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<body background="image001.gif"> <div align="center"> <p><font size="6" color="#501464">Links</font></p> </div> <p><font size="5" color="#501464">Musicians</font><font color="#501464"> - </font><font size="4" color="#501464">Links to the homepages of musicians who I play with, know, and/or love. These are just a few, and I hope to add to the list as I can.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://round-h-y.hp.infoseek.co.jp/">Hideaki Yoshioka</a> - A great pianist here in Tokyo. I used to play with him a lot, but now his son, Etham, has debuted as a bassist, and they have a family band. It's nice to see the music passing on to a new generation.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.dagmusic.com/index.shtml">Dag Music</a> - This is the website of Donna Burke and Bill Benfield, who I play with often. Donna is a lovely singer, and my inspration and idol in the narration business. Bill, aside from being a fine, soulful guitarist, is actually the smartest person I know. I try not to bug him with dumb questions about what's going on in the world....</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.brucestarkmusic.com/">Bruce Stark</a> - A fine pianist I often play with, and an even better composer. </font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www2.odn.ne.jp/cav00070/">Yoichi Kobayashi</a> - Japanese drummer, whose band is often called the "Japanese Jazz Messengers" He's one of the people I've worked with longest in Japan.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.h3.dion.ne.jp/%7echichi/">Yoshitaka Kanno</a> - A young guitarist here in Tokyo who I enjoy playing with very much. We had a great tour of Japan in fall 2003.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.neilstalnaker.com/">Neil Stalnaker</a> - Neil is a trumpeter I like to work with here in Tokyo. Beautiful cat.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.usslife.co.jp/yuri/">Yuri Dazai</a> - A fine pianist I work with here in Tokyo. I always look forward to playing with her.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www02.so-net.ne.jp/%7etrueblue/">Yoshihiro Arita</a> - As far as I know, the best banjo player in Japan. Like Django on the banjo. He also plays mandolin and guitar extremely well.</font></p> <font color="#501464"> <hr> </font> <p><font size="5" color="#501464">Bass</font><font color="#501464"> </font><font size="4" color="#501464">- links to all things bass:</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.billbentgen.com/bass/bass_player_hall_of_fame.htm">Classical bassist hall of fame</a> - Historically important classical bassists, courtesy Bill Bentgen</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.lamario.ca/">Mario Lamarre</a> - my luthier in Canada</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.contrabass.co.jp/">Takasaki bass shop</a> - my luthier in Japan</font></p> <font color="#501464"> <hr> </font> <p></p> <p><font size="5" color="#501464">Other cool links:</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://www.good-ear.com/servlet/EarTrainer">Online Ear Trainer</a> - a good site to work on your ears.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://news.google.com/">Google news</a> - If you want balanced news, you have to get it from many different sources. They're all here.</font></p> <p><font color="#501464"><a href="http://homepage1.nifty.com/live/alfie/links/jazzLinksArtists.html#Artist">Jazz links</a> - Links to Japanese jazz clubs, musicians' sites, record companies and personal pages about jazz. In Japanese only.</font></p> <p></p> <p></p> </body>