TCK #3: Alan Pasqua, Terry Trotter & Cheche Alara

The Caffeinated Keyboardist

Jeff Babko is joined by Tony Williams Lifetime/Bob Dylan/Santana alum, and current USC jazz piano professor and Steinway artist, ALAN PASQUA, jazz pianist, master accompanist (Frank Sinatra, Natalie Cole, Larry Carlton) and composer of the theme to "Everybody Loves Raymond" TERRY TROTTER, and musical director/ producer/ composer/ keyboardist CHE CHE ALARA. The fellas consume coffee and baked goods from Burbank's Coffee Commissary and discuss jazz & classical backgrounds, the current state of education and students, commercial/"creative" musical outlets, L.A. versus N.Y., Miles Davis, Tony Williams, Wynton Kelly, Bill Evans and a number of other luminary pianists and musicians, plus the climate of music and the music business today.
John Paterno recorded as usual and Samson provided the microphones, from Babko's "TudorTones Studio".