gratitude for some upcoming gigs

I hope this finds you all well and enjoying time with family (if in the US and celebrating Thanksgiving).  A quick note that I am looking forward to 2 private gigs, one this Saturday at Berkeley high school with the Getback and another in mid-December at Genentech.  I will be playing tenor and soprano saxes [...]

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meets the Getback crew

I feel fortunate to have met a vocalist with the Getback, a local Bay Area outfit, and have now joined their horn section.  I have been heavily digging their rhythmic poetry and tunes, some of which you can sample here.  I look forward to carving some funky horn lines with this group, contributing some compositions, [...]

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recordings posted

I’ve reposted some older recordings on this tab of the same name.  Formerly these were on my old site.  Please take a listen.  I look forward to new recording projects in the coming months and posting new content.

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time for a refresher

After more silence on this blog, I’ve decided I need to simplify and focus.  I’m going to refocus the blog on my musical activities for the foreseeable future.  One reason I haven’t been posting is that my previous posts, especially the somewhat more analytical ones, required an hour or two each to prepare when it [...]

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Acting in the present moment as your own observer :: jumping from A Thousand Splendid Suns

I’m learning how many artists and thinkers extol the concept of “observing one’s actions from a state of inner calm”. Right now, I’m writing a lot, and reading Khaled Hosseini’s A Thousand Splendid Suns. After learning more about Afghanistan’s recent history and Hosseini’s bio, I found this passage from his latest blog post:
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