Thanks Eli. This is a very interesting and inspiring chapter. Thanks for sharing. Rebecca Thompson Flower Mound, TX Apropos of Dan Augustine's intriguing question about "jazz health," list-mates might enjoy my chapter on the "Medicine of the Tuba," published in 1999 in the book "Doctors Afield" and reprinted here: http://www.elinewberger.com/music_tuba.html