Recent Press for Life After Life

A profile of me appeared in this month's (April 2016) edition of Downbeat Magazine. Bill Meyer (Chicago Reader, Downbeat, Dusted Magazine) called Life After Life "... an extraordinary debut." You can read the profile here.

New York jazz writer David R. Adler included Life After Life in his Top Ten jazz releases for March 2016. I'm honored that Life After Life was included alongside recordings by some of my favorite musicians - Ralph Alessi, Marc Copland, Herlin Riley and Dan Weiss. David's blog is Lerterland. He teaches jazz history at the Aaron Copland School of Music (Queens College - CUNY) and writes for JazzTimes, The Village Voice, Stereophile, and The New York City Jazz Records amongst others.

Troy Collins gave Life After Life 4.5/5 stars in All About Jazz. He had some very complimentary words to say about my drumming and the music on the recording. You can read his thoughtful review here.

I really enjoyed Bill Meyer's recent review in Dusted Magazine. Regarding "Seeds of Doubt", one of the pieces on Life After Life, Bill described it as "... a world where Jimmy Guiffre and Augustus Pablo could sit down and work up a tune together." Yes, that's what I'm talking about! 

Life After Life - CD Release Today

I'm very happy to announce that my debut CD as a composer and leader, "Life After Life" is being released today by Allos Documents (Chicago, IL). This is a very exciting project for me, and involves the wonderful contributions of clarinetist James Falzone, cellist Leanne Zacharias, and bassist/engineer Don Benedictson. Ben Davis's work palimpsest II appears on the cover and in the design.

Physical copies of "Life After Life" are available through Allos Documents. Digital downloads are available through Bandcamp, iTunes and Amazon. Streaming on Spotify.

A profile of me and the music on this recording (written by Bill Meyer) will be appearing in the April 2016 edition of Downbeat Magazine. I really enjoyed a recent article by Bill in the Chicago Reader about the annual Winter Solstice Concerts organized by drummer/percussionists Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang.

Best wishes!

Life After Life - CD Release Feb 2

CD cover art: palimpsest II by Ben Davis

I'm very excited to announce the upcoming Feb 2 release of my CD "Life After Life" on the Allos Documents label based in Chicago. This is my debut recording as a composer and leader, and features James Falzone (clarinet), Leanne Zacharias (cello) and Don Benedictson (bass). Tim Schuler has written a beautiful profile about the recording which you can read about here. Physical and digital pre-orders of "Life After Life" are available via through Allos Documents and Bandcamp. Digital sales on iTunes will be available starting Feb 2. Hope you enjoy this music!