This displayed a remarkable ability to make the audience bob their heads along to the beat. After soliciting requests from the audience, he started off into three of them amidst nods and claps of appreciation from the audience. Gene Bertoncini was born in New York City in a year which he disclosed but forbade to be printed. It is a great thing to be good at something enough to spend the rest of your life doing it. He listed some of his musical influences as Benny Goodman, Lena Horne, and Tony Bennet, several of which he has played with.
Jazz has it's own vocabulary, it's own dialect.
At this point he grasped me by the shoulder and spoke. It wouldn't be right for me to say I disliked something. He was soft spoken man, but the fire of intensity gleamed brightly behind his eyes.