I formed a new group with two great Japanese musicians, Kazufumi Tsuchimura (b) and Shin-Ichiro Kamoto (dr). We just finished our first tour of Japan and played 8-9 concerts which all went so well that we were invited back for a second tour (February 2009). I stayed at Kazufumi and his wife Hideko Kimura’s house and really had a chance to experience Japanese life style. It was two amazing weeks.