protest against the 2003 war in Irag.

Videos of three tunes performed by a 12/8 path band Charlie Keil assembled: Jamming on “Amazing Grace,” an original we made up in the studio, “Peace Now,”

What I learned playing in marching band in high school. 

NOTE: I also have a YouTube channel. It has a number of solo trumpet (or flugelhorn) videos, three videos of the 12/8 path band, and then a bunch of play lists.