On this tune taken from a recent performance in Europe with the World View Trio (Wolfgang Reisinger on drums, Jean Paul Celea on bass), I am playing piano. It is an encore tune which we usually do free meaning no discussion or idea of what will transpire. I like this take for its sense of surprise and basic brevity. Also you can hear the incredible expertise of Celea who is also the classical bass teacher at the famous Paris Conservatory, quite a feat to pull off in the conservative academic world of France.

This excerpt is from a very different kind of jam session in the old port Jaffa near Tel Aviv, Israel, where I jammed with several drummers for hours on end. My good friend Leon Segal was also present in the drum corps. This kind of playing is reminiscent of the old loft sessions that I have written so much about that took place in the late ’60s. Basically, the music has a late Trane vibe in which one just lets everything go.

This is a live version of “Little Peanut” which was originally recorded on “Songs for My Daughter (Soul Note)” from the Santa Fe Jazz Festival, October 2000, after a Japanese tour. It features, along with Vic Juris on guitar and Tony Marino on bass, the newest addition to the group, Marko Marcinko on drums. The tune itself is merely a simple head that allows for open and free improvising as the mood strikes us.