Long time no post

I got in the habit of only posting when I had a new audio sample for you to listen to- and I guess I haven't had anything new in the last month. But it's been so long, I thought I'd let you know what I've been up to.

At work, we did the burlesque musical "Sugar Babies" for a community theater in Pennsylvania, and we just finished "Joseph and the Technicolor Dreamcoat" for a children's theater in Fresno. Productiontrax and Spiritrax are rolling right along. Still teaching a few lessons after work, but not a lot, which is nice.

I've been practicing trombone a little, going to jam sessions, having some fun. Delphine Cortez and Dennis Rowland (both well-established singers in Phoenix) have been kind enough to let me sit in with their bands, and both of them inspire me to keep practicing. But no new gigs yet.

I've started working on some big band arrangements of my vocal tunes.

I've been spending a lot of free time reading about musicians, too. I'm almost done with The Gentle Giant, Yusef Lateef's autobiography, and also almost done with Jazzwomen, a book of interviews with women jazz musicians. I hope that my life makes as much sense looking back on it as theirs do.

I finally went to a meeting of local indie filmmakers and announced myself as a composer, and I'm sure if I pursued some of the filmmakers they'd be happy to have me score their films, but I haven't. I guess I'm afraid to commit to another big project, though I know I want to get into scoring sooner or later.

Guess that's it. Hopefully I'll actually have something for y'all to listen to soon.