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From time to time, jazz musicians get together for "sessions," whereby we play music from "The Repertoire" (i.e. jazz standards from The Great American Songbook of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Sammy Cahn, etc., and/or jazz standards from the greats who came before us - Monk, Bird, Miles, Duke, etc.). Many times, one of us will pull out an original composition we'd like to play so that we can see if it works or not. And although these rehearsals are often in preparation for an upcoming gig, but we also like to get together to just "jam," since this art form is a collaborative one which requires humans getting together in a room to blow on wood reeds through metal instruments and bang wood on fake animal skins and round metal objects.

In the honor of this long-held tradition, we'd like to offer up a recording from a recent session that took place in my studio last month. Below is a recording of a Thelonious Monk composition, "Monk's Dream," as performed by:

Justin Flynn (tenor sax)
Mike Fahn (trombone)
Lee Metcalf (guitar)
Pete Brendler (bass)
Vinson Valega (drums)

We hope you enjoy our version of "Monk's Dream."

[note: the MP3 is rather large ---> 20mb]

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