I stop and catch a set at the Vanguard if it is Monday Night - Thad Jones & Mel Lewis Big Band. I might stop at Boomers to hear Cedar Walton or to Slugs for Lee Morgan - The Music Inn Where Roy Ayers or Lloyd McNeill might be playing. From small clubs to large Venues, from festivals in the parks to the Jazz Mobile in the neighborhood, all Night Jazz At St Peters Church. The Music is hot. It’s the 70's in New York. San Francisco Bay Area - Keystone Korners, Yosh’s, Sam Rivers, The Art Ensemble of Chicago, Modern Jazz Quartet.

I have been drawing Jazz Musicians for 32 years. It has become my way of listening. The line tells the story - the mood, the tempo, the sound and the relationship of the musician to the instrument.