It's about time this page got updated!

The big recent news is that I've relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area, as of fall 2010. And, even bigger than that, my son Henry was born in November. Hence I've been taking a bit of a hiatus. Things are slowly but surely picking back up again, and I'll some more music to share in the near future.

In the meantime, I'm working on the finishing touches of Crosstalk's album, a compilation of two live performances from 2010. Some of this material can be found at our SoundCloud page.

In addition, just before I moved away from the Puget Sound area, I had a brief residency at Centrum in Port Townsend, Washington, with Greg Sinibaldi. We did some recording in the Dan Harpole cistern, a two-million gallon concrete cylinder, originally built as an emergency water supply storage for soldiers stationed at Fort Worden. It's an incredible space -- 40 full countable seconds of reverb, very good to clarinets. We came up with some fantastic music. Here's a video of us playing a piece Greg wrote, called Not Forever, Just For Now:

At some point all our cistern material will be mixed & released. Stay tuned.

My album Vertigo has been out for more than a year now (time flies!). It is available at eMusic, iTunes, and at CDBaby, via Present Sounds!

More info on the music and the album here.

Other recording info :

Neil Welch's fantastic piece Sleeper is out on the Seattle label Tables and Chairs.

Andrew Boscardin's Zubatto Syndicate album is out on both vinyl and CD. I sadly had to miss the CD release party and I will miss playing with this group.

Tom Baker's recording of his most recent operatorio is fantastic. The piece is called Hunger -- it's a very moving portrait of the last days of Tamsen Donner, of the famous Donner party.

Other tidbits, no longer "news" but things I'm still proud of and happy about:

Tom Varner's album Heaven and Hell has been out on Omnitone for a while now. Great material, and some rave reviews are coming in!

Tom Baker Quartet's Save has been out since May 2009, and sounds great. You can check it out here. Here's part of a review from Peter Walton at Earshot Jazz:

"With SAVE the Tom Baker Quartet presents its complex vocabulary and musical logic while offering what is at times a transcendent musical experience. This release is a reminder of the enormous creativity and skill of these (to me) under-appreciated Seattle artists."

My album with William O. Smith (more info / buy it) is available on iTunes and eMusic! 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."