As soon as these guys walked on the stage I felt captured instantly by the empowering energy that these gentlemen were emanating. Joe Farnsworth made me feel a sense of joy, admiration and respect towards Ron Carter from the very beginning and so did Mike Le Donne

Two days ago I had this really fun gig at the Ornithology Jazz Club in Brooklyn with Steve Nelson on guitar subbing for Panas Athanatos and Andrea Niccolai on drums.

It’s just an exercise,

just a chromatic scale goin’ up two octaves.

It took me some time I have to say, gotta play in tune, every note should have the same volume, quality, length.

What is Freedom in Music?

I had an amazing session in Harlem with two great musicians, Luca Santaniello, a great drummer from Italy that is been living in NYC for more than 20 years and Wayne Escoffery, a tenor saxophonist that I used to listen as a teenager on the Tom Harrell albums “Prana Dance” and “Roman Nights”.

I remember when I heard for the first time this record, a high school friend of mine and my music teacher introduced it to me…