Trading 4's with
Carl Fontana, during a performance given by the Springs
Contemporary Jazz Big Band
Hanging out with
actress Rosario Dawson before we
performed at the 2009 MTV2 Inaugural Ball. Not a bad day
at work!
Me with the Airmen
of Note Reunion Sextet (Left to right - Nick Manson,
Mike Crotty, John Lewis, Brent McKesson, Ken Smukal,
Ryan Haines)
Soloing with the
Bruce Gates Jazz Consortium Big Band.
Performing
alongside saxophonist Pete Christlieb
My summer with the
Blue Devils.
Recording Bill
Watrous for "A Touch of Jobim" by the Falconaires.
Soloing with the
GCC Monday night band.
Performing with
the Marty Ashby Trio at the Musical Instrument Museum (MIM)
Theatre
Soloing in front
of the Sierra Vista High School jazz ensemble. We
performed Pan-Fried Doodles, Goodnight Story, and
Slushpump Central (all three are on my
published music page).
The guys who
played my arrangements of "76,000 Trombones" (aka "76
Trombones") and "Till There Was You".
If you want
something really fun to play during Christmas, write it
yourself. Here's the full tune:
"Bree-Nicky's First Christmas".
The Disney College
Band 1988. Ah, good times. Performing all day long.
Clinics with industry professionals. Entertaining people
every day. Can I go back and do that some more???
Side by side
clinic at Las Vegas High School.
Performing on the
Today Show in 2008.
Tierrasanta premiere at IAJE in 1996.
Hanging out at the White House
back in 2007, scratching Barney. A week later, I was warming up some high
notes in the Capitol Rotunda.
ho-hum...Just another day at the office.
From top left:
Bill Murray, Scott Webring, me and Bob Dawson at
Bias Studios in Springfield,
Virginia when Bob and I mixed the Falconaires CD "A
Touch of Jobim". I'm quite proud of that recording.
