Hello Fred,

Thanks for sending me this pair of learning jazz books. Our corporate headquarters are at:

317 - 109th Ave SE
Bellevue, WA 98004 US

(I spend so much time at Notation Software that I live there also.)

I'll take a look at the books to see whether I might need the crutch of the record for Vol 2, which I probably will.

My piano teacher would never play anything for me, even though she was capable, because she wanted me to explore on my own. That's probably a great way to help a kid learn to love playing the piano. It's a different question as to whether that is a great way to help a kid to learn to play the piano well. In my case, though, my teacher probably had the right plan. I might have learned to play the piano better at my age level, but then I would have quit at a young age because I would not have loved to play the piano, as I still do now 40+ years later.

Cheers
-- Mark