Tony,
Thanks big time after not hearing from you for awhile it was nice to have touch again. Glad you enjoyed the work. I think as always the journey is ever changing for me and hopefully along with that always getting better as well. I'm also pleased that you are hearing some of the more subtle nuances that I have included in some of the cuts that I put there for those like you who listen closely.

Something that has always stuck with me from my earlier years as a canvas painter and hanging out with other painters as well is this....I was looking at an abstract watercolor of another artists work and we were discussing it. I asked him why he was painting abstract instead of realism, his reply was, " with abstract things they never get old, every time I look at it I can see a new painting, whereas with realism after I see it once, I get it and it will be the same each time I visit it." I thought a ring of truth to it and it gave me a new perspective on viewing works like that.

In some way I hope my work at least partially reflects that thought process, unexpected and new with each visit, but most especially on the first listen, because it is not formula cookie mold sort of composition.

To me also the ultimate compliment is the one you make here with "Tibetan Gold" that it evokes an emotion or memory in you, through the listening experience.....it doesn't get any better than that from my perspective.
Terry

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jam on,
Terry http://imjazzed.homestead.com/Index.html



[This message has been edited by trtjazz (edited 10-26-2003).]