When I moved to San Francisco to do my undergraduate work at San Francisco State College in the mid 60's, I lived in the Haight/Ashbury, discovered electric guitar, and joined a Rock and Roll band (A Cast of Thousands). The band was successful locally and were even negotiating a record deal when I left for Canada.

After I moved to Canada to do my graduate work, I continued to play in bands and later when I taught college, my teaching partner (Steve Good) and I developed a system of using music to reinforce our classroom instruction. We were invited to Tennessee to mentor classroom instructors in our system.

Now that I am retired and fully devoted to my Buddhist practice, music has become an integral part of my training.

I will try and use this section of the site to share some of my playing, share my insights about 'music dharma', and generally have a good time.

Gassho, Bill Jensen

NOTE: To avoid the YouTube link defaulting to theYoutube online menu, I have put the videos on 'repeat'. When a video is over, it will start again. Just tap on it when it is finished and it will stop.

This is my short version of Dave Brubeck's 'Take Five'

Here I am doing some improvising over Big Bill Broonsy's 'Hey, Hey, Hey'.

This is a video from my Bluegrass Banjo days. It is a traditional tune - John Hardy

This is a video made by the last bluegrass band that I played with. I am playing banjo and singing lead.