Hello Friends

Hello Friends.  just got here. My name is Jeff Bales. I started playing sax when I was 8 or 9 in 1960 and inherited an Elkart alto from my uncle. 5 years later, I upgraded to a Bundy tenor that I played as solo tenor in every school jazz band every year and in as many rock, blues and jazz bands along with bass guitar and other instruments. My last band was a pick-up band my senior year at UNC-Chapel Hill that opened the 1974 N.C. Collegiate Jazz Festival in which I played both tenor sax and bass guitar(at different times :-). Following graduation 2 weeks later, I was a passenger in an auto accident that nearly killed me. My left side was paralyzed and thus ended my musical career... almost. I bought an Arp Pro Soloist monophonic synthesizer, intending to play bass on it, but am not really a keyboard player. The musicians I knew or played with have all moved on while I've been trying to cope with a severe disability and my other friends have moved on professionally. I sold my bass and guitar and gave away my amp that had deteriorated over the past 40 years. My sax is in great shape. I had it repadded and corked. All keys and posts are MOP and I have 3 custom mouthpieces I bought over the years. I would like to sell it. It's in great shape and I'd still be playing it if my left hand/arm weren't paralyzed. I taught sax, bass and basic piano online at the former AskMe.com, where I finished ranked #1 in Fiction, Disabilities, Instrument Instruction and 4 other music categories and was going to advise the lady here on what sax to buy her daughter when I got waylayed by all this registration foolishness. Off to look for her question again. Nice to meet you.

I know Matt Kendrick(one of the best bassists/jazz composers in the world). http://www.mattkendrick.net and played with some of the musicians in The Matt Kendrick Unit.

Online I go by tutorjb1. Please visit my groups at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/bookdoctorsandeditors and http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tutorb

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