New Orleans trio track recorded around 2000. Trevor Richards (drums) Bernd Lhotsky (piano)

Morning Air (Willie "the Lion" Smith)

SnugHarbor_April2014

Tasteful rendition of James P. Johnson's "Carolina Shout" rendered by pianist Kris Tokarski.
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02 Carolina Shout

Warming up a special clarinet for Saturday's Jelly Roll Morton Celebration... 

Someday Sweetheart

Silent Night for three reeds performed in New Orleans for a 2014 holiday show. 

Not-So-Silent-Night

Duos with Joe Ashlar are always an adventure. ...Trying to decide if this one will make the cut for the upcoming Clarinet Road CD. 

2.6.Joe.Tande

From a recent duo showcase at Mezzrow, a listening room in the West Village, Ehud Asherie (piano)and I take on "Fast As a Bastard" a "bastardization" of Ellington's Jubilee Stomp by Kenny Davern & Dick Wellstood.

(Photo: Seth Cashman)

Fast As A Bastard.Mezzrow

This is my song about a New Orleans hangover remedy, a Chinese soup recipe known as "Old Sober" back in the day, and Yakemin today. So, appropriately, it's basically a "contrafact" of China Boy. The version that made it onto the last Clarinet Road CD was with Joe Ashlar, but I had also tried it with David Torkanowsky a couple nights prior for those same sessions.

Old Sober March w/ David Torkanowsky

Took one of my 6-ring L-Series Selmers out for a test drive last week... Recording is a low-fi "voice memo" on a mobile phone placed in front of the stage.

Evan Christopher

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