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