Liquid Soul Photos

Ajax and MCB prepare for a little four-wheelin’ in Madarao.

View from the stage at the Newport Jazz Festival at Madarao (Japan), August 2000.

Ron Haynes and MCB at the “Here’s the Deal” CD-release party, Metro, Chicago, Apr. 29, 2000 (Photo by Mike Rosley).

Tommy Sanchez at the “Here’s the Deal” CD-release party, Metro, Chicago, Apr. 29, 2000 (Photo by Mike Rosley).

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It was a beautiful day and a great crowd at the Music Midtown Festival in Atlanta (May 2000). Too bad we couldn’t stay longer.

MCB and Rick and someone’s head … somewhere!

Mars and Tom at the Iowa City Jazz Fest, July 1999. (Photo by Ziggy Zerang.)

Mars and Ron in a jam session with Clarence Banks of the Count Basie Orchestra.

Mars gets ’em going at the Quebec City Jazz Festival, July 1998.

A chrome-domed Tommy Sanchez at the Music Midtown Fest, Atlanta.

Tommy tears it up at the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, May 2000.

MCB in Central Park.

Johnny Showtime, blowing hard and getting a good look at himself. (Tralf, Buffalo, N.Y., April 2000.)

“Here’s the Deal” CD-release party, Metro, Chicago, Apr. 29, 2000 (Photo by Mike Rosley).

MCB gets a lift at a Cornell University frat party (April 2000).

They gave us these cool jackets in Madarao, and we just had to try them on.

“Here’s the Deal” CD-release party, Metro, Chicago, Apr. 29, 2000 (Photo by Mike Rosley).

MCB revs up the crowd in Madarao, Japan, August 2000.

“Sweat ’til you bleed!” Ron making a rare rap performance at the Double Door, Labor Day weekend, 1999.

Stirring up rhythms at Peabody’s Downunder, Cleveland, spring 2000.

DJ Eddie Mills and Tommy Sanchez *literally* burn up the stage at Mulligan’s in Richmond, Va. (April 2000).

Mars in Denver, summer 1999 (photo by Jabare).

On stage in Central Park, New York City, while opening for Sting and Cheb Mami (Sept. 2000).