Randy Brecker, Joe Beck, Ali Ryerson, Robert Aries,
Chris Parker, Nicole Pasternak, John Cain,
Bill Bickford, Tyger MacNeal, Bob Leonard,
Chris Morrison, Thierry Arpino, Chris Pike,
Tim Dehuff, Ed Chervansky, Joe Carter,
David Morgan, Nick Bariluk, Chris Coogan,
Ken Geoffrey, Tim Moran, Jerry Vigorito
Phil Hamilton, Arthur Lipner
Yellowjackets, Sergio Mendez, Miles Davis,
Weather Report, Jobim, Ivan Linns,
Tower Of Power, James Jamerson,
Jaco Pastorius, Steely Dan, Bill Evans Trio
As an Electric/Acoustic Bassist and Vocalist, I have performed or recorded at clubs and music festivals in the NYC Metropolitan area with world renowned artists including Randy Brecker, Chris Parker and Joe Beck. Brazilian, Afro Cuban, Caribbean and Contemporay Jazz music has influenced me as a composer and performer on my current release, "Wind Song", and my forthcoming release, "Water Rhapsody". I have performed as an opening act for Tower Of Power, Manhattan Transfer, BB King and YES.
A poem for your day:
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Rest In All Love Is
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I love you like this...
dark, i can barely see your eyes...
so dark my eyes are useless. My
heart opens wide its light on you
and your face brightens like the
static on a TV screen, or like the moment
we die and things begin to go all white
and
then
you're an angel laying before me...
the same one that has been there all along,
the one my eyes turned into something else and I
am ashamed I was deceived.
Then,
I see you, I see you like the energy that flows through my limbs,
now, like the breath that takes the universe and
gently creates another, now, like my feet walking
on glass, now, like I was never there.
I love you like I was never there. So gently, never there. In the dark
where I can barely see, and, rest in all that love is.
Come out and hear some great jazz from a great quintet next Friday night at Port City Java in Bernardsville, NJ. We are expecting quite a few cats to come out and a couple to sit in with us too.
I look at you my Friend and I see a child at play
frolicking in muddy streams, splashing rivers into
oceans and carrying each molecule gently
to the sky for another round like a child handing water to his Father
for the first time.
You are neither boastful nor meek.
You are not shy nor are you seeking attention
There is simply abundance and grace with you my Friend
and you ask nothing of me...save I am my self...fully...always... and
you ask without asking...lead without
leading...cause...effortlessly.
