Every once in a while, it can be pretty fun to indulge in a bit of nostalgia and look through some of my old files . . . and look what popped up:

This is a live recording from my SHAPE International Band days of a NATO Jazz Orchestra concert, featuring yours truly on trombone solo. I don’t remember where or when it was. This recording, being live, and sounding like a feed off a sound board, is of course chock full of warts, made worse by the sound engineer obviously using our first tune to set sound levels (you can hear him adjusting as the tune progresses) . . . but we had a pretty darn good band, and in my humble opinion the composition turned out pretty well. This was originally written for Jim Finlayson, a trombonist and friend I knew before I joined the military back in the 2000s.