PeRforMaNce "You keep playing, keep studying, keep listening, keep learning, and you keep developing. Jazz is not a nine to one A.M. job, once or twice a week. It's a way of life. Some people develop in their twenties. Some people mature in their thirties. It took me to reach my fifties before I matured. It finally happened when a situation took place where I became more secure and much happier with myself. I wasn't satisfied then, but I was satisfied that I was finally heading in the direction that I really should have been heading in all along." Red Rodney
FOUR Jim's solo. Performing at the Carolina Ale House in Conway, SC, with Arlin Strader and veteran Philly organist Ray Malach.
With 82-year-old drummer sitting in! There's no reason not to swing all your life!
Jim's melody statement, with organist Ray Mallach and drummer Arlin Strader.
My favorite ballad.
Just Friends Guitar duo from Jim's teaching studio: Jim plays melody and solo,
ending in some Wes-style chord work
Night and Day Guitar Duo from Jim's teaching studio: excerpt - Jim's solo
Beautiful Love Guitar duo from Jim's teaching studio: excerpt - Jim's melody
statement and solo
Chord solo: Sound clip enters at chorus 2, Jim's improvisation on the form.
The Shadow of Your Smile Jazz Full Circle quartet, Seekonk, Mass.
Early 90's recordings with organist Tony Monaco, Columbus, Ohio
Arlin Strader Quartet, 2009 -LIVE
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