After nine months of playing six nights a week in a city of seven million, Hangzhou's sole young and dedicated jazz guitar student found me. He invited me to Shanghai to meet his lao shi (old master/teacher), Ivan Chiwen Liao (Assistant professor in Shanghai Conservatory of Music). I was pleasantly surprised to meet an old acquaintance of yours: Bravo Elite S1176. What a great sounding guitar! We played Autumn Leaves together; he had so much volume and clarity! Here is Ivan, Zhou Ning and myself. I leave China soon and will be back in Savannah the first week of August. JACKSON EVANS (July 2012)