COMPOSER ARRANGER
CONDUCTOR

As a composer:

Music from albums: MONK’estra plays John Beasley, Positootly, Cauldron, Change of Heart, Nuances, Surfacing…

TV shows: Fame, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Cheers...

As an arranger:

Big band arrangements:

  • Thelonious Monk: song list on albums: “MONK’estra Vol 1, Vol 2, MONK’estra plays John Beasley”

  • Charlie Parker: song list on album “Bird Lives” 

  • Duke Ellington: Come Sunday video, Wig Wise: video: 10:30; Hot and Bothered 39:06

  • Joey DeFrancesco: “In the Key of the Universe”

  • Chucho Valdes: “La Creacion”

  • Chick Corea: “Return to Forever”

  • Herbie Hancock: “Secrets”

  • Fado-Jazz: Maria Mendes albums “Close to Me” and “Suadade: Colors of Love”

  • African-Jazz: Somi album “Holy Room” video

  • Dianne Reeves: “Make Someone Happy” and “Sunday”

  • Blues: Ruthie Foster - video


Ensembles:

Keiko Matsui “Euphoria” video, Stanley Clarke “Vulcan”, Peter Erskine “x”, Lee Ritenour “x”

As a conductor:

Conducted Metropole Orkest, HR and SWR Big Bands (Frankfurt/Stuttgart), Latvian Jazz Orhestra, Bohusulan Big Band, Blue House Jazz Orchestra (Sweden), Knoxville Jazz Orchestra (TN), Kansas City Jazz Orchestra and school orchestras from Julliard, Manhattan School of Music, Rutgers