Sep 17, 2021 | Musical Theater, Television
The pandemic caused Broadway to close down and all of us playing shows wondered when we could return. In September of 2021, some of the shows started reopening and The Tonight Show had Broadway Week, where they closed the show each night with a live performance from...
May 14, 2020 | Solo Performance, Song, Uncategorized
2020 started off with many plans. Only a few of those came to be. But as all my performances and recording sessions cancelled, I found ways to create my own plans. The December before 2020, my wife left the country, to spend the holidays with her family. I had a...
May 2, 2018 | Solo Performance, Video
Toro Mata is a traditional Afro-Peruvian piece. I was constantly coming up with new ideas, for the arrangement. This one might help, with some explaining. Intro Many live performances of Peruvian music begin with a guitar cadenza. I used that...
Apr 27, 2018 | Musical Theater, Video
I worked with the National Endowment for the Arts, on a very special project. Students competed with their musical theater compositions. Winners had the opportunity to travel to NYC and work with a team of Broadway professionals, to produce a live...
Apr 27, 2018 | Musical Theater, Video
This is one of two projects I did with the National Endowment for the Arts. Eliza and Braxton were high school students that competed and won the opportunity to travel to NYC and work with a team to produce one of their musical theater...
Mar 7, 2018 | Jazz, Solo Performance, Video
With my newest bass a months old, I decided to take time to focus on my slap technique. I wanted to challenge myself to play a jazz tune all slap. In my practice sessions, I also slapped the improvised solo. But this take, that was my favorite, had...
Feb 4, 2018 | Solo Performance, Video
Here’s the first episode and the first recording on my new fretless bass. I wanted to create a project, that would give me a focus for practicing on the new bass. The more I got into it, I also found other goals. I started listening to the...
Nov 30, 2017 | Gospel, Musical Theater, Video
This groove has a good bump and, as with all the BIV arrangements, the entire piece is so fun, inspiring and infectious. I improvised a lot on this one, and didn’t realize how it would effect the video. There’s some cool playing, that...
Jun 1, 2017 | Gospel, Musical Theater, Video
So fun! I started playing Wicked the Musical on Broadway in 2016 and BIV coincidently was working on an arrangement of Defying Gravity, at the same time. In live shows, we performed the piece as a bigger production. Drum set, electric bass and guitar, keyboards and...
Apr 10, 2017 | Gospel, Musical Theater, Video
Six incredibly talented vocalists from Broadway Inspirational Voices sing this standard in the classic jazz style, freshened up just the way BIV always does. The arrangement and performance are...
