Just got home from my gig at the Half Tone in Tachikawa. Mannnn it was nice to play with Makoto again. We haven't played together for a while. He is one of the very first musicians that I met when I came to Japan. Everyone told me that I should go to his monthly afternoon jam session at the Shinjuku Pit Inn. I went and heard someone who had really captured the spirit of bebop. Tonight we just did a duo...trumpet and piano only. Well, I'm really looking forward to going to Half Tone again on August 12. I'll be playing with my new band called Neil Stalnaker's East/West Unit featuring Hakue Kim on piano, Jeff Curry on bass and Masashi Tomikawa on drums.
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