Hey everyone,
It’s been a while and lots of things have been happening. I just finished playing a concert with Larry Harlow’s Latin Opera, “Hommy” at Lincoln Center’s Damrosch Park. We rehearsed for two days then performed yesterday. Everything was going great until it started to pour! We kept playing! Then the thunder and lightning began and everything fell apart! The show stopped and we all ran off the stage! Maybe we’ll perform it again!
Then I performed with Wallace Roney’s “Universe” orchestra playing the long,lost music that Wayne Shorter wrote for Miles. We played at the OSPAC performance space in West Orange. It was a great concert and the music was amazing! We will be performing again on August 23rd at the Charlie Parker Festival and then at the Detroit Jazz festival in September. Details will be posted on my itinerary page for both events.
This past January I recorded another straight-ahead jazz CD with Rufus Reid, Bill O’ Connell, and Winard Harper with special appearances by Wycliffe Gordon and Nancy Harms. You can hear snippets of it on my home page- front and center- on my video EPK. We recorded some originals and some standards. It was an amazing experience! What an honor to play with these guys!
In a couple of weeks I’ll be going to the National Flute Convention in Chicago to present a paper on my success story of curing Focal Dystonia. I’ll also be performing a wonderful classical piece by Pam Sklar called “Coniferous Forest” on alto flute and piccolo. Then I will perform some jazz pieces after my presentation. On Saturday August 9th I’ll be a guest artist with Lise Gilly’s group “Grupo Cha Cha” playing Charanga music. Should prove to be quite interesting moving from one type of music to the next. It’s just the way I like to roll!!
On a more personal note, I am moving inward at a beautiful pace and discovering and uncovering many aspects of myself that have been hidden for a long time. It is a time of transformation and revelation for me and although it is challenging, it has proven to be quite rewarding even with the small steps I have taken so far. I will be going to British Colombia to study with the great intuitive Carolyn Myss in October and I am really looking forward to that!I’ll keep you all posted on those developments.
Ok, my friends, that’s it for now. Gonna go chill and get ready for some family time.
Have a great summer!