Your new album is called Electric Bass Guitar Vol. 1. How did it come about? I hadn’t recorded a full-length solo CD since my Plays Oscar Pettiford CD in 2006. In 2007, I left New York City and returned to my home in Laredo, Texas. My mom was feeling ill, so I decided to come home and spend some time with her. She grew slightly more and more ill as time passed. She was eventually diagnosed with an incurable disease: progressive supranuclear palsy (the same disease that took Dudley Moore). It was extremely difficult watching her fade away slowly, day-to-day. She passed away in December of 2011. Before I knew it, it was 2012, and life had finally caught up to me. I had a sweet job teaching...
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