Music - Performance & Teaching
I'm a Sax & Woodwind player, arranger, & teacher based in NYC. In my travels I've worked all over the globe - playing concerts and festivals in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia, but one career highlight has to be playing in the remote Star Mountain highlands of Papua New Guinea 900 miles from the nearest road, at an arts festival with 30 different local tribes including Marlboro smoking mud men and (alleged) cannibals who'd never seen a saxophone.
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Check out my Bandcamp page for my most recent work, and some older work, live and in the studio; it's all here...
* My last CD/EP is just 4 tracks - short and sweet; you can listen on Spotify Apple Music, etc.
Free Ride is sort of my catchall band these days, even though I don't play live that often anymore. I’ve been working with this trio version over the last couple of years with Simon Chardiet on bass, and John Bollinger on drums. Simon is one of the hardest working musicians I know, an awesome guitarist and bassist who crosses genres with ease. And John is a one of my favorite drummers; creative and nuanced; he lays down a sweet groove. Plus the CD features incredible artwork from artist Susan Graham.
Here's some of the bands and projects I've performed, toured and/or recorded with..
Firewater
Myth Science
NYC Ska Orchestra
Pinetop Perkins
The Big Apple Circus
The Last of the International Playboys
The Brooklyn Saxophone Quartet
The Virgil Moorefield Ensemble
The Flux Quartet
Roscoe Gordon
George Kilby Junior and the Coolerators
Joe Gallant and the Illuminati Big Band
The Australian Environmental Orchestra. (New Guinea Tour)
The New York Theater Workshop
The Last of the International Playboys
A fine lounge album featuring some of my arranging and compositions. Vegas Jazz & Latin Lounge (Transcontinental Records) Led by my dear friend Walter Kuehr, who ran the Main Squeeze accordion store on the lower east side, and was leader of the famed all girl accordion orchestra - The Main Squeeze Orchestra; http://www.mainsqueezeorchestra.com/gallery.html - who I've performed with numerous times - a band of 16 women accordionists led by late, great friend of mine Walter Kuehr.
Selected performances and venues:
Irving Plaza, The Mercury Lounge, The North Sea Jazz Festival, Fez Bang on a Can, Avery Fischer Hall, The Knitting Factory, Pori Jazz Festival - Finland, Soha Arts Festival,
Merkin Hall, MOMA, Barbican Center, London, Singapore Arts Festivals, Hamumis Festival, Papua New Guinea
Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide Arts festivals, American Festival of Microtonal Music, New York Theater Workshop
LaMama, NY Microtonal Festival, PS 122, Dixon Place
La Mama Galleria, CBGB's, and Gallery 313 next door - now a Patagonia store :(, plus extensive US, Australian and world touring and club performances.
Education:Undergraduate Music Theory course; Evening Division, The Julliard School, 2014-2016
Orchestral Conducting: Vincent LaSelva. Julliard School, 2009/2010
Sydney Conservatorium of Music (now part of Sydney University) Australia. Jazz Studies, Class of 1987
I just re-released an album that was recorded quite a few years ago. It was a showcase for a set of tunes I wrote for my students - CITY STATE includes some of the finest players in NY, Check it out below, or go to Spotify...
I can be seen and heard in the movie Dummy- starring Mila Jovovitch, Adrien Brody, and Illeana Douglas. It's a comedy about a depressed suburban ventriloquist. it was a lot fun to play drums in a punk Klezmer band - especially with Mila as the lead singer. I'm also the clarinet player on the sound track with music written and produced by keyboardist and producer Paul Walfisch. Check out this clip with Mila J. on vocals, me on drums.