Hi Art,

Don't know about the tapes. I know that they did write some songs. I believe that one of them was "A Satisfied Mind" but I'm not sure. Cisco, about that time, had developed a bad tumor in his stomach. It went without being checked and eventually lead to his demise. He went back to Eagle Rock, California (part of L.A.) where he was born and to leave us.

I would love to have heard those tapes too.

Erik and I go way back to Washington Square. I still talk to him on-line. He's just finishing up his CD. We always liked trad jazz style playing together. Always thought that if Erik wanted to go that way, he coulda'. His voice sounded like a trumpet to me. Musically, we were on the same wave. We usta' hang together in the Square and once tried to do a record for Kenny Goldstein but it didn't pan out. This is the milk run instead of the express for saying that Erik and I worked easilly together over the years and we sort of rehearsed because Erik's big on that. Although when we forgot the words in the second verse, it was spontaneous. I don't know how or why you rehearse something like that.

Frank