Week 3 at IAR: The Casual Sextet
Since 2000 I’ve written a number of pieces that aren’t the usual “lead sheet” type of jazz tune. I formed The Casual Sextet to perform these compositions. We’ve been playing …
Week 2 at IAR: Recording with the Calvosa Sullivan Project
I’ve been co-writing songs with my good friend and former Manhattan School of Music classmate Kat Calvosa for the past 2 years. This has been an incredibly educational experience for …
Hermeto Pascoal yesterday at Lincoln Center
Man…I go through the everyday drudgery that can be life in NYC, and then I experience something that totally validates why I live here. Yesterday I got to see one …
Excellent article about musicians developing business skills
A quick note about this article I just came across: “Musicians add business skills to repertoire” It’s very cool, and a sign o’ the times, that artists developing entrepreneurial skills …
Recording at The Institute of Audio Research, Week 1
This past Monday I had the first of my four weeks worth of recording sessions at The Institute of Audio Research (IAR). They have this really cool program that’s basically …
The next Bjorkestra show…The Falcon, August 20
I got my sights set on next month, with July rapidly coming to a close and no more performances until August (Next week at Spike Hill with my new trio …
Saturday Night in NYC: Yutaka Uchida Quartet at Hirai Mong
This evening I had the pleasure of checking out my friend and former Anti-Elevator Mission cohort Yutaka Uchida’s band at this great Korean restaurant on St. Mark’s in the East …
Week in review
I just ran into Henry Threadgill at this little wine/pastry shop next door to my girlfriend’s place in the East Village. I met him a while back when he was …
NYFA Boot Camp Redux
This past weekend I completed the last session of the Artists as Entrepreneurs Boot Camp at the New York Foundation for the Arts. I learned a lot and make a …
The Identity Crisis…new videos!
My fellow co-leader in The Identity Crisis posted these videos a couple of days ago. They’re from a gig we performed in May at The Shrine in Harlem. The first …