(metallophone used for spontaneous daily jazz-tone poem composition at home)
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with my favorite Edmonton jazzer Charlie Austin and his excellent trio. We were mutual friends of the late local bassist Stu Millman, acknowledged on Charlie’s latest CD.
http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/charlieaustintrio2
Under Album Notes, Read more… are references to this connection and an excerpt from my long homage poem to Stu called “As Good as It Gets”, which I performed memorably with the trio at the Yardbird Suite after Stu passed.
(I have also written other jazz poems to other jazzers including Peter Erskine, Lenny Breau and Miles Davis, and have one tentatively planned for Stan Getz.)