Brian was a very gifted musician. He also drew the most amazing cartoons during math class (or was it Spanish class?). For some reason, there was a clavichord (being stored for someone) in the tiny house where I lived during high school, in addition to the resident Steinway upright piano in my bedroom. Brian would come over after school and play them both. What an amazing treat. He was an irrepressibly talented but tortured genius. One of a kind.

Brian Klarman was a brilliant musician. He was a "must see" in the jazz community of Boston when he was in school, he played at Windows on the World in New York, and toured with various jazz ensembles. I once played a tape of Brian improvising on a tune that I was about to record with Larry Coryell, and Larry called him "the reincarnation of Art Tatum." Brian recorded on my Bluenote CD "Common Planet" in 1992 and played amazing stuff on "At the Airport" from that record. Brian suffered from acute OCD, and other mental difficulties which eventually took over his life. He was paralyzed from the chest down for the last few years of his life, and Charlie Karp and I used to go over to visit him and pay our respects at least twice a year at his house in Fairfield, CT. He was a musician that we both deeply admired.