Collab:: Sulah Jordan "The Sweetest Gift"
The second installation of some collaborations with my friend Sulah Jordan and company. This song is a rendition of Sade’s “The Sweetest Gift" I was invited to perform tenor saxophone solos. If you haven’t checked her first EP “Lady Bug”, you can find it on Spotify or at Bandcamp. Enjoy.
Stranger Sounds: Curated Playlists from Around the World
Over the past few years I have curated over a dozen Spotify playlists for ASME Award winning travel and literary magazine Strangers Guide. Each one has been a deep and profound musical journey into the city, state, country or region covered in each issue. Enjoy.
A few years back, Strangers Guide magazine invited me onto their Editorial Board. Among other things editorial including research, story ideas, and connecting writers with story editors, I curate the Stranger Sounds Spotify music playlists for each issue.
Each issue is about either a region, a country, a US state, or a city which presents a unique and formidable challenge. Where to begin? How broad or deep should I go, knowing that far more great music will be left out than can be included? With this in mind, I asked myself “what artists, songs, and styles—famous or unknown—serve to collectively form to the soundtrack of that place or the myth of it, what do I personally dig, what is available on the streaming platform, and what is the middle ground between these worlds.
I hope you enjoy listening to these as much as I enjoyed researching and curating them.
On tour with Antibalas worldwide in 2019
On tour across North America, Europe and beyond with Antibalas, celebrating 20 years of making music together.
We’ll be performing in the US, Canada, Western Europe this spring. See the map and itinerary below for the updated schedule: