This is a 2006 recording of "Jazz Profiles" a public radio show featured on Hualien, Taiwan's National Education Radio, by Doug Newton.  On this show, my band-mate, percussionist Justin Yore joins me to discuss various tracks.

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This is a June, 2006 recording of National Education Radio's "Jazz Profiles", hosted by Douglas Newton.  

Jazz Profiles with Rock Starkey and Justin Yore

I wrote this song as an homage to the life work of Eliot Smith on the occasion of his self-promotion into the ether.  It is a celebration of the possibilities that life holds, considered in the shadow of that unfortunate act.  