UGH UGH UGH. Today's concert with my group Lioness™ has been canceled due to COVID. Can't believe it's been almost two years since this started. Can't believe we're still dealing with this. Stay safe, everyone. …
The 20th Anniversary of the am4
My very first NYC quartet turns 20 this year. On September 11, 2001, we all know the world changed. One of my responses to the attacks of September 11 was to do what Leonard Bernstein says one must do when something violent and horrific happens: “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before.” Earlier that year I had attended a three-week jazz workshop at the Banff Centre for the Arts. Tenor saxophonist Jason Gillenwater …
442 Days.
On Saturday, May 29, at 3 p.m., I will have my first public performance since March 12, 2020, when NYC shut down because of the pandemic. It will have been 442 days since I played a gig in public. I've been fortunate in that I was able to play four times during the pandemic: once with my Glitter Quartet, once with my collective Lioness™, and twice with baritone saxophonist Lauren Sevian because we had been quarantining like mad and getting tested for Covid and wore masks and played …
