I AM HONORED TO BE PART OF OUR MUSIC HISTORY

I am writing this today, February 23,2010 and letting all of you know how honored I am that so many of you have selected me,a composer,performing artist,drummer,percussionist,student of the art-form, to write about your music. I can hear you everytime I listen to one of your tracks. I only speak TRUTH based on my own experiences with music and being a musician myself, I know I can do so much more for your music,helping you to communicate it and helping listeners who are not artists, better understand it.

My first project has been one that I've been involved with most of my life, Marvin Bu Ga Lu Smith,his music and his life-force. Marvin and I have been friends for over 40 years. He was a teacher of mine a long,long time ago and we recorded together,played gigs with many,many people together. We as friends, have been through alot and have similar backgrounds. We have enough in common that I became qualified to represent his musical expressions in writing. It's almost like I enter inside his spirit when I'm either playing music with him or writing about what he or others are playing. I guess that's the difference between writing about something you have experienced by doing or you are simply an observer or critic and we don't need that because the person writing MUST understand the inner workings of the music and must be "A DOER"