Perhaps ten years ago, I typed “Babylon Bleu” into an early search engine — it might not even have been Google — and got no hits. I wondered what had happened to the winner of that Keyboard Magazine talent contest, surely he must have gone on to an interesting career?

Ten years later, I try my search again — and boy, did he EVER go places. And he’s gone already, too? Not fair, as you said. I’m glad to hear that he made a life of music, though. If anyone deserved to do so, it was him.

I had never heard “Las Vegas Twister” before, but it is totally in the same class as “Babylon Bleu.” If Mr. Babylon’s estate ever considers releasing recordings of these compositions, count me among the buyers.