Well I finally caught up with another friend from the old days, this one a tenor sax player named Geoff Torres that's featured in the Brad Bietry jazz group out of Colorado. The guy is so talented, writing his own solos since he was about 14 or 15.
I had the pleasure of playing trombone/bass trombone with him back in our Oklahoma highschool when we used to take state all the time. :)
And who says Okies are dumb????
http://www.gigmasters.com/swing/BradBietryJazzGroup/
Another guy, Brian Gorrell and Jazz Company, is a regular feature now in Oklahoma City's jazz scene. An alto sax and piano player, he's also a tremendous success.
http://www.briangorrell.com/
And David Gibson, trombonist extraordinaire, went on to become an Eastman School of Music graduate and is now living in New York promoting his CD's and playing with famous greats such as Slide Hampton and teaching at Columbia University.
Wow, what 20 years can do. I never took my musical talents past college, unless you count castanet playing in a flamenco group actual music. LOL
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