I had a wonderful time meeting Monica yesterday. I recorded this for her at 5AM with a practice mute: Girl for Monica

Jazz was my life until about the age of 30. I was taught trombone by Jack Quinby, Marc Wolters and Howard Lamb. I was taught improvisation by Thara Memory. A year and a half before joining the Navy band, I started training my ear by transcribing 6 hours a day while I worked a night job. I had a pretty nice stack of transcriptions by the time I joined the Navy. By the time I got out of the Navy, I damn near had perfect pitch.

All of these recordings were made in 1999 and 2000. They were all recorded with a miniDisc recorder. I had a lot of fun playing jazz for the Navy officers.

Here's the music as linked mp3's:

It was fun doing this multitracking without synthsizers.

• Autumn Leaves

These next two songs are on a Navy gig. We were playing about 2 gigs a week like this. Johnathan Moore is on piano. Steve Shellhammer on conga drums and my good friend Spencer Powell on bass.

• Days of Wine and Roses
• My Funny Valentine

The next three are the Navy big band lead by trombonist Ron Davis.

• When You're Smiling
• When You're Smiling Alt take
• Things Ain't What They Used to Be