Concerts this January-March 2009:

Friday, January 29, 2010: My group Vertigo will be playing at the Is That Jazz? Festival, at the Good Shepherd Center. We'll be sharing the bill with the stellar group drums/sax duo Bad Luck.

Saturday, January 30, 2010: Tom Baker Quartet at the Is That Jazz? Festival. We're excited to be sharing the bill with the Cuong Vu Trio.

Saturday, February 27, 2010: Vertigo at Gallery 1412.

Saturday March 13, 2010: Vertigo will be opening for LA's Crepescule Trio, at the Good Shepherd Center.

Other news:

I'm finally working on a recording I made last year (!) with Vertigo. The music is sounding great -- I'll have some audio up on this site soon. And there's more to come: I was awarded a Jack Straw Productions Artist Support Program grant to make an album with this group. We'll be going into the studio again in March 2010.

Tom Varner's album Heaven and Hell is out on Omnitone. Come to the release celebration at Good Shepherd on October 29, at the Earshot Jazz Festival!

The new album from the Tom Baker Quartet, Save, has been out since May, and sounds great. You can check it out here.

My album with William O. Smith (more info / buy it) is available on iTunes! And check out the great review in The Clarinet:

"In all of the works contained on collage/décollage, extended techniques are part of a broader musical language and vision that transcends the unusual nature of the clarinet sounds. It is a CD that should be considered a must for any collection."