Waiting in the Wings

With Sonny Rollins at the Kennedy Center Awards Dinner

With Judi Silvano and Mona Heath at the White House

With Herbie Hancock

With Judi Silvano at Honoree Dinner

With Mona and Jimmy Heath at the White House

With Billy Drummond at the White House

Recording session for Venus at Avatar Studios. L-R Joel Frahm, Gary Versace, David Finck, Tessa, Billy Drummond, Joe Locke, Steve Kuhn. By Mary Jane Farnsworth

Dressing Room in Siberia

Backstage with Anna Guzikova et al

Blue Note Debut, April 2007

At Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, New York with my Obsession Band

With Sheila Jordan and Steve Kuhn at Kennedy Jazz Club, DC

After my concert in Palermo with lovely hand-holder, Rosana

Sweet Rhythm with Freddie Bryant and Darryl Hall by Vern Ballard

Sweet Rhythm with Darryl Hall and Lekan Babalola by Vern Ballard

with Victor Prieto at Joe's Pub, January 2, 2010

Moscow International Performing Arts Center, November 2007

Moscow Subway with percussionist Francis Silva

Catalina Bar and Grill, Los Angeles

Red Square, Moscow

Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, 2005 by Tom Terrell

Posh restaurant in Belarus in Inga's posh coat

Dizzy's Club Coca Cola, New York, 2005

Dressing room at the Blue Note, New York, 2009

With mentor Mark Murphy, New York, 2009

With Christian Howes, Francis Silva and Santi Debriano, Moscow 2007

With Billy Drummond 2010

Pizza Express, Dean Street, London, 2008

With my poster outside Pizza Express, Dean Street, London

Sheila Jordan's 77th birthday party, Sweet Rhythm, New York, 2005

With Jimmy Heath, New YORK, 2010 by author Joe Mclaren

Applauding Essiet Essiet on Blue Note gig

Tessa's week at Ronnie Scotts

Pizza on the Park with Alex Hutton, Simon Lea and Sam Burgess singing!

Pizza on the Park with Sam Burgess and Simon Lea

with Alex Hutton at Pizza on the Park, London

Yoshi's, dressing room, February 2010

Yoshi's, San Francisco, Feb 2010 Photograph by Chuck Gee

with singer/lyricist (deserves to be Dame) Norma Winstone, who wrote 'The Peacocks' lyrics

with Pharoah Sanders, Creator of the Creator Has a Master Plan

with Queva Lutz at the 55 Bar

Recording Nights of Key Largo, Day 2. With Todd Barkan, Tetsuo Hara, Romero Lubambo, Joel Frahm and Billy Drummond

Before concert in Palermo

Ekaterinburg auditorium, 2008

Ekaterinburg audience

Blue Note, April 2007 with Essiet Essiet and his beautiful daughter, Daphne

Palermo with pianist Roberto Brusca

Sweet Rhythm with Essiet Essiet and Kahlil Kwame Bell

Singing at son's wedding

Swing Journal spread on Nights of Key Largo

Tower Records, we still miss you

Bargemusic, Brooklyn duo gig with Helen Sung

Favorite ever tree

Chris' Jazz Cafe

Sound check in Samara, March 2009

Catalina Bar and Grill with Hajime Sato of Eastwind Imports, Los Angeles

with god-brother Kolton Lee backstage at QEH after Billy's gig with Carla Bley, November 2009

55 Bar with Kahlil Kwame Bell and John Hart

55 Bar with Miles Okazaki

55 Bar with Saul Rubin and Lew Soloff, August 2010

55 Bar with some of YOU

with Marvin Sewell and Kahlil Kwame Bell

with Billy Drummond and Sheila Jordan

with babysis Fatima and friend Katherine Ehrling

Being interviewed with a translator for Minsk Radio

Belarus Beauties, in their own t-shirts!

Belarus State Theater Concert

Belarus State Theater Concert poster

Belarus State Theater dressing room

Grafitti Club with Apple Tea

Outside Belarus Academy of Music

Vocal masterclass at Belarus State Academy of Music

with Inga Bukhvalova by Apple Tea van

Sound check at Belarus State Theater

Run through at Belarus State Theater

Blue Note, August 2009 with Victor Prieto, Gary Wang, Jason Ennis and Conor Meehan

At a falcon convention

By poster with Richie Goods and Daniel Kramer, 2008

Catalina with Hamilton Price, Joe La Barbera and Jason Ennis at Catalina Bar and Grill

Civilisation in Moscow after 12 days training it across Siberia

Cleopatra's Needle by Richard Conde

Cornelia Street Cafe with Ugonna Okegwo. By Vern Ballard

Couture cat in Tokyo

Dizzy's, Women in Jazz 2005, with Kahlil Kwame Bell

Ekaterinburg poster

Elvis dancers in the park, Tokyo

Front door of Tessa's apartment in Tokyo, Summer 2007

Glamorous teacup on Siberian train

In San Francisco kitchen back in journalism days

Live concert photo by Richard Conde

Omsk with Richie Goods

Pizza Express, Dean Street, London

Photo by Richard Conde

Photograph by Richard Conde

Showing tonsils to festival attendees after concert in Rochester, New York, 2009

Rochester Jazz Festival 2009 w Jason Ennis, Gary Wang and Conor Meehan

Ronnie Scott's with Sam Burgess and Winston Clifford

Scottish bar in Siberia

Shiny brass plate outside UCC club

Ritz Carlton, Moscow. That bed took ten years off!

Siberian train travel, 2008. Imagine the bathroom. Actually, no ... don't!

Palermo Blue Brass Club

Smithsonian Jazz Cafe, DC, December 2007

Sound check on the road in Russia

UCC, Moscow Dec 2008

UCC, Moscow, 2010

Union of Composers Club

Union of Composers Club, Moscow

with Billy Drummond and Don Braden at TRIBECA PAC

with Dana Leong and Alex Heile at the Jazz Standard, New York

with Dana Leong and John Hart at the Jazz Standard, New York

With Don Braden at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, March 14, 2008

With Don Braden at Tribeca Performing Arts Center, March 2008

with Howard Johnson at Cornelia Street

with Joe Paice of Jazz Services, UK and producer Sue Edwards at Rochester Jazz Festival, 2009

with John Hart at Jazz Standard, July 2006

with John Hart in Duo at the 55

With Martini, Tokyo

with Richie Goods and Oleg Buttman in Siberia somewhere

Jazz Bakery with Larry Koonse, Ryan McGillicuddy and Jason Harnell

with Sheila Cooper at 55 Bar

with Stuart Hall

with TK Blue at Cornelia Street Cafe

With Philip Woo, Tokyo, in the hot, steamy summer of 2007

wtih Darryl Hall at Cornelia Street. By Vern Ballard