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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DownBeat Magazine featured a nice article about the October 11th Trumpet Summit: Honoring Roy Hargrove here at Western Michigan University. Five outstanding trumpeters — Jon Faddis, Freddie Hendrix, Corey Wilkes, Maurice Brown, and Ashlin Parker — came to campus to celebrate Roy’s music and legacy. We performed several of Roy’s compositions, including “Nothing Serious,” “Natural […]
Kalamazoo’s Second Wave Media wrote a really nice article about our Jazz in the Crawlspace series in a recent article by Mark Wedel. Mark beautifully captured the vibe of our recent sold-out performance with Grammy-nominated saxophonist Jimmy Greene. One of my favorite lines was that the night felt like “a New York jazz club, but […]
We’re super-excited that the 2025-2026 series at the Crawlspace Theatre here in downtown Kalamazoo is underway! My good friend, Keith Hall, and I partnered with Dann Sytsma to create a monthly series of concerts in a listening room here in town. We are so grateful to the John Stites Jazz Awards for funding our series […]
I’ve added some PDF downloads to my online store. You’ll find arrangements and original compositions from my recordings. A lot of these charts are the same ones we used in the studio (well, maybe cleaned up just a bit so they look a little more professional for you). Visit the new area on my site […]
Don’t forget to add A Tri-Fi Christmas to your holiday playlist. 12 seasonal classics done up in a fun and swinging way. DownBeat Magazine put it on their roundup of the best holiday jazz albums: “This tight-knit trio turns tired chestnuts into launchpads of improvisation. On the menu are songs you’ve heard a million times, […]
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 […]
