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I cannot begin to say who I am without saying where I am from, where I grew up, and what kind of no-background I had. I was born Dec. 1941 in a place called Quimper, in that part of France known as Brittany, the bit that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean. Brittany is one of the Celtic nations (part of the “Celtic Fringe”, as it is termed in the U.K.), together with Ireland, Scotland, Cornwall, Wales, and the Isle of Man. It has a language of its own, very similar to Welsh. Incidentally, I speak it.

This is half of what I did for my Berklee Audition on the 16th. This is a rough run through I did today to test out a new video app on my phone (I have an Iphone 3g, so that means I have no video normally).

The other tune I did was Boplicity by Miles Davis. I'll try to record that tomorrow if I have time.

I dug this. Good players.

Hey we're screwing around with the shout box. It's been really slowing down the site. so if you don't see it there, that's what's up!

I saw Zakir and Ustad Allah Rakha live and it was so frickin amazing.

Check how they sing the rhythms and then play them back on the tablas.

It's cool cause it's father and son playing! And they're both such monsters.

Susan Pascal is a subscriber on the site. I don't know much about her so I was crusing Youtube looking for stuff. I found this video of her. She takes a great solo over a Latin tune.

(Not Randy Sutin) Username is just Randy.

Who?

Do women play this instrument with more natural emotion then men?

This girl seems pretty young and pretty expressive in the piece. Seems like an intermediate student, but I saw something in the piece and then thought about other female players and wondered if it's easier for them to be expressive on an instrument that's naturally not that expressive.

Tell me I'm nuts, but I'm just thinking out loud. I always thought women should run the world. They didn't grow playing war, they'd probably find some other solutions to things that guys would never think of.

Nothing to say about this.