Music, Art, playing & teaching the drums, Books, Movies, City of Boston, New York, Italian food mmmmmmmmm, people watching, Red Sox Games, Vintage Drums or anything to do with drums & drumming, Playing piano, Jazz Record Connoisseur. Summertime thunderstorms (I know it's cliche), I like Poetry, Edgar Allan Poe, The Beat Generation, William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg, etc... For outdoor activity I like mountain biking, Running, the beach, surf casting (fishing in the ocean), fresh water fishing. I love Black and White Photography ala Francis Wolff. I enjoy cooking and going to restaurants, great food and vino, coffee shops, Roadside Diners, Bohemia, antiques, nostalgia, lots of stuff! ....OH! and peanut M&M's !!!
I'd like to meet:
Friends, musicians, artistic people, intriguing people with stories about their life or just good stories to tell - Fellow Bohemians Welcome!!! Ooo-Bop-Sha-bam ;-) I'll poor the coffee, tea, or vino! What? you like Beer? Ok -one Murphy's Irish Stout comin' up - we're open all night!
Check out the slide show below to see a few of my favorite drummers who've been very influencial on my own style of drumming (just pass your mouse over the pics to pause the slides and see the name of the drummers as they appear!) Enjoy the show and feel free to leave comments!
Music:
IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Blues, Jazz, Classical, Rock, Rhythm and Blues, old school Country, pretty much any music that is the "real deal". Classic Blue Note, Riverside, Impulse, Atlantic recordings of the 50's and 60's are my absolute favorites.... Genesis, Phil Collins, Donald Fagen, David Gray, old Sting, Howlin' Wolf, John Lee Hooker, Muddy Waters, Zappa, Hank Williams Sr., Johnny Cash, Paul Simon, The Mills Brothers, George Shearing, Babatunde Olatunji, Gong, Dixie Dregs, UK, Ethnic music (Japanese), Yo-Yo Ma (The Silk Road), Marshall Crenshaw, The Doors, CSNY, Tower Of Power, Yes, Peter Gabriel, Jackson Browne, Bonnie Raitt, Alysson Kraus, John Fogerty, Gabe Dixon Band, Amos Lee, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Foo Fighters, Pink Floyd, Aaron Copeland, Bela Bartok, Bernard Herman, Ennio Morricone, Stravinsky, Copeland, John Williams, Leonard Bernstein, John Zorn, Vital Information, Weather Report, Alan Holdsworth, Bill Bruford, John Scofield, Fats Domino, Bill Haley and The Comets, Gypsy Kings, Chris Issak, Buddy Holly, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Little Richard, Thelonious Monk, Wynton Kelly, Wayne Shorter, Jackie McLean, Bobby Hutcherson, Sam Rivers, Herbie Hancock, Andrew Hill, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, The Fringe(Boston), Greg Abate, Julius Hemphill, Randy Weston, Geri Allen, Don Pullen, Diana Krall, ALL THE BERKLEE KATS Mark Turner, Jorge Rossy, Chris Cheek, Jim Black, Andrew D'Angelo, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Seamus Blake, Dwayne Burno, Antony Wonsey, Roy Hargrove, Oscar Noriega, Rene Hart, Tony Hart, Joshua Redman(honorary), Jeff Charland, Scott Kinsey, Scott Amendola, Johnny Rabb, Lil' John Roberts, Kimbal Browne, Ted Sirota, Dan Rieser, Dave Hurst, Matt Renzi, Riley Mullins, Tanya Smith, Jim Dower, Lee Alexander, etc... Stevie Wonder, Billy Joel, "old" Elton John, Sinatra, Ray Charles, B.B. King, The Beatles, The Police, Chet Baker, Gerry Mulligan, Miles, Coltrane, Kurt Elling, Betty Carter, Sarah Vaughan, Carmen McRae, Billy Holiday, Louis Prima, Bill Evans, Jimmy Giuffre, Vince Guaraldi, Pat Metheny, Jim Hall, Wes Montgomery, Phineas Newborn Jr., Joe Chambers, Billy Higgins, Jimmy Cobb, Tony Williams, Philly Joe Jones, (all great drummers), Joe Lovano, Lou Donaldson, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Tony Bennett, Billy Holiday, Oliver Nelson, Kenny Dorham, Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, Salsa, Mambo, Afro-Cuban, Poncho Sanchez, Jerry Gonzales, Louis Armstrong, Bix Biederbeck, Jimmy Smith, Mingus, Gil Evans, Sonny Clark, Dexter Gordon, Stan Getz, Hank Mobley, Joe Henderson, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ellis, Branford, Wynton, Delfayo and Jason Marsalis, The Trio-"Meet the Locals" (from NORWAY), Do I need to list everything in my collection??? lol...the list is endless...yet somehow strangely connected. For a more detailed/specific list of what I listen to, you'll have to check out my other website via request - write me an email and lets talk about music/Life/Jazz/anything!
Movies:
Most Speilberg, Hitchcock, Cast Away, Taxi Driver, Requiem For a Heavyweight, The Big Night, Witness, JFK, Dances With Wolves, The Deer Hunter, One Flew Over the Coo-Coo's Nest, Paper Moon, Radio Days, Brighton Beach Memoirs, The Sunshine Boys, Stalag 17, The Hustler, Mr. Roberts, Casablanca, Key Largo, To Have And Have Not, Schindler's List, Midnight Express, Spinal Tap, American Graffiti, Round Midnight, Classic Horror & Sci-Fi, Marx Brothers films, Woody Allen films, Forever Young, She's The One, Young Frankenstien, High Fidelity, Rain Man, The Shining, The Thing, The Fog (original verison), Stand By Me, 12 Angry Men, It's A Wonderful Life, Mississippi Burning, Angel Heart, Straight No Chaser, On Golden Pond, The Jerk, The Breakfast Club, Planes Trains & Automobiles, Grumpy Old Men, Psycho, Easy Rider, Jesus Christ Superstar, The Ten Commandments, The Lawnmower Man (not the horror movie), Tommy Boy, Liar Liar, Tora Tora Tora, Jaws, Clockwork Orange, First Blood, Annie Hall, Slingblade, The Elephant Man, Ed Wood, Dumb & Dumber, Oh Brother Where Art Thou - many others...(last movies rented-"The Good Shepard" last movies seen at the movies theater "Pirates of the Carribean at Worlds End" and "The Bourne Ultimatum"
Television:
Chronicle, RED SOX GAMES, Public Television, Bravo, Made In America, Seinfeld re-runs, The Honeymooners, Star Trek Original Series, Twilight Zone Original Series, M*A*S*H, Food Channel, Antiques Roadshow, 60 Minutes, Frontline
Books:
Where Have All the Leaders Gone? - Lee Iacocca, On The Road - Jack Kerouac, Some of the Dharma- Jack Kerouac, 10 Secrets to Success & Inner Peace - Wayne Dyer, Wisdom Of The Ages- Wayne Dyer, The Blue Note Years Jazz Photography - Francis Wolff, In Harms Way (The Sinking of The Indianapolis), What the Buddha Taught, Everything Happens To Me (a musical biography of pianist Bill Evans, others...
Heroes:
Mom and Dad, All who have gone into battle, fought and/or died to provide me and fellow americans with the freedom that I so dearly appreciate. All who died or struggled to save complete strangers in need of help on 9/11 ~ how soon we forget as a nation how fragile life is and the importance of helping others - if we all could live with the compassion and caring shown that day EVERYDAY.
Politically: John F. Kennedy, Martin Luther King Jr.
Movies: Harrison Ford
Sports: Muhammad Ali "Float like a butterfly, Sting like a bee"
Music: see music listing above
