Last year, after our performance at the Jazz Impression Concert presented by South Florida Jazz at the Rose & Alfred Miniaci Performing Arts Center, Carol and I came up with the idea of recording something similar to what we had presented there with a quartet before a wonderful audience. The song list was based on the 2007 CD and included some tunes that appear on this Li¡ e Ci¡/Here and There CD. Then, during my visit to Rio in December 2009, we went into a studio and recorded the songs for the new CD with several great Brazilian musicians as if we were performing live. I feel that's the very best way to play music, and that's what we've done on La e Ca. On the other hand, during recent years I've been focusing my work on phrasing, especially Brazilian phrasing, and it has become a passion and even a teaching subject during classes with my music students.