Gallery

With Louie Bellson. Jazz on the Hill 1995, San Mateo, CA.

Swingin' at the Blue Note with R.C.

Black and white at the Blue Note - Sept. 1990

With Mariah Carey and Aretha Franklin - VH1 Divas Live.

With Mariah Carey and Aretha Franklin - VH1 Divas Live

Hangin' with Brother Ray.

With Aretha Franklin, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Shania Twain, Gloria Estefan, Carole King - VH1 Divas Live

Hangin' with Aretha at the restaurant.

With David Grisman @ Great American Music Hall, S.F., Merle Saunders CD Release Party Sept. 2004.

With Tony Saunders, David Grisman, and Mike Hinton.

With Aretha Franklin on the set of Good Morning America.

With David Grisman.

With David and Mike.

Cast & crew of the Janis Joplin show "Love, Janis", original members of Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis' sister Laura, and brother Michael.

Hanging out with Paul Schaffer and members of the Letterman band at CBS studios in Los Angeles.

With Wycliffe Gordon and Anat Cohen. After a fantastic concert at the Stanford Jazz Festival in the summer of 2022 with an all-star big band. Tons of fun!

The George Brooks/Zakir Hussain Group: (L-R): David Rokeach, Jack Perla, Ashish Khan, Zakir Hussain, George Brooks, David Belove

20 years later in 2018 with George Brooks and Aspada Featuring Kai Eckhardt on bass and Osam Ezzeldin on piano.

With Louie. "For most of the gig the drummer was Dave Rokeach, but Louie Bellson played for about three numbers and traded fours with Rokeach in one of the high points of the first afternoon."- Jazz Now, Aug. 1995

Something in the music seemed to have the same effect on our mouths.

A very gracious Louis Bellson after an exhausting duet.

With Taj Mahal, Mark Heshima Williams, and Bob Crawford recording my favorite Mose Allison song 'Your Mind is on Vacation and Your Mouth is Working Overtime' for the Moss Allison tribute record 'If You’re Going to the City'.

With Taj Mahal.

With phenomenal Gregory Porter.

With Jon Faddis.

Stanley Clarke

Ray Charles: the only man I ever knew who read Playboy for the articles.

with the Ray Charles band in an ancient coliseum in Arles, France.

with Jack Casady and Jorma Kaukonen backstage at the Telluride Blues Festival, 1999.

Celia Malheros and Brazil Now, 1988. Maybe we should be called 'Brazil Then'.

Left wing musical theatre, anyone?

Capturing "Re" capturing me backstage at NYC's Beacon Theatre at VH1's Divas Live Concert 1998.

With the great Sid Ceasar at the Marines Memorial Theatre sometime in the early 1990's. The shadows make us both look like we have hair from a bad disco movie.

With Louie Bellson and Ernie Fields, Jr.

with Carole King backstage at NYC's Beacon Theatre at VH1's Divas Live Concert 1998

Hangin' with Louie and Ernie.

With the late Frank Biner and band. Frank was an amazing singer and guitar player who wrote songs for Tower of Power, Mike Bloomfield, and Huey Lewis.

With H.B. Barnum (front row 2nd from the right) and The Saint Paul's Baptist Church Choir.H.B. has worked with every one fom Aretha to Sinatra to Pink Floyd, and a zillion others.He's an amazingly talented composer, arranger, and conductor.He's also a great person.

H.B. Barnum goofing off with Ray Charles

Aretha wailing and H.B. doing the boogaloo.

With the vocal group For Real at CBS studios in Hollywood for the syndicated TV special Celebrate the Soul of American Music.

At Tokyo's Shinjuku Jam with the Rubinoos 2007.

The Rubinoos backstage at the Great American Music Hall December 6th ' 07

with the Rubinoos; Susie Davis, Jon Rubin, Tommy Dunbar and Al Chan at Nijo Castle, Kyoto, 2007.

at Yoshi's Oakland with the legendary Sonny Simmons 2011. L to R: Fred Harris, Yours truly, Sonny, Charles Thomas

With Charlie Musslewhite and wife Henri in the background and the Kate Wolf Festival in June of 2015. I traveled all over the world with Charlie from 1996 through 1999, back in the days before digital photography ;-)