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New Songs of Resistance: Masters Thesis Presentation

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My album, New Songs of Resistance, began as a thesis project for my Master of Music degree at the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. It was there that I researched, arranged, composed, and recorded most of the music that became the final album. Below, you can watch a video of my final presentation (June 2018) of the work from which this project emerged.

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Monk 100th Birthday at New England Conservatory

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The lights dim to almost nothing, and a velvet chord—with a touch of cayenne pepper—emerges from depths of the Steinway on stage. Next, the first four notes of Thelonious Monk’s signature “Round Midnight” are intoned, and we are transported both backward and forward.