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