• Music #1, 2, 3, 4, 5

    Some of the first recordings I did in New Orleans Some of the first recording I did in New Orleans. I arranged the Jerome Kern song “Old Man River” and recorded saxophone. One of the first Hip Hop recordings I did sax on. Made in Biever Hall Loyola Some Funk project I made with a

  • Best Laid Plans

    No need to be coy, the pandemic has been tough. That being said this week marks the beginning of a new effort to break out of the mundane every day’s the same cycle. A process that began a couple months ago, my health and wellness have been at the top of my priority list. As

  • Another Day Around

    My last post begins with an apology about the space between posts so I guess I shouldn’t again. Obviously things are as good/bad as they are during these strange and uncertain times, but music and life move forward. Works fine, started a publishing company. Music is thee comfort in quarantimes and it’s been great getting

  • Video #1

    “Hope” – Calvin the II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQqWKEjd0Rc top 100 finalist for Npr Tinydesk @calvintheii

  • Invisibility

    Apologies for the large gap in posts. Here’s the update: the conclusion of 2019 was good. Played good gigs, jammed with killer musicians (Los Angeles is great for that), made and wrote more music, even reaped the fruits of my warm-body-in-a-chair office job and visited Costa Rica for 2 weeks with a homie. January was

  • Visibility

    October came and went. Camped in Joshua Tree and made some $$$ doing some music. Not the most eventful month and I blame complacency and lack of bravery. There’s no dying patient in music and one wrong move isn’t going to kill someone. But someone can be saved. Why is it so hard to be

  • 1 year at Warner

    It’s been 1 year since I started working at WCM. Shit flies by when you smoke too much weed. Good thing I’ve mostly stopped doing that. I like my job enough to keep going for a year so that’s something. Got a raise, learned a lot, spent a lot of time there. Working has helped

  • Shhiiiiiiiiiii

    Passed my year mark living in LA. Hit my goal of not regretting it, in fact I’m happy with it. Feels like the path I’m meant to be on. Quit weed recently in an effort to improve, so far so good. Been practicing a lot and have my first song up on Spotify. This next

  • Writings #16, 17, 18, 19, 20

    I’m dreaming of a new directionfor all of us to takeso leave your worries and your baggage it can always be replacedfind something new in the day to day Every moment pushing as far away frommy past as possible Always running but never enough Let the rain Drown me outmy goal was never to reach