Favorite Colors: Deep Purple, Lavendar, and Blue

Favorite Flower: Tulips

Favorite Singers: There are several, but the top 4 are:
1) Sarah Vaughan. Her sound was incredible, and I think she had alot of brass (meaning nerve).
2) Barbara Streisand. Streisand has pure heart and determination that allows her to sing like there's no tomorrow....just because she wants to.
3) Dianne Reeves. I like her because she's being and doing "her" and because she has excellent musicianship.
4) Oleta Adams. Man! She's got heart and passion, a huge voice that shows her huge heart, and originality.

The others that I love and they are definitely on my list are Jill Scott (okay, yeah. i guess i kinda look like her), Dinah Washinton, Billie Holiday, Chaka Khan, Carmen McRae, Mel Torme, Carmen Lundy, Al Jarreau.

Favorite People: People who are open-minded and unafraid to look at themselves and laugh laugh laugh! Funny people. Free people. My nephew William. My aunt Wilhelmina.

Favorite Place to Play: Hmm..... anyplace with a good piano, great sound equipment, and an excellent sound person!

Favorite Movies: The Color Purple, Funny Girl, The Prince of Tides, Babe.

Favorite Song: Anything that enlights and that moves the spirit.

Favorite Saying: SHUT UP!

Favorite Peace Bringing Activity: Meditation and chanting. Noticing God in every circumstance.

Favorite Styles of Music: Good. Swinging. Moving. Deep.

Favorite Moods: Laughing until my sides ache. Being quiet when it's raining. Crying when something moves me deeply.

Favorite Day of the Week: Thursday. Thursday is "date night".

Favorite Jazz CD: Miles Davis' Kind of Blue.

What I Love About My Life: That I know to go to the source - and how to go.

Favorite People to Play Music With: People who play the truth of their experiences - and who feel deeply and are passionate.

Favorite IceCream: Rocky Road.

Favorite Years: Freshman Year in College. I was finally away from home and "on my own" .... or so I thought - and in the Tuskegee University marching and concert bands. I was a Crimson Piper! I'd made it past the auditions and the pledge period and I was in! It was one of the best and most fun years of my life. The other favorite year is the year jazz discovered me. I was performing in a local jazz festival in Washington D.C. and competing for a scholarship. While at the venue over that weekend, I had my first experience of feeling directly connected to God through having performed and bathed in jazz music and the jazz musicians culture. Everything and everyone looked and felt so 'hip'. I remember getting down on my knees the evening after everything was over and thanking God for bringing me to the place that I was supposed to be. I just kept saying "Thank You! Thank You!" over and over again.

Favorite Sounds: Hearing my mother sing my name when she calls me - there is such joy in her being. Hearing the sounds of Silence. Children giggling.

Favorite Sights: Seeing a new snowfall cover everything and bury it in silence. Watching my mother laugh and have a good time. A clear day.