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SOUL TREK – I found creative mysticism to be useful in understanding improvisation.

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CHERISHED MOMENTS – Those fleeting special cherished moments in music which supercharge our passion for the art form itself.

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THE DRONES OF CONTEMPLATION – Improvisation is instructive because it is absolutely imperative that the improviser focus intently on the present moment without judgment, and without expectation or looking ahead.. 

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CONDENSATION – What is interesting to me is that the water seems to just materialize out of thin air. 

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LONGHAND– Was one of the few skills taught in which some personal stylistic traits were expected. 

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WIND AND CHIMES – Intriguing partly due to the random selection of the chimes that ring, and partly the natural rhythmic pulsation of the wind. 

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BRINGER OF OLD AGE – We age because of where we are going. 

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DIVERGENCE – To take a different path entirely, to veer off on a tangent, to take a decidedly marginal stance.

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DELIRIOUS – An exploration of that rather delirious stream of unconsciousness when improvising. 

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CELESTIAL PALETTE – The sky, fascinating, always full of variety and subtlety and often an object of stunning beauty

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ADORN– Exploring several different adornments, their (possible) meanings and emotional possibilities.

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FEINT– A sly diversion; a comment on our ‘continually evolving’ culture and technology.

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FRAGILE – A piano album pondering impermanence, climate change and other fragile pillars of our existence.

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DIVINES – Cultivating intuition, exploring reason and the intermingling of cultures. 

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GYRO – An Exploration of Spiral Motion.  

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EXISTENTIAL DOUBT – A piano album concerning the uncertainty of our future.

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QUANDARY– A piano album of inquiry, discovery, and exploration.

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RETREAT – A solo piano album of reflection and hope.   

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DOWNHILL – A collection of seemingly small things which trigger a whole series of events.   

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JUST ADD WATER – Water in the desert is synonymous with life. 

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HOLD THAT THOUGHT – Focused attention seems to be often mistaken for trance.

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GRIND – A solo piano album about work.

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RECOVERY –  An album examining impermanence and the process of healing.

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WAITING INTO THE NIGHT –  An album exploring the tragedy of worry.

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MAGIC GARDEN –

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OF TIME AND MEMORIES – A musical journey through outer and inner time.

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QUAIL SONG – The complicated social life and plaintive soulful cry of the Gambel’s Quail is the album’s inspiration.

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BRIDGE TO NOWHERE – An album of piano improvisation that explores the idea of spiritual awakening.

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OF THE BELLS BELLS BELLS – My most recent album of piano improvisation reverberates through some literary terrain.

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NIGHT DRIFT – An exploration of late night imagination.

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MYTHS AND FAIRY TALES – Lovely and fanciful Little White Lies we tell ourselves and our children, that fuel our dreams and aspirations.

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HAIBUN FOR THOSE WASHED AWAY – A memorial to the 17,000 people who perished in the terrible tsunami that struck Japan in March, 2011.

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ASH FORK VERSES SET #3 – Remembering the hermit who lived for decades in the 200 sq. ft. cabin.

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ASH FOR VERSES SET #2 – The den was deep and the ground was hard.  I can only imagine what life was like for the family that lived there.

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ASH FORK VERSES SET #1 – Even in a small breeze, the window howls mercilessly; it mixes with the birds to make howling, chirping duets! I watched that mountain each day for hours, and it changed my music forever.

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FROZEN GEYSERS – There is absolutely nothing one can do about emotional intensity.

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CASCADES OF FOG –  A dialog with memories, losing touch with one’s foundation.

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FLOATING LEAVES – A separate entity floating through time, a different color and variety with its own path.

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DANDELION SEEDS – The leap into life’s journey that we all make at one time or another.

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CRICKET CAGES – A nice personal conversation on a warm, quiet, peaceful summer evening . . . with the sounds of crickets.

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SNOW MELT – The melting of snow, the breaking of ice, the flowering of life, the rejuvenation of the spirit.

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DREAMCATCHER – Capturing dreams, inferring that dreams have an independent existence of their own.