The Spring Semester is over and I am taking a little breather this afternoon before plunging into the many other projects and piles of work that have been put on hold over the past few weeks. After adjudicating a bunch of grad recitals and hearing some of the wonderful work that was done by the students at Capilano this semester I feel very grateful to be a music educator and to work with such intelligent, creative, and interesting students. Thanks all for a great year!
Wednesday night I played a great gig with the Len Aruliah Sextet at Presentation House Studio. The house was packed to capacity Len had a new batch of tunes beautifully and intricately arranged for the band: Joe Poole (drums), Brent Gubbels (bass), Kristian Alexandrov (piano), Colin Maskell (tenor), plus Len and me. I always have a great time playing with any of these players, but it was the first time with this particular grouping. I thought the band played especially well. Joe really kept things exciting and challenged everyone to play on a higher level. What an amazing drummer and musician he is. I'll be playing with him again next week at the same venue with Coat Cooke (saxes) and Clyde Reed (bass).
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