“Feb 1, 2023 was scratching around late late at the folks’ place, my childhood home,

and my dad with his walker took me straight to a dusty shelf in the unheated office off

the family room and showed me a little 6 ring notebook where he had stored daily notes

he had typed up from memory after leaving the Hollywood home of his saxophone tutor,

left coast jazz legend Jimmy Giuffe (known for his work with Shorty Rogers and the

Giants) and in this notebook from 1955, this page, recording from memory a lesson

about many things, included this thing that requires transition: the being inside the

music so that nothing else exists.”