"Closer To The Shore" is a solo improvised piano recording I made on June 25, 1982, at the Royal Alberta Museum in Edmonton, Alberta. The piano was a Yamaha concert grand, and the engineer was my good friend Doug Maynard, who recorded it on a Nagra reel-to-reel tape recorder. Unfortunately, the original reels are lost, and this is a reproduction of playback from a cassette.

Listening to the playing after so many years, I have an appreciation for "young hands" with loads of technique and excitement as new ideas and challenges popped up.