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Cartoons That Never Saw The Light of Day
Over the years, I have also enjoyed a secondary career as illustrator and graphic artist/cartoonist. At one point, I decided to try my hand at a syndicated strip. I put two different ones together and sent them off to all of the big syndicates...but alas, they were entirely lacking in taste (and I suppose they wanted to actually make money or something!) so, they sent them back.

And now by popular demand (of a small cadre of elite, yet oh so hip people of high intelligence and extraordinarily good taste), the first of the series will be published! (on this site anyway).

So, here is "Quiddit" The concept was 'anything goes'...sort of a "Far Side" in multiple panels. Enjoy!

The JazzED Cover
Here is a shot of the cover where the good folks at JazzEd Magazine had the incredible good taste of featuring yours truly!

Photo Gallery
CD art: Denis Dale
PR shots: Denis Dale
Candid Excalibur Session Shots: Carmen Wiest
Candid Clinic Shots throughout the site: Blake Buettner

Photos From the Excalibur Session
Here are some shots (candid, and not-so-candid) from the Excalibur recording session, August: 2005. They were taken by my wife Carmen, and by Mike Williams and Scott Pollard.

Back in The Day...
Here are some shots from the recent...and NOT so recent past featuring myself and some of my dear friends (and some famous guys that I wish I had gotten to know better! they are as follows:
1. Me and J.J.! UNT 1988
2. Me and Snooky Young. 1999 with Doc's Band
3. LR: Doug Webb, John Bambridge, Bobby Militello, Ernie Tack (as "The Flea") Conte Candoli, Tom DiLibero, Denny Tribuzzi: all with Doc
4. Me, Ed sargent and Den DiBlasio on the road cuttin up
5. Me and Den DiBlasio
6. Matt Ingman, Mike Bogle, Bill Watrous (WATERous) and me in D.C.
7. Me and Mike Brecker in 1984
8. Performing with the UNT 1:00 in Australia, 1986
9. Trying to crack up a Brit in 1998
10. Dancing in front of the White House with Matt Ingman 1988
11. My very first group (garage band!) in 1974: "The Tampa Tokin' Hero Band"

Where Excalibur Was Written
I had the great good fortune of working on Excalibur in an actual "woodshed" in our backyard. So, when I say "I need to shed that...", I mean it! Here are a couple of shots of the rugged work environment that brought forth the bone from the stone.

Hal Leonard Ad
This was an ad that I did for the very hip Hal Leonard Jazz Play Along Series (which I highly recommend!).