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This is very important. That's all I'm going to really say. It could change your life.

Ok here's a gig story for you. Maybe get you going and get a few of you guys to try and top this one.

In order to pull off my rehearsals and gigs yesterday I had to:

Wake up at 4:30am
leave the house at 5

I got in Manhattan at 7:30

8:30 Unloaded my equipment at the Museum of Jewish Heritage
Practiced by myself there for one hour.

Ran up and did a rehearsal at Machiko's Rehearsal Studio at 10 with Elio Villafranco

Got back to the Museum at 3 rehearsed with Joe Piscopo at 4

Played 6 to 9:30 then ran to the Zinc Bar with Elio and played 11 to 2 and drove back.

When it rains it pours. All us musicians trying to make a living get so angry when we get 3 calls for the same night. That means we lost 2 gigs!!

Things are slow here in Philly and just last week I got depressed about not having a bunch of gigs. Then it rained and then it poured.

Now I have about 15 tunes to learn, a bunch of site reading, a couple rehearsals, a few gigs and about maybe a thousand miles of driving.

Harry Sheppard is a vibe player from Houston and Formerly New York. He played with Benny and Billie Holiday and everyone else back in the day!

Here he is on the Mallet Kat.

---- Tony Miceli

This is to die for. He is smokin' here!

All about Nico's instruments are here.

Hi again,

I'm just back from our hang, and in the middle of it I got a message from Umbria Jazz Festival (Italy) alerting me about a new very very fresh video of Joe!

I knew Joe was to play a duet with amazing french pianist Martial Solal (FYI, MS is 81 years old, and 20 in his fingers!). I had asked and they very nicely sent me an email with weblink!

Here is a sample of that gig, which took place today at 4 p.m. western Europe time... which is... some 5 hours ago!

Don't they both look like kids in a playground?!!

Enjoy! :o)

Ok, I've always had a problem understanding modes. I'm doing some self study using Mark Harrison's "Contemporary Music Theroy" level one. From this I've derived the following:

Ionian - starting in the 1st degree of the scale
Dorian - starting on the 2nd degree of the scale
Phygrian - starting on the 3rd degree of the scale
Lydian - starting on the 4th degree of the scale
Mixolydian - starting on the 5th degree of the scale
Aeolian - starting on the 6th degree of the scale
Locrian - starting on the 7th degree of the scale

Oh man!

I just found the freshest news from one of Joe's very recent performances at Umbria (Italy). This video was just posted today. The gig can only be one or two days old! There's Bob Cranshaw on double bass (!), Joe Labarbera on drums and surely Dado Moroni on piano...

Oh man! Isn't that great! A postcard from Italy! :o)

PS: enjoy, but get ready, the vid is "inhumanly" cut! :o( Never mind! It's beautiful!

Here's me playing Bluesette to go along with the bluesette lesson.

Check out the other subscribers versions of Bluesette as well!