outstanding hard drive it hard swinging cat and something of a throwback to the beatnik era he's got a cool little mustache that turns up on the ends like salvador dal he's also  fine businessman he has his own cd label jendayi records several c d s out on that label he's traveled around the world with some of the heavyweights as including dizzy gillespie and he's brothers and joe anderson mark elf and guitar player as you'll see check  kern was one of the great american popular composers and most of the great american songbook composers love jazz they love to hear what the jazz artists did with their songs new inventions that they came up with cole porter and  ironic that their own parents all the things you are is one of the most played songs in the dad's repertory and nobody plays it the way he wanted it played that's your own care and want to do to play the notes as written and you'll see that  margo doesn't play the notes as written he uses that as a springboard for his own invention and that's what jazz is all about it's almost never about playing the notes as written at the bout using the notes and the harmonies and the chord patterns as a springboard really entered the jazz big leagues when he went to europe when dizzy gillespie tapped him to tour with them and germany and france and greece and dizzy gillespie of course was one of the greatest trumpeters and jazz and one of the innovators of bebop another one of the great jazz trumpeter who sadly died young and who was a great innovator and bebop was the late clifford brown and you're going to hear mark else and the band do brown earth welcome back the man in black and we don't mean johnny cash but mark out for his trademark black hat and he's going to do a great bar song one of the pitfalls of being out in the bars all the time and having that bar lifestyle it myself is that smoke gets in your eyes this is a fine it's break time everybody and everybody needs a break tune and mark as one of the most common and popular break tunes gone one two in favor by art blakey and scads of other  that you see on t v is this number is all the way a lot it's the bass player's choice tom lewis and he came up with no more blues and while we're in south america in brazil we might mention that after about twenty five years as a professional musician marc elvis first  little sentences and it's funny that a guy from new york would make his first album in chile but whatever it put marco on his path it got a lot of radio play and that's what helped bring him some one of the time honored practice is and bebop is to take of classic american popular song and take its chord changes and make a new song put a new melanie on top of the same chord pattern and that's what marco did with this next label this is the title track it's based as he'll tell you on lover come back  thank you no was tricking them a tree and i'd like to do a beautiful harold arlen composition and i'm going to be recording on my next record so i like to practice it a little bit see before i go into the studio and  this is really a great tune called blues in the night my mama done told me i hope you enjoy this markel says more chops than a butcher shop but there's more to technique playing fast showing off and in flashy markoff can also be tender and what it really caress about the other side of technique letting the song sing