Grew up in North Carolina. At age 14 switched career paths from basketball to guitar. 1990-94 went to UNC for "Journalism", played in bands, transcribed jazz solos. 1994-1998 stayed in Chapel Hill playing gigs and transcribing jazz solos. 1998 got dragged to NYC by then-girlfriend. 1998-Present playing jazz in NYC and all over the world with people like Kate McGarry, Luciana Souza, Peter Eldridge, MOSS (Kate, Lu, Peter, Theo Bleckmann, Lauren Kinhan, Ben Monder, Ben Wittman and Tim Lefevre), Donny McCaslin, Gary Versace, Clarence Penn, Reuben Rogers, Greg Hutchinson, Sean Smith, John Ellis, Otis Brown III, Steve Cardenas, Gretchen Parlato, Jo Lawry, and many others.Recorded a collection of solo acoustic guitar songs called Music For People at home around 2000-2001. You can hear some of it on the player up there and you can check it out in full at cdbaby .
Some recent recordings I've been featured on are:
Kate McGarry - "The Target" (Palmetto) 2007
Jo Lawry - "Jo Lawry" 2007
MOSS - "???" (Sunnyside) 2008
Jack Donahue - "Small Blue Thing" (Yellow Dog) 2007
Amanda Baisinger- "Short Songs" 2006
Kate McGarry - "Mercy Streets" (Palmetto) 2005
Sean Smith - "Poise" (Ambient)
The Leif Arntzen Band - "TLAB" (Gwendoline)
The Leif Arntzen Band - "Channeling Chet" (Gwendoline)
Vanessa Trouble - "Too Darn Hot"
Ensemble Gergana - "Silence"
Keith Ganz/Doug Largent/Vito Lesczak Trio - "Bauchnabel" 2000
