I'll be playing with Tom Baker's Triptet on June 26 at Lucid in the U-District in Seattle. It's their CD release party -- should be fun!

I'll be on the Composers' Salon on July 1 at the Good Shepherd Center, playing a great piece by Stuart Wheeler.

On Saturday July 30, I'll be playing Neil Welch's Sleeper at the Jones Theater. We're recording this super cool piece on June 25 -- it's a great mix of chamber music & improvisation. Right up my alley.

On Saturday August 6, I'll be playing a new piece by composer Christian Asplund, at the Good Shepherd Center, with Christian and percussionist Greg Campbell.

My group Crosstalk has some music on a SoundCloud page.

My newest album Vertigo has been out since November! It is available at CDBaby, via Present Sounds!

Here's the cover:

More info on the music and the album here.

Other news:

Andrew Boscardin's Zubatto Syndicate CD is out! I sadly had to miss the CD release party and I will sadly miss the Earshot 2nd Century concert -- but check it out on July 21 -- it'll be a great concert.

Tom Baker's second opera, or operatorio, as he prefers to call it, will also be released later this year. It's 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:

Tom Varner's album Heaven and Hell is out on Omnitone. Great material, and some rave reviews are coming in!

The newest album from the Tom Baker Quartet, 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 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."