Great Concert with Caito Marcondes

It was so, so very nice to get back to my 'bassoon roots' on this tour. As this blog is linked somewhat to my www.jazzbassoon.com site there hasn't been much discussion of that instrument here. In 1998-a really long time
ago it seems-I was working on a new age bassoon album with violinist Tracy Silverman of Turtle Island and Jim Brickman fame.
At Tracy's house I met Caito. He was there playing with Tracy on something and there was a jam one night at the house. Cynthia came along and somewhere we have a photo of me playing a drum and Cynthia playing a shaker or something. I had a mustache and goatee-it was THAT long ago back in the 90's. Caito and I really wanted to get another chance to play-in 2000 I almost went down to Brazil to do just that but I got called to tour with Bela Fleck. So-we finally got the chance to do a set
of mainly original music that Caito wrote-but we also improvised some tunes as well. It was a great evening that really meant something to me and Caito-that we could get together because of my gig with Cirque and share some special sounds. Some
Cirque people came down and really made it even more special. We did this on my off day Monday Oct 2nd. I wish we could play some more-we're talking about Rio this fall and then the US this year. Caito sings, plays drums and xylophone all at the same time. And he's got a great sense of humor too. Our Cirque physiologist Brad Ferinhough took some really awesome pictures that may end up here soon. He's really an incredible photographer and I'm looking forward to seeing a sample here.