Here my friends some of the new things in my live: I mentioned somewhere about some "Good Morning Headache" (just right now I had spinned the Billie Holiday album with the song !) because a long lasting marriage split up.  But then things started to happen:  On a gig, I don´t know why, I called "My Ideal" (Will I ever find the girl in my mind......? ya know the lyrics) and 2 days later BAMMMM 🤩 This here was our second date and she set down at my stage keyboard (my new place is smaller and more poorish of course then where I stayed......from high live to low life 😄.... anyway. Her name is the name of the Egyptian GOD OF SUN !!!! I like unusual people !!!! And she just sneaked my "Pharoah Sanders" T-Shirt and started to play, and ya know what, she´s not a piano player but what she figures out makes SENSE and it sounds good to me. Like little bells sounding, just beautiful, and them runs she did and then BANG that bass vamp !  She is the most beautiful girl I ever saw and the tune "Miss RA´s Choice" was written the morning "after" and will be on record !  one more, you see the Pharoah Sanders T-Shirt. By the way, since "RA" is her name, she just took my SUN RA long sleeve and said "That´s mine!"  PERIOD ! Got to order another one 😄

Grand Central Featuring Ravi Coltrane & Antoine Roney: Tenor Titans. Alfa Jazz ALCR-313 [Japan s.d.]

To get paid, for one thing.

love the cover. My new girlfried "Miss RA" to whom I dedicated a composition which will be on my next album (out early 2026) and SHE wore that kind of pantyhose on our second date (naturally at a jazz club), on that date in the night of July 1st she also came with me at home to my place and "after it" 🤩😎😄😋, SHE set down at my  piano and started to play around with some phrase which became  the basis  for that special tune !......what more can a musician wish ??????? 

Up 22 years later. Vintage has expanded in the interim! My most recent excursion was the four seasons of The Joey Bishop show, which was....a trip. 4 seasons, two networks, 3 casts, and 4(?) premises. Today's critics find it an abomination, but I watched in fascination as a lot of the old-time bit players shower up regularly and did their old-time shtick at what was rapidly becoming the end of an era.