Posted by djsunyc:

congrats man. it's like all those years smoking dope in the basement finally paid off.

I don''t have a basement.

Posted by islesfan:

Congrats buddy. That's awesome.

Not only did I read this but I plan on buying your CD to check it out for myself.

Oh and non-apology not accepted. As SC said, we need you to use that angst in your music. I'll pretty much take credit for anything at this point.

Sincerely though, congrats on the recognition, I'm sure it's very well deserved.

Thanks Isles! I hope you like it, and I'm very glad I inspired a cute little emoticon from you.

Posted by Cookdcokehop:

Congrats! Thats huge! I recently took a Jazz class in my school and now I have a better appreciation for Jazz music. 93Buick who inspired you to become a jazz musician and what type of Jazz Era you like the best? I am more of a cool jazz man (Dave Brubeck). Avante Garde sounds horrible to me.

Thanks Cooked Coke! (Go easy on that stuff BTW)
Hmm well I'm inspired by many musicians- I usually go for the individual more than the genre-
I liked Charlie Parker and Paul Desmond as a kid playing alto, but Dexter Gordon was the guy that inspired me first to switch to tenor and actually learn how to play. I loved a record of his called Our Man in Paris.
If you want to take some little steps into the Avant world try "Science Fiction" or "The Shape of Jazz to come" by Ornette Coleman. Or, go the Trane route and start with "My Favorite Things" and "Love Supreme"- after you get into those then move on to "Intersteller Space" which is Trane playing duo w drums (Rashied Ali).
Some music that didn't sound good to me changed a lot w time.
These days I listen to Coleman Hawkins a lot, who was the first great tenor player ever. I also like Indian Classical music - I listen a sitarist named Nikhil Banerjee and Ustad Amjad Ali Khan on Sarod.

93 Buick

Congrats man its great to see a person's hardwork pay off.

Posted by Bobby:

now that you ended 2007 on a happy note what do you do for an encore ?

if i know buick, i think he's going to buy mets season tix now that they signed matt wise...

Hahahaha no Buick I did not get married on Christmas Eve

Im keeping my fingers crossed

Buick I got married on Xmas eve lol and was wishing it was Bitty

Posted by King1:

Bitty are you an attorney and need clients is that why you want Zach?

Attorney that so random LOL! He's like a big cuddly bear unlike Curry who looks the mask.

Also how can any sane women turn down a face like that

Thats incredible man. I'm having an economic crisis over here so I can't quite promise to buying it, but I'll illeagally download it as soon as it becomes available as a torrent!!

Posted by Killa4luv:

Thats incredible man. I'm having an economic crisis over here so I can't quite promise to buying it, but I'll illeagally download it as soon as it becomes available as a torrent!!

When you're a jazz musician you're happy when people even know your name. Go for it.
What we really like is when people come out to gigs. I'm not afraid of people copying my CDs.
That being said, this is the first CD that I own all the mechanical rights to- I paid for it to be made and licensed it to Sunnyside, the label. So I encourage you first to steal all the older music on Fresh Sound, that I don't own the rights to beyond the basic BMI song royalties. In fact, I put up a bunch of tunes on my website you can snake right now-
http://billmchenry.com/music.html

BTW- Illegally is spelled with just one a. Like Legal- not Leagal. That's for a League. Ask any Musician.

Thanks for your post, and keeping this from becoming a Zach Randolph is so cute thread. (Although he is holding flowers, and Roses are flowers, and that's the name of my CD, so it's kind of a tie-in.)