| It's nice to see someone mention Tony's playing. He's a great player who definitely deserves wider recognition. He's able to get way inside the music and lays a DEEP groove in any music he's involved in.
I've had the good fortune to get to know him well over the last 10 yrs., after studying with him for a couple of years. Lessons with him were a whole day affair of hanging out playing and talking music, with a nice meal in there somewhere (he's a damn good cook too).
His playing with Liebman is on a really high level, considering the challenge of dealing w/ Lieb's harmonic and rhythmic conception where alot of the tunes have altered/stacked chords, and are in odd time or have odd-time sections. A bunch a composed-through stuff to keep on track of too.
He's played with some other greats of this region of Pa. like Phil Woods, Bill Goodwin. He's spent the last 10 yrs as Liebman's bass player.
I guess the best thing I could say about him is that as great of a musician that he is, he's a better person, very humble and all about the music. | 
