This month I'll be providing musical accompaniment at the Sunday afternoon Jazz Vespers services at St. Peter's in midtown Manhattan. These hour-long services take place on Sundays at 5 p.m. (July 10, July 17, July 24, July 31). If you're out of town, you can watch the services on YouTube here: https://www.saintpeters.org/stream and more information can be found at https://www.saintpeters.org/events I've been attending Jazz Vespers services, Lunchtime jazz concerts, and memorial services for …
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Another COVID Casualty
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 …