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Greetings and Salutations dear mailing list of my dear family of listeners and supporters,Since we are all essentially family and yes, cousins of some sorts spinning around on a pile of dirt on this wack-a-doodle planet, all bonded together more than ever by the constant virus and viral news, I thought I better get off my butt and get you some updates that aren’t second hand.How are you all doing?I am good. Busy learning, listening, writing, parenting, practicing, teaching, recording, gardening, running, yoga-ing and more.Yes, in the this incredible time, I have a new job. My former life as a…

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(March-April 2020) Listen to Blind Lemon Jefferson ‘How long?’ Hello dear family,  That may sound strange, but now, we are truly all related more than ever. Blood or no blood. Related through isolation, related through screens, related through news, related through sickness and health, related through joyful online reunions (now that we have more time to settle) and related through headphone and speaker sounds that never seem to end. I have procrastinated on this letter for awhile, mostly because there is not much I can really say to help any of us truly make sense of this time. We are all…

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Hello dear friends, family and fans, My oh my, how the minutes, days and months fly by…. I have been beyond blessed to have had so many incredible projects on my plate these days and would be remiss to not reflect and share the riches of my  adventures with you all while giving a heads up to a few upcoming events. After a wonderful Christmas break with the NY/Montreal family and some quality down time at  home, it’s back on the balancing trail teaching, playing and traveling. The New Year began with a great night of music making at the…

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Hello lovely friends, fans, and family, It’s been an incredible summer run filled with quality family time, sparkling jazz camp energies and general great all-round music making. I feel more fortunate than ever to have been surrounded by inspiring young music-futures as well as sharing the bill and the teaching arena with so many of my wonderful peers. I’ve done my best to keep track of all of the concerts and events and am sharing a few photos below.  From the all-star youngsters backstage at Dizzy’s who make up the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth Orchestra to the night of…

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Dear sound and event followers, Hello from Chicago where I’ll be playing tonight, Friday, June 7th, with Jon Faddis at the Symphony Center!  I’ve finally found a moment to regroup, re-cap and update before my summer of camps and camping begin. What an amazing spring this has been! I started April with a bang! Recording with the John Daversa for an extremely exciting and important new project, the Suffragists, highlighting music from the suffragist movement. More on that later! From playing  So What with Ravi Coltrane, Christian McBride, Jimmy Cobb and more, at the JazzHouse Kids Fundraiser in NYC, to…

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For those of us in the Northeast, we might even be get some true Spring weather in the next few weeks. Although my iPhone weather says snow on friday, definitely an April Fools joke. As the winter wanes and the warmer weather amps up, so does my schedule. No time for gardening just yet…Tonight, I am at Dizzy’s with the William Patterson Big band, tomorrow in the studio with Grammy winning John Daversa and his exciting Sufferagette Project featuring a host of exciting musicians. Then it’s off to Akron, Ohio to play with Chris Coles and the Kent State folks….

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