"I've been trying to find a way for the terror and the beauty to live together in one song." -Sonny Sharrock

This song, Way it Goes, (odh original) forms the second part of a diptych with my other recent song, Storming Woman. They were both written around the same time, and both under the influence of early ZZ Top (and other things). They book-end…

by Bruce Springsteen

Something that I intend to develop more at some point, but was going through things from a month or so ago and kind of liked this little version

A big band arrangement I made from a Roland Kirk tune. This was recorded a few years ago.

A string arrangement of a jazz standard. This "recording" is exported straight from Finale, so the quality is not great.

Just a duet with a Piano player and myself on one of my favorite Ballads, by my favorite composer and bass player, Charles Mingus.

A fairly simple Bass Solo with Piano Accompaniment I wrote a few years back. This “recording” is exported straight from Finale, so the quality is not great.

LIFE The art of life, it lies between Hanging on and letting go I didn't ask to be alive It's the best life that I know So we are here, so let us be Adding to the gripping tale The universe can know itself As we journey on our…

THE BEST I'VE FOUND A ray of sun, an act of grace A bit of song, a smiling face Can lift me from dispair And when I'm lost in yesterday I find a kiss along the way Will bring me here from there A super moon, a darker blue A purring…