MOOOOO

It was pleasure playing with Anne & her friends at Jelopy theatre, Brooklyn tonight.

I have been feeling that I always want to be open to any kind of music.
Honestly, I consider myself as a pop musician these days.
Jazz used to be pop music & it is not now. (no offense to jazz cats…)
So why not playing pop music that people are actually listening to it right now.

Or, I really don’t care & don’t know what pop music is.
Probably, whatever comes naturally is good, either it’s pop or not.

Anyways, I love music scene in SF – Brooklyn & would like to perform & contribute more

Title: 3+5 (composed by Takahiro Morooka)

Title: Martinesque (composed by Mike Weiser)

I loved this piece. I’m at the corner of right above if you can see…

The harmonic concept of this composition was amazing & this can be apply for any improvisation of any kinds of music.

I actually start using the Major 3rd sequence in my jazz improvisation after playing this piece (3rd mov).

You can hear the same kind of concept from “bhept100 with Bruce McKinnon” on Thomas Morgan’s myspace.

This tonality is very interesting.

This is a jam session for creative music.

Place: Yippie Museum Cafe, 9 Bleecker Street, New York, NY 10012, between Bowery and Elizabeth (East Village, out of 6 or BDFV train at Bleecker stop.)
Time:Oct 31st 8-10pm

w/ Steven Ruel, Kevin Shea and special guest artists including you!

We are about to play Bartok

Huge crowded audiences

Benjamin Pierre Lewis on Trumpet, Victor Sawyer on Trombone, Will Dougherty on Keyboard, Micah Lewis on Drums, Takahiro Morooka on Bass

12 Tones Blues: Composed by Takahiro Morooka

Not Yet: Composed by Dan Weiss

The band is sounding great after playing several month together. We will be performing the old standards to contemporary jazz compositions by Duke Ellington, Cannonball Adderley, David Binney and more.

Trombone: Anthony Williams, Piano: Justin Cockerham, Drums: Jeremy D. Warren, Bass: Me.

This was a great gig at Cotton Museum in Memphis, TN. The place was in the middle of downtown Memphis, right next to the Tennessee River.

This rhythm section was directly from Southern Comfort Jazz Orchestra & we were used to play together. So many interesting things happened since it was a small group & there was not too many restrictions compared with big band.

We had a lot of audiences this night & enjoyed playing. I liked the duo thing I did with Ant. He has a lot of ideas making music interesting.