Also with Chaise Lounge....we played the Barns at Wolf Trap, The Hamilton in Wash DC. Chris' Jazz Club in Philadelphia and Blues alley. Recently returned from a performance with the Central Wisconsin Symphony Orchestra conducted by Patrick Miles. Great time!

Ellington Festival at the Strathmore with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra. We played two concerts for this series. one with Brian Stokes Mitchell. what a terrific singer. Ellington/Strayhorn tunes. Many of the arrangements were done by my good friend and master musician Scott Silbert. 

also ellington's sacred music....SJMO with the Morgan State University choir. Beautiful. Deep.

Spent a weekend playing the Washington DC Mardis Gras party with Dave Wright's "Wright Touch" Big Band and New Orlean's own Ronnie Kole. Talk about a party!

Also a new recording is available from Chaise Lounge. "insomnia" is available at chaiseloungenation.com  I think it's our best yet. available of course as a CD....but you can also buy the LP version! Worth the price just for the cover! Some terrific music. Great stories. Check it out!

been playing some swinging small group jobs...duos with guitarist Steve Abshire and pianist Robert Redd. nice performance with Stephanie Nakasian, Hod O'Brien, Veronica Swift, Chuck Redd and Paul Langosch recently.

Will be performing for the Charlottesville Jazz Society MArch 20th and concert with Great guitarist vince Lewis on April 3. Arena Stage later this year and Music Man.

More to come!

With the music business like it is I'm doubly glad to be booked.  Eight shows a week. 

Fortunately I will be able to be released for some very special performances.
I will be with Urbie Green (one at the Deerhead Inn and with him once again in September at the COTA (celebration of the arts) festival in Delaware Water Gap.
Will be with the Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra for a couple short tours in September; one to Florida and one to Kentucky. 
I'll also be playing a concert in Staunton VA with jazz guitarist Vince Lewis.
Still making room in my schedule for selected students. We have a large studio now that is ideal for rehearsals, lessons and some recording. 

Currently at work with final mixing of a project that has been "in the can" for much too long. 

The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, the orchestra in-residence at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, will perform several special concerts while on tour in Russia May 19-24. These concerts, featuring music by jazz greats Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Benny Carter and Benny Goodman, will be held at various concert halls in several Russian cities, including the Moscow International House of Music, the Kazan State Conservatory, the Philharmonic Hall in Samara and the Spaso House, the residence of American ambassadors in Moscow.

This tour is not the first time the SJMO has reached out to audiences beyond the United States. In 2008, the orchestra performed several concerts throughout Egypt as part of the “Jazz on the Nile” tour. The Russian tour is intended to bring Russian and American citizens together through the appreciation of jazz as a unique American genre. The tour bridges cultures and promotes the shared values of freedom, cultural diversity, innovation, individuality and creative collaboration.

Charlie Young, professor of music at Howard University and lead alto saxophonist, will stand in for SJMO Maestro David  Baker as conductor for the tour. Two tap/swing dancers, Chester Whitmore and Erica Chipman, will accompany the 13-piece big band. Incorporating dance with big-band jazz is truly an American offering that the orchestra hopes will be a new experience for its Russian audiences. Young and the orchestra will select pieces by composers such as  Goodman whose work is already known in Russia from his tour there in the 1960s.

The orchestra also will lead a master class at the Ipolitov Music School and a jam session with Russian musicians at a local jazz club after the performance at the Kazan State Conservatory.