My new trio album of original trio music is now available on vinyl or as 96K download – or stream it everywhere you listen to music.
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One of the great perks of my teaching job here at Western Michigan University is the faculty I work with every day. My colleagues in the jazz area are some world-class musicians and I’m so excited about this recording project we just released as a faculty ensemble. It’s a project featuring some amazing original music […]
My trio’s recent performance at Merriman’s Playhouse will be broadcast on Monday evening on Dawn Burns‘ show “The Sauce Live” on wvpe.org. Dawn and I also chatted a bit for a quick interview that will be included in the broadcast. Tune in on April 22, 2024 @ 7pm to hear the live broadcast (or look […]
A performance with my trio from last year is going to be broadcast on the award-winning Live at the Bop Stop podcast. They’ve been broadcasting select performances from the venue and our show from March 2023 will be available in their upcoming episode scheduled for Monday March 18th. The set features my good friends Carlo DeRosa (bass) and […]
We’ve got another concert in the works for our Jazz in the Crawlspace series. This time it’s a whole band of super-exciting musicians from NYC. Spin Cycle is on tour in the Midwest and we worked out a stop in Kalamazoo. They’re out presenting the music from their recent album “Spin Cycle 3” – a […]
I recently did a solo piano performance and discussed connections and similarities between the surrealist art movement and the development of jazz improvisation as part of a wonderful exhibition at the Flint Institute of Arts called Beyond Dreams: Surrealism and Its Manifestations. The exhibition featured well-known artists like Salvador Dalí, Joan Miro, and Leonora Carrington, […]
I’m excited to be working with Jazz in the Crawlspace again to bring one of my favorite vocalists to Kalamazoo. I loved working with Emily Braden in NYC, and I look forward to playing with her in Chicago at the end of the month – BUT, we managed to get her to stop by Kalamazoo […]
