This week the recordings I play with awesome intros are: -Nardis, by the 1980 version of the Bill Evans Trio, recorded shortly before Evans died. -Jeanine by the Dave Young Terry Promane Octet out of Toronto. -All The Things You Are, where I play a version that uses BOTH the Rachmaninoff inspired Charlie Parker intro and the original ‘verse’ introduction. -East St. Louis Toodle-o by Duke Ellington with what was described as “the perfect mysterious sounding set-up, complete with cymbal crash, for Bubber Miley’s plunger mute entrance. -A great ‘scat’ beginning of I Am What I Am by Veronica Swift. -Steve Wallace’s extended bass intro on Fishers of Men by The David Braid Sextet. In terms of extros: -Cascades by Oliver Nelson, From Blues and the Abstract Truth. -Aos Pes Da Cruz by Miles Davis and Gil Evans. And with all of them I play the whole tune….not just the beginning and ending. That way you get an