On August 1st and 2nd of 2018 I experienced the joy of recording with Jim Ridl, Dean Johnson, Tim Horner and my very special guest artist on four tracks, Joe Locke. These extraordinary musicians and dear friends (along with engineer Chris Sulit) shared their boundless talent and love in realizing one of the greatest dreams of my life, the making of “Simple Life”.

Today I’m thrilled to announce that the Album is now available in all the stores. For all my European friends the album is available on all the digital platforms and the CD will be available in the stores on November 15 2019.

The idea was born by my dad who always said, “This whole thing (life) is about common sense, and sometimes the hardest thing about living- is just to live-without complicating things”. I learn more each day that sometimes you just have to let life come to you.

The album is eclectic in both song and treatment and includes music by Lennon and McCartney, Dylan, Fred Neil, Sonny Rollins, Ray Nobel, Harold Arlen, Duke Ellington, Jerome Kern and couple of my originals. Though eclectic, there’s a beautiful continuity with this sensitive and cohesive ensemble who interpret and lift my arrangements to heights far from the written page. We all share in the framing and telling of the story and when it’s time to burn, we do. The CD closes with “Livin’ in the Wrong Time”. ” A song I wrote 25 years ago and yet, regrettably, remains relevant. I hope it soon serves as a marker of an ancient time too inconceivable to comprehend, when a broken union derailed and found itself turning away from a natural course aimed toward enlightenment.