09/15/2011: “Playing duo bass reeds w Paul Beaudry at BJ Worked today on original song: The you that I know, for next recordings, on tenor. Work on posture and softer reed. I need to exercise and build more muscle, to be able to keep on playing all those instruments without hurting myself (hearnia, heart…) First day in a while without heat and humidity in NYC. I’m sometime worried that drugs and gun violence is getting worse where we live in Harlem.”