gentlemen it is my great pleasure to introduce to you three outstanding musicians to my immediate right mr gary him your thank you for coming on the pursued i came from a musical family my brother as we all know played war in different different national groups and had to group here balling jack so i guess  the had the place the spot which i found out later but more about it and how important it was because he had the spot where all the musicians work and not only play when they come to town they actually have a shown one of his first recordings well they broke bread together and sort of joking the seattle with that in mind of course you know it's not said much but he wasn't too highly  was kind of a sad scenario because what he brought here was something that was going on certainly in detroit and was gone on in new york because he came to seattle playing john coltrane to me and when i met him when i first met him i mean i saw him play i knew there was something different about this guy and he was self taught he taught himself you can read all these things about him and just always foll life and always will i just kind of think it was just a little unfortunate that people didn't get all catch on to the fact that who he really was a way i really found out that he was really prominent  mean that spills out clearly well you know it's funny because my my wife's from detroit and we just got there about ten years ago and i went out to her family you know be with the in laws and there's a old club there it's the longest running jazz club in the world in seventy years called baker's keyboard language and i went in there out there to sit in and play and stuff and  found all these guys are like in their eighty's and stuff their service they found out i was from seattle the first thing they asked me about was job yeah there are many years later forty years later that and i got my start with joe to p let us make this is not the back when those guys were playing like danny was telling the story about joe brazil him going to detroit back during that time those guys made th it was upon them and they would come up with the ideas they were being who they were creative artist and they were sharing this is my gift to you this is my gift from above now it's gotten to be betty pain through drill brazil i got the call to go there and started a jazz program and it was brand new it was experimental in fact dan and i we were just over when we were oh well and it had been going for a while when i got there and i essentially i'd already had a degree and so i was in kind of in grad school there and there was still some tension between the jazz department and the jordan jordan hall to see these performance and it was just it was a great time but during that time the proving ground we still had to stay and stick to the script a little heated with me i guess he really really felt that i forgot and i did forget and here's this guy he's going to use me on a gig and he's not using me you're going to do me like we need so him and earl bostic nephew rodman bostic who's a trumpet player had been playing together and rahman called me for for this gig and i had no idea that it's it's maybe it's a dream but it's a vision because artists play a very important part of in our world and what i find is that the arts are just totally watered down i want to bring the arts from all nationalities all world vision that's what i'm looking at because it is art they are all the artist i want to bring it from the cyberspace as well we know guys that can go slowly and tell you everything and have it musically intact you see solace that's strong and a lot of that stuff is just was with we went all over the world and i was you know and so when i would find these when the show was over i'd try and find jazz clubs wherever i could kuala lumpur and yeah and you know not just you might think you'd see one in bangkok a little you know a little off the wall places and there'd be a jazz club there and you'd go and sit in and you know  europe too i found out that jazz is like except for the united states is considered a major music in the world in a major art form i think it now you know