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August 2010
After spending the month of July in Asia it's nice to be back at home again, although I had a
great time over there. I'd like to say a thanks to everybody at TISJA in Taipei, from the other
faculty members to the students and especially Chi-pin, Kai-ya and everybody with TIJEPA for
putting it all together. I had the pleasure of playing in Japan for the first time with David
Berkman, Ryo Ogihara, Kenji Shimada and Sounosuke Imaizumi, very fun gigs. Also a special
pleasure was playing in Seoul, Korea with my close friend Kenji Omae and once again David
Berkman. We had a number of fun gigs and played the EBS Space TV show, which should air this
month as 50-minutes of the David Smith Quintet! I hope to have some clips from it on my
videos page as they become available. I got to play with a number of fantastic musicians there
including Lee Chul-Hoon, Chris Varga, Lee Sang-min, Kim Chang-Hyun, Shin Dong-Jin, Lim
Mi-Jung and several others that I'm missing... It was great to play the music from Anticipation
with Kenji and a privilege to have so many opportunities to play with David Berkman between
Japan and Korea which were lessons every time.
Now back to normal life, and some fun stuff this month. A couple of big band gigs with Andrew
Rathbun's band and Mike Fahie's Jazz Orchestra, and a gig in Philadelphia with Paul Carlon's Los
Americas Quintet. For more info about these see my schedule page.
Reviews keep coming in for Anticipation, I'll be updating my press page in the coming weeks
with what they are saying. The album is available from my new digital downloads page as well as
iTunes, Amazon.com and a number of other digital retailers, and CD copies can be purchased
from me or through BJUR.
Some new features of the website if you haven't noticed the direct links for ordering CD's and
my digital music page for streaming or purchasing (including in hi-res) the new record. In
addition you can purchase sheet music for some of my tunes by clicking here.
After spending the month of July in Asia it's nice to be back at home again, although I had a
great time over there. I'd like to say a thanks to everybody at TISJA in Taipei, from the other
faculty members to the students and especially Chi-pin, Kai-ya and everybody with TIJEPA for
putting it all together. I had the pleasure of playing in Japan for the first time with David
Berkman, Ryo Ogihara, Kenji Shimada and Sounosuke Imaizumi, very fun gigs. Also a special
pleasure was playing in Seoul, Korea with my close friend Kenji Omae and once again David
Berkman. We had a number of fun gigs and played the EBS Space TV show, which should air this
month as 50-minutes of the David Smith Quintet! I hope to have some clips from it on my
videos page as they become available. I got to play with a number of fantastic musicians there
including Lee Chul-Hoon, Chris Varga, Lee Sang-min, Kim Chang-Hyun, Shin Dong-Jin, Lim
Mi-Jung and several others that I'm missing... It was great to play the music from Anticipation
with Kenji and a privilege to have so many opportunities to play with David Berkman between
Japan and Korea which were lessons every time.
Now back to normal life, and some fun stuff this month. A couple of big band gigs with Andrew
Rathbun's band and Mike Fahie's Jazz Orchestra, and a gig in Philadelphia with Paul Carlon's Los
Americas Quintet. For more info about these see my schedule page.
Reviews keep coming in for Anticipation, I'll be updating my press page in the coming weeks
with what they are saying. The album is available from my new digital downloads page as well as
iTunes, Amazon.com and a number of other digital retailers, and CD copies can be purchased
from me or through BJUR.
Some new features of the website if you haven't noticed the direct links for ordering CD's and
my digital music page for streaming or purchasing (including in hi-res) the new record. In
addition you can purchase sheet music for some of my tunes by clicking here.