What’s Another Day is available NOW!! Just look it up on your favorite streaming service!
YouTube Music:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9OJ9Oa87kU&list=OLAK5uy_lP-UPo97INykBCVPa3YV4ODvL6Km0WkkE
Spotify:
https://open.spotify.com/album/59WboiOOEHSSjmfOqcw4Sr?si=U3n2hTV_Q2qpvLPufL_2Hg
Apple Music:
https://music.apple.com/us/album/whats-another-day/1869040370
The last piece of the puzzle falls into place.
A special thanks to artist Brian Connors Manke for sending me a plethora of fantastic options for album artwork! Too many for an indecisive person such as myself, so I took this opportunity to show off a few of my favorites.
You can expect to see the full album hit streaming platforms January 30, 2026. Hopefully the world still exists by then. #jazz #art #newmusic
This is a recording project that has been underway for such a long time, I’m not really even sure when it actually began. This week I finally received the masters of the full album, so here’s 5 seconds of each track to celebrate!
Some may call it a pet or passion project, but after several years of composing music for videogames and film, always writing to a particular scene or ambience and adhering to the clients’ direction, I felt it was time to write some original music for myself! This project was conceived while transcribing a number of Aretha Franklin songs to arrange for jazz combo charts. It became apparent that her Soulful style of vocal arrangement lends itself to horn sections very naturally. So with that initial spark, combined with my love of jazz, funk, and R&B, I composed 8 original tunes into a horn-heavy set that focuses on good grooves and memorable melodies. I hope you enjoy this brief preview into what is to come early 2026!
Over the weekend, my new single First Light (with producer Living Sound Delusions) became available on YouTube!
This upcoming Friday (8/19), First Light will be available for streaming or download, so you can save it on Spotify or whatever you prefer and jam it out wherever you please!
A BIG thank you to everyone who has listened and given such positive feedback, it is truly appreciated!!
I know it’s been a while since I’ve last updated the site, so I thought I’d hop on and give some insight into what’s been going on and what to look forward to in the future. Pre-2020 there were several scoring projects on the docket, just waiting for filming or development to wrap up and editing to begin. Then the infamous Covid struck and filming anything became essentially impossible and dev teams were forced to stay separated which threw a massive wrench in game development. As a result, many of those projects eventually dried up or were rescheduled to shoot at some undetermined time. In the mean time, I had an unknown amount of time with no projects on the horizon. However, despite the strangeness of that time, the silver lining was obvious to me – it meant I had plenty of time to write and work on my own projects. So for the next few months (and eventually years) I spent a lot of time writing music of my own outside the constraints of deadlines.
It also allowed time to do more collaborative recording work with other musicians in the same dilemma, as well as made plenty of room for writing new music, making plans for the future, and opened up the world of streaming live video performances. Suffice to say, Covid didn’t really slow down the music-making in our world, it merely altered the direction more toward performance and recording of personal projects. I also want to make it clear that I don’t plan to abandon the world of film or game scoring, but my involvement in projects will be more selective as I plan to continue to focus heavily on personal projects and collaborations with other musical artists.
The creative juices never stop flowing, so there’s certainly no shortage of ideas! You can expect that once one project is wrapped up, another one -or twelve – will be right behind it. Here are some of the upcoming projects I’m excited about releasing into the world in the near future, a bit about each one, and when you can expect to hear it yourself. Some projects are already completely recorded, mixed, mastered, just waiting to be duplicated and released. Meanwhile, other projects are still in the writing process and every step in between. And to learn even more about any of these projects, click here!
Dig In – Dig In is Home Grown Head’s most recent LP which explores six new originals penned by the group from 2020 onward. Looking forward to fully releasing Dig In this Fall!
Time is Now – Currently a work in progress, Time is Now will be a full-length album of jazz and soul-inspired pieces composed by yours truly. As the last compositions are beginning to wrap up, I’m super excited about this long term project finally nearing the recording phase and pushing it out into the world!
First Light – First Light is a single release collaboration that combines jazz-infused composition and trumpeting with the EDM-infused electronic production of Living Sound Delusions to create a spacey, jazzy, head-boppin’ vibe. You can expect First Light to drop this Summer!
The Local Honeys – I had the distinct pleasure of recording a little trumpet on the song Dear Woodrow on their upcoming self-titled album from Linda Stokely and Montana Hobbs, the core members of The Local Honeys. You can hear their brand new album right now!
Funky collab (as yet untitled) – This EP album is another collaboration with Living Sound Delusions which features 70’s soul-inspired grooves with a healthy dose of funky horns. This one is still in the recording phase, but you can expect to see it in the coming months!
The Aretha Franklin Project is an initiative that aims to create high quality jazz combo arrangements of Aretha Franklin’s music, which will be available to anyone across the world through Sheet Music Plus. I’m really proud of the project, because not only does it ensure Aretha’s music gets into the hands of more people, but it adds to the unfortunately small library of music written or arranged for jazz combo groups. I hope that the AF Project is merely a small step into a much larger project, to arrange and distribute even more small jazz ensemble sheet music for even more artists.
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of appearing on WRFL’s show “Bedroom Productions” with host Robbie Gay. Throughout the 1-hour show we discussed composing music for film and games, the processes involved with those, as well as recording, production, new projects, old projects, and everything in between. Features music from mobile games Bread Kittens/Puppies and Nomasaurus Rex (Bake 450), the PC game Star Trek Alien Domain: Incursion (Game Samba, CBS Interactive), and my band Home Grown Head.
You can check out the interview here:
As of last week, Remnant 13 is fully scored! All-in-all about 45 minutes worth of original cues were composed for the series. This is the largest volume of music I have composed for a single project so far! A special thanks goes out to director William David Glenn IV, who provided excellent musical direction on this – he had a precise vision of what he wanted to portray and knew exactly how to spell it out. And producer Shawn Lindsey, for providing me with this opportunity and being the glue keeping this whole thing together. Thank you!!
Remnant 13 is currently in it’s final phase of editing and soon to be in distribution, so keep your eyes peeled for some exciting news!
Scoring for Tucky Williams’ Dagger Kiss 2 has
finally begun this week, as post production on the sequel nears an end. All-in-all, about 20 cues of varying lengths will be composed over the next few weeks. Some cues will be based on pieces composed early on in the process, such as “Pillar of Strength”, whereas others will be new compositions.
“Pillar of Strength” is a character theme for Katia, who is a constant source of fierce strength and support for our hero, Arden. While Katia does not possess the magic powers that Arden does, she uses her fearlessness and mental prowess to take on her foes. The piece is bookended with a flowing oboe and string melody which takes on a feminine but strong quality. Horns and percussion take over to represent that strength, wit, and no-BS attitude that makes her a success on the battlefield.
The rest of score contains a wide gamut of styles and moods; from the pure demonic sounds of “Presence Of Evil” to the romantic mood of “By Moonlight”. To hear them all, you’ll just have to check it out for yourself! Once post production comes to a close, the film will be available on Amazon Prime, among other distributors. So keep your eyes peeled and your ears open!
Excited to compose some music for this upcoming series! Anjels of Lion City is a story-driven supernatural thriller. The project is still in the production phase, so I haven’t gotten my hands on it just yet, but I predict I’ll be playing around with a few synths in my near future…
Filming is taking place through the end of the year, and is set to release in 2018. Keep your eyes (and ears) peeled for more! 
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