Recent gigs and ongoing projects:
Many Colors Of A Woman Jazz Festival
Joe Fonda Group at The Buttonwood Tree
Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffee Repertory Big Band
Connecticut Commission On Culture And Tourism Concert, Bruyette Auditorium
Ricky Alfonso Group, Brass Bell Tales at The Buttonwood Tree
Genevieve Rose Big Band
Featured artist with the Tommy Devino Band at The Red Door Cafe
Ricky Alfonso Quartet, Greater Hartford Festival Of Jazz
Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffe Big Band, Williams College;
Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffe Big Band, Hartford Atheneum Auditorium.
Bill Lowe/Andy Jaffe Big Band, Acton Jazz Cafe
Baby Grand Jazz Series, Hartford Public Library
Equipment:
Monette B935 circa 1995
Monette Prana Cornet 900 circa 2012 
Vincent Bach Strad ML 37 circa 1962.
Mouthpieces:
Monette STC 3 Prana Adam Rappa 4,
Monette STC 3 B4S (Lew Solloff model)
Monette STC1 B4S used on conventional equipment.
Preferred performance mic is a vintage AT C300 large diaphragm.
The Four Degrees Of Hippness
By Johnny Eaton, piano player.
4. The fourth degree is when you don’t know, but you don’t know that you don’t know.
3. The third degree is when you don’t know, but you know that you don’t know.
2. The second degree is when you know, but you don’t know that you know.
1. The first degree of course, is when you know, and you know that you know.
"Less blah blah, more ta ta"
Victor Paz, trumpet player.
Home page photos by Kenneth Combs.
