Tricks of Light! Released and doing WELL!

In all the hullabaloo and craziness in the months of November and December, I neglected to keep my avid blog readers (you're out there, right?) up to date with the cd release.

Tricks of Light was released by PJCE Records on December 18 and is available for purchase HERE.

We've received some great reviews:
Review by Brett Campbell from Oregon Arts Watch
​Review by Parker Hall from Willamette Week
​Preview by Rob Cullivan from the Portland Tribune

PJCE released an awesome Podcast interview that features the stories behind some of the music.

Tricks of Light was featured on BandCamp's homepage for one day as an "up and coming" album.

I was featured in the Spokesman Review and I was interviewed on the morning news in Spokane! ​

The album was featured in the Oregon Music Magazine as one of the top albums of 2015! (below, left)
And Kerry Politzer wrote a nice preview of the cd and the release parties for the Jazz Scene Magazine (a publication by the Jazz Society of Oregon) (below, right)

I was chosen as the December 2015 Musician of the Month in the Jazz Scene Magazine and Rita Rega (with the Jazz Society of Oregon) interviewed me and wrote an amazing piece on me and my musical story. The interview also means I won the Jack Rosenburg Memorial Award. (see images below) 

On top of all of this, I directed my first 4th Grade Music Program on the same night that the Navy Commodores Jazz Band performed my piece, Cyan Thread at the Midwest Clinic in Chicago. (Cyan Thread won the 2015 National Band Association Young Jazz Composer's Contest.) And just two days after that, the band and I embarked on a mini-tour for our CD release parties. The audiences were packed and the band was swingin'. Below is a slideshow of photos by Jesse Tinsley from the CD release show in Spokane at the Big Dipper.

THANK YOU for all of your support throughout this project. Be sure to pick up a copy of the album, and HAPPY NEW YEAR!