music. drums. family. love.
Bruce Lee, my uncle Wesley (died in the '40's at age 7 from athsma - no emergency hospital care for blacks), Brian from Houston.
JAZZ / charlie parker, dizzy gillespie, sonny rollins, miles davis, herbie hancock, weather report, mike stern, lionel hampton, thelonious monk, duke ellington, benny golson, tony williams, clifford brown, max roach, art blakey, ella fitzgerald and many others.FUNK / james brown, cameo, prince, slave, roger troutman and zapp, the time, parliment / funkadelic, mother's finest and many othersR&B / chaka khan, bernard "nard" wright, marvin gaye, stevie wonder, GQ (what up, herbie!!), barry white, patrice rushen, isley brothers, don blackman and many others.'70's-'80's ROCK / queen, the police, the clash, pat benitar, james taylor and many others.OTHERS / gil giberto and many others.
let's do it again, woody allen flicks, all bruce lee flicks, quinten tarrentino flicks, saturday afternoon chinese kung fu flicks and many others.
cosby show, chef (british comedy), the jeffersons, what's happenin'?, martin lawrence show, the carol burnett show, david letterman (when drummer steve jordan was in the house band), the incredible hulk (with that sad-ass music at the end of the show), gomer pyle, bugs bunny and looney toones and others.
MY WIFE *SARAH RIESNER-TEMPLE* FOR DELIVERING MILES MAXWELL INTO OUR WORLD!!!!! MILES DAVIS, RICHARD PRYOR, BRUCE LEE, MUHAMMED ALI, JACKSON 5, JIM KELLY, LIONEL HAMPTON, MAX ROACH, TONY WILLIAMS, SLAVE, CAMEO, JAMES BROWN, ART BLAKEY.