This is a partial list of recordings I’m on, listed roughly in order of recency. The links to the albums should all point to places for free listening, most typically Bandcamp.
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Ascendant, with Greg Sinibaldi. In 2011, Greg and I spent several days at the Dan Harpole Cistern at Fort Worden in Port Townsend, Washington, as part of a Centrum residency. This was the result.
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Crosstalk (with Tiffany Lin, piano; Brian Cobb, bass; Paul Kikuchi, drums). This album is a compilation of tracks from a live show and a session on Jack Straw‘s Sonarchy radio show on KEXP. Instrumentation is one of my favorites: clarinet, piano, bass, and drums. The music is energetic and pulsing, between moments of more abstract communication.
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Vertigo (with Chris Stover, trombone; Joann de Mars, cello, Tom Baker, guitar). Recorded in 2010, this album dwells in a space between ambient, chamber music, and jazz. It’s moody and beautiful. My first recording as “leader” (in quotes because all these things are really collaborations anyway).
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collage/decollage, with the late legendary William O. Smith. I studied with Bill for many years and owe him almost everything I know about the clarinet and music. This album features mostly commissions, heard here for the first time. It includes music by Francois Houle (another teacher to whom I am extraordinarily grateful), Tom Baker, and Bill of course, as well as my arrangement of Eric Dolphy’s Something Sweet, Something Tender.
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Save, by the Tom Baker Quartet. This was our “sophomore” release, from 2009. The playing is somewhat more restrained perhaps than our first album, and Tom’s and Brian’s tunes really shine.
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Look What I Found, by the Tom Baker Quartet. Our first album and my first time playing regularly with an “avant-jazz” band of this type. So much fun! This album generated the “tendency towards unruly improvisation” quote from Time Out NY.
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Tom Baker‘s operartorio Hunger, on the subject of Tamsen Donner’s heartbreaking journey. Features the outstanding soprano Maria Mannisto.
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Tom Baker‘s operatorio The Gospel of the Red-Hot Stars, on the subject of a woman surviving being hung for witchcraft in Puritan New England, from poetry by Margaret Atwood.
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Heaven and Hell, by the great jazz French horn virtuoso Tom Varner. The music is complex and beautiful, and the performances feature some truly world-class playing.
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A series of solo and duo free and structured improvisations with cellist Brad Hawkins. We recorded this in 2003, and then did a west coast tour in Brad’s vanagon, with stops in San Diego, Oakland
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Brian Cobb‘s phenomenal chamber suite Campfire Songs. The only through-composed work on this list, it’s a complex and rewarding listens, and probably one of the more difficult pieces of chamber music I’ve played!