While not every special moment can be captured, the following is a selection of noteworthy points in time when someone thankfully had a camera.
with Tom Edgar, Mel Goot, Bob Allison, Isaac Lausell, and Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Advent Jazz Vespers, Epiphany Lutheran Church, Carbondale, Illinois, December 2024. Previous services on Facebook.
with Bob Allison, Isaac Lausell, Dick Kelley, and Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Smooth Jazz on the River Festival, Fort Defiance State Park, Cairo, Illinois, 2021
with Isaac Lausell, Dick Kelley, Bob Allison, Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society Concert, Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, Illinois, 2018
with Isaac Lausell, Dick Kelley, Bob Allison, Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society Concert, Unitarian Fellowship, Carbondale, Illinois, 2018
with Mel Goot, Isaac Lausel, Dick Kelley, Bob Allison, and Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Spring Concert l, Brews Brothers Taproom, Murphysboro, Illinois, 2017
with Mel Goot, Isaac Lausell, Dick Kelley, Bob Allison, and Jimmy Beers; the New Arts Jazztet, Spring Concert, School of Music, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Illinois, 2015
from their self-titled 2014 release on Ropeadope Records. Spare Parts is a Chicago-based instrumental trio that pushes well beyond the jazz funk spectrum in which it thrives. Driven by vintage keyboards (Kevin Kozol), electric bass (Colin Scott), and drums (Mike Bruno), Spare Parts recalls the aesthetics of the analog era through a fresh and modern approach. The group first formed in the Jazz Combos course at SIU that Phil Brown taught.
with Mel Goot, Dick Kelley, Ron Coulter, and Bob Allison; the New Arts Jazztet, VultureFest, Rainmaker’s Garden, Makanda, Illinois, 2012
with Mel Goot, Bob Allison, Tom Hensold, and Todd Rehwoldt; the New Arts Jazz Quintet, Arts Across Illinois: CenterStage, WTTW/Channel 11, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
with Spider Saloff and the New Arts Jazz Quintet, Arts Across Illinois: CenterStage, WTTW/Channel 11, Chicago, Illinois, 2004
with Azande Cummings ’82 Jazz Junta at the Dallas Jazz Society 5th Annual Salute to Duke Ellington
Venetian Room, Fairmont Hotel, Dallas, Texas, 1982. Full playlist available on YouTube