I will attempt to describe my musical background in a few different ways in order to efficiently convey the many sides of myself. The first is as if I didn’t have a lot of time to explain and if we were in a real life, semi passing conversation: basically I consider myself an church reject Emo Jazz Boi saved by the love of Jazz Fusion & Alternative rock. It gives a good quick way into quickly wondering what I could mean by this which is that: I did not grow up playing music in church. My father plays bass and my family was very active in church, but my whole life I wanted to play guitar and by high school, bass naturally fell into my life in an academic studious jazz educational way <due to the high school I attended in Astoria, Queens, founded by Tony Bennett (Rip)> & whilst finding out about the jazz world; I continued practicing song writing and exploring different kinds of sounds with my continued independent guitar study. Mostly through the vessels of Jazz Fusion, alternative/indie/emo/math rock, Japanese rock, Djent, Jazz (proper), with a tinge of RnB n soul and funk and gospel via my parents. <In that order!>

Now in terms of my playing style. That’s a fun question because I sometimes find it difficult to place myself in one given sound playing wise. Having played in my own bands but also playing with a LOT of other people…It’s super interesting because I get to reinforce those principles I grew up with (sub)consciously while playing other peoples songs. I love low end in the bass. Like reallllly love the low end. I love catchy bass lines. I love when they punch hard and their presence is felt. I love slap bass too! And even a teeeeeny bit of tapping. And I absolutely LOVE a good driving bass line. When it comes to my own music I definitely take a more unrestrained approach in those regards. I’ll keep all of those things in my head but try to make them my own. Like literally my own. Mixing slap bass with emo rock isn’t unheard of at this point but to me it’s about a few things: Is this audience member or listener or mostly me (at first) going to go “ooo what was that” upon hearing it? Or smile a bit during their run up Riverside park? Will it absolutely smack super hard in hand with the drums? And when it does, is there also something in the cut deep back there that’s pushing these sounds to the front of the cage of the listeners mind? Can I shred on this? Should I shred on this? Will it be pointless?

I don’t know…sometimes it’s a lot lol. But! I will say for sure I aim to be hyper-identifiable in my sound as an artist, bassist and musician everytime I go to work on something whether it’s in the studio or on the stage: it’s fun discovering and reinforcing my own sound. I guess that wasn’t really a short way of describing it, but in a way it kind of is! haha