Album Notes

Mazurka for a Modern Man was the culmination of a compositional project I completed in 2007, working with percussionist Take Toriyama, guitarist Nate Radley, trumpeter David Smith, and alto saxophonist Loren Stillman; the core of the musicians shared a broad vocabulary from ten years of playing together almost weekly: Balkan folk music, Indian tihais, drum'n'bass, electronica, rock, and of course, jazz and improvised music. We completed 14 compositions in the studio in April 2007; nine of these tracks were released on Mazurka, highlighting the contributions of Take, who passed away less than two weeks after the recording dates.