Always nice to drop by and see that friends have been here. Now that I've finished the two African CDs (I'll put copies in the mail for you, Ron) I'm taking a lazy day today and doing a CD of my favorite jazz guitar tracks. I've loved jazz guitar since I was a teenager, and worked out very primitive arrangements of a few jazz standards by ear, back then. I've always been able to hear the music. It was simply (or difficultly) a matter of figuring where I had to place my fingers to get the chords to come out of the guitar that were in my head. But, I loved singing even more, so I never
committed the time and discipline to become a jazz guitarist. But, today I've been pulling out jazz CDs, and it's amazing how the magic is still there for me, after all these years. Like everything else I do, I'm always happy to share with anyone who has a similar love of the music.

We had a terrific practice last night. The greatest thing about it is that we brought out the best in each other. That's rare, and something that you can't "make" happen. Each of us has different gifts, and the challenge is to meld them together in a way that each of us makes the others better. Kinda like life at it's best, when we help each other to be the best realization of who we are meant to be.

Jerry