Humber Mini Recitals

Today I played on a 9am recital for my friend's class at Humber College. Returning to that stage for the first time in four years made me remember my last mini recital on this stage..........

Throughout the Fall semester at Humber College, every advanced performance class student has to perform two mini recitals of approximately twenty minutes of music in their class. When I did it the first time, I used some classmates I didn't know and did very poorly. The teacher politely suggested to me to pick up the slack or else she'd fail me. So I enlisted Craig and Dionne from the year before as well as Kibwe and Shelkah. Kibwe came highly recommended by Dionne and my ears fell in love with Shelkah from her first solo in my Advanced Improvisation class.

I was battling arthritis, tendinitis, and a separation so I really wasn't in the mood for anything heavy. I asked these guys to play and not only did they do that, they gave some guy they barely knew their best effort and we vibed our way through it. Now as of this day, I still talk to all of them. To me it was very special and I still can't thank them enough.

Here is the ending of my second mini recital of that year. Thanks guys.