"I studied and worked on my playing on my own for most of my 20's. Then I studied with George Shearing in New York in 1980 and with JoAnne Brackeen in 1981. But the real work I did happened with Don Haas in the San Francisco Bay Area. I studied with Don for the better part of...
“Before I left home in the spring of 1789,” he wrote to Arthur Young, “I had improved that species of my stock so much as to get 5-1/4 lbs of Wool as the average of the fleeces of my whole flock,–and at the last shearing they did not yield me 2-1/2 lbs.–By procuring...
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