Playing with New Orleans Straight Ahead at the Blue monk in 2006.Recording Wade in the Water with New Orleans Straight Ahead at Portland's Kung Fu Bakery, August 2006.Finished after a long, grueling recording session with New Orleans Straight Ahead .Press photo of the Fiction Junkies with Matt Weirs, Dan Duvall and Drew Shoals.Downtown New York City after auditioning for Jazz at Lincoln Center's The Rhythm Road, March, 2007.Taking a short nap after the audition- Mark never sleeps...After our audition at Jazz at Lincoln Center.New Orleans Straight Ahead playing at the Knitting Factory in New York City.Backing up Maurice Brown at Jimmy Mak's for the 2007 Portland Jazz Festival.With the Oregon Jazz Orchestra Octet at Jimmy Mak's.Giving a master class in Dakar, Senegal with New Orleans Straight Ahead.New Orleans Straight Ahead with local musicians in St. Louis, Senegal after our concert at the Flamingo Club.In the hotel lobby in Dakar, Senegal.With our Embassy drivers in Dakar, Senegal.Flying from the Freetown, Sierra Leone airport to the mainland in an old Soviet helicopter.Getting used to an electric bass after both Andrew's piano and my travel bass took a side trip to Ghana.="">What the electric bass looked like after I played it for 6 days.Sitting outside the hotel in Freetown, Sierra Leone.Hanging out with the Sierra Leone Refugee All-stars.Riding in the back of the van on our way back to Conakry, Guinea.Just a little reminder of Jazz at Lincoln Center.Playing at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York city with New Orleans Straight Ahead, April, 2008.Playing at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York city with New Orleans Straight Ahead, April, 2008.Playing at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York city with New Orleans Straight Ahead, April, 2008.Playing at Jazz at Lincoln Center's Dizzy's Club in New York city with New Orleans Straight Ahead, April, 2008.
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