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If you're not doing something no one's ever done before then what are you doing?

Music

Saxophone, jazz, and recording.

Improvisation is composing something that has never existed, in front of people, in real time. Ten years of saxophone, jazz ensemble, and recording trained that, plus self-taught drums, trumpet, and voice. The strongest proof is live: auditions, charts, section sound, and rooms where timing matters.

The lineage, on file at the Library of Congress

Charlie Parker playing alto saxophone with Tommy Potter, Miles Davis, and Max Roach at the Three Deuces, New York
Charlie Parker at the Three DeucesWilliam P. Gottlieb. ca. August 1947. Library of Congress, William P. Gottlieb Collection.Bird on alto, Miles beside him. Improvisation is composing in public, in real time. Nobody did it like Parker.
Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie performing together at the Downbeat club, New York
Parker and Gillespie at the DownbeatWilliam P. Gottlieb. ca. 1947. Library of Congress, William P. Gottlieb Collection.Bird and Dizzy on one stage. The whole language of the music changed in rooms like this.
52nd Street in New York at night, neon jazz club signs glowing
52nd StreetWilliam P. Gottlieb. ca. July 1948. Library of Congress, William P. Gottlieb Collection.Every neon sign is a room where somebody played what had never been played.
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Performances

  • Alto Saxophonist, Purdue AMRE. Second highest of seven Purdue jazz bands. Placed by excerpt and improv audition.
  • Biweekly jazz standards sets at the Purdue Memorial Union
  • First Chair, South Brunswick High School Wind Ensemble
  • Alto Saxophonist, South Brunswick High School 6:30 Jazz Band
  • Alto Saxophone Section Leader, marching band

Recognitions

  • Selected Alto Saxophonist, Music For All National Concert Band Festival
  • Tri-M Music Honor Society

Production

  • Logic Pro for recording and arranging
  • Composition and transcription
  • MuseScore for scores and lead sheets
  • Home recording and basic sound engineering
  • Self-teaching drums, trumpet, and voice

Hardware

  • PreSonus StudioLive 12c
  • Shure SM57 and SM58