I’ve been so fortunate to have experienced many “pinch me” moments in my career so far. Recently, this came in the form of being asked to spend a week working at the Kennedy Center. I first met Rootstock Republic in 2019 through Monique Brooks-Roberts, who I met through Daniel Bowen (see yesterday’s post). Rootstock, along… read more
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I’m lucky in that it feels like everyone I work with in the studio is a friend. But in the case of Daniel Bowen, we literally grew up together. Daniel is an accomplished band leader, composer, arranger, and executive and artistic director of a very impressive and important non-profit called Symphony 21, whose mission is… read more
rocking & swing
I haven’t posted here since December. Yikes! Well, thought I’d begin the catch up process with an explanation of what I did over the winter. While it was cold out (sorta mild actually), I was holed up in the studio with Rob Hyman and Eric Bazilian of The Hooters. We worked in secret on the… read more
the christmas market
In the midst of holiday chaos, my band just snuck out a little Christmas EP. With a deadline looming that turns the EP into a pumpkin (or yule log?) on December 26th, we had to work fast and furiously (I mean merrily) to complete it. This afforded us no time to overthink or over-experiment in… read more