*bump*

Is this some sort of trap for me?

Yes, a sandbox trap.

I saw a guitar player the other day and then I was looking inside some books he wrote at Amazon and it was dedicated to his teacher, Ted.

SANDTRAP NOOOOOOOO (sinks into sand)

Who was the guitar player you saw?

Tom Dempsey.

I had a feeling. He subbed as my teacher sometimes when Ted was ill. Decent guy.

Maybe mods should google-proof that? IDK

Because you said he was decent?

Recently learned that some of Ted’s other students were Kevin Eubanks and Peter Bernstein

Gilad Hekselman—going to be a big deal?

Trying to avoid that guy, but maybe I’m confusing him with a similarly named percussionist

I saw Gilad Hekselman once with Sam Yahel. I thought he was good — his main strength was that he was dynamic and exciting, which is something not a lot of jazz guitarists are (I think I saw a George Benson video where he talked about how guitarists get stuck playing in one or two positions, and you have to use the whole fretboard in a more striking way to create excitement — he did that).