These two pictures are from March 6th 2003 at PapaBeto jazz bistro. On that weekend I played with Hector Infanzon's trio on the 6th and the 8th. We were trying out the new trio format with young, Mexican, bass player, extraordinare Ivan Barrera. He has just jumped on board the project. And since we had only done two rehearsals in this format before we headed out to Washington DC for the Americartes Festival.... We decided that it would be good to play a couple of times in front of an actual audience to get a real feel of what we were doing before we hopped on the plane. Little did we know that it was going to turn out to be two magical evenings at PapaBeto.

These were taken on March 21st 2003 by my good friend Doctor Ezequiel Lelo. This is at PapaBeto (I told you I like the place! haha!). That was the beginning of a beautiful weekend for me. I had the honour of making music for two nights in a row with two musicians that I admire and respect very deeply. Two guys that I have learned and still learn from today. I'm talking about Jerry Gonzalez (trumpet, percussion player and MD of one of N.Y's most influential bands (The Fort Apache band). And Javier Colinas bass player with Chano Dominguez plus so many other great projects from Spain and other parts of the globe.   Jerry Gonzalez is one of Hector Infanzon's all time idols. So when Jerry came into the place looking for some action I immediately called Hector on the phone and let him know who was in town and looking for trouble, haha!!  he made it to Papa Beto in under 10 minutes. So we all hop on stage and started what ended up to be a wonderful, musical journey. And to completely make my weekend, it went so well that we repeated the very next day. Only Hector wasn't there for the second jam. I now have very nice memories of that weekend. Specially because not did I only have the chance to make music with two great musicians like Jerry and Javier, but I also had thee chance to meet and hang out with two wonderful human beans. I have just made two good friends in Spain now.  Unfortunately I don't have any shots of Javier yet. But I'm looking for some else that was taking pictures on any of those evenings so I can add his picture to this site.
 

Groove Night Buenos Aires
January 23rd. 2003

It was organized by my college and good friend, Daniel Volpini with the help of the guys from the club which he is the president and founder of (Club de bateristas Argentinos).
It took place at the Centro Cultural La Garita on January 23rd, 2003
Buenos Aires, Argentina


Our host and president of the Club De Bateristas (Daniel Volpini) who also took time out to jam with us and share his musicality.


Left to right it's Ezequiel, Hernan, me, Sebastian & Fernando.
After a long night full of magic, laughter, rhythm & friendship, I guess you can say we did some serious playing by the sweat on all of us, hahahaha!!!! Now I can say that I have many friends in Argentina. And I'm not talking just about the ones in these pictures. I'm talking about all the guys that were there on that evening. I thank you all for giving me such a warm welcome. Really made me feel at home.


After many other drummers going on stage and treating us to wonderful beats solos & routings, the great Hernan Hetch, the amazing Sebastian Peyceré and I went totally crazy on a friendly but very aggressive show down. The volume was unbelievable at times. We played for over an hour and a half non stop. These guys were burning in flames!!!!! So much music, energy and good vibes were brought out that night. The whole thing finished around 3:00 AM.


The Mus man & Fernando taking us through Brasil, big time!!!!! 
BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!


Mr. Mus himself!  This is the man who owns and builds these wonderful drum kits we all played on for the night. Of course he wasn't going to resist so much temptation, haha!  He just had to sit in and play like the rest of us did.


This man is one of the great Argentinean folk music percussionist. And a wonderful person as well.



Generations making music together. Is that wonderful or what?
We even had the honour of having some of the local legends and long time teachers  come out that night.


The incredible Sebastian Peycere gave us the honour of dropping by.  Now this guy is just to much once he sits on the drums. It was really fun playing with him. We played for over one and a half hours non stop.


Daniel Piasola keeps on making us all smile with his music.

These two guys are really amazing. They not only have a great talent for music & drums. For example Gustavo (to your left) can make some of the best pizza I've ever tried. And Ezequiel (to your right) has a really good I for taking pictures. All these pictures were either taken by him or with his camera. So I thank him very much for sending these in so I could share with all of you. GRACIAS!!! Ezequiel.