Trio Tour 2024 Notes
Photo by Noah Philipose (May 2024 at Sear Sound) – graphic by me via the magic of Canva I have not booked a series of dates for my trio outside of NYC since 2019. The last time I traveled with my bandmates, it was to Beijing in May 2019 to play a string of dates and then record the trio and quartet music that would form The Sustain of Memory , which we managed to release that same November. A major reason for not venturing beyond NYC these past few years is logistics: it's a lot of steps to book dates and coordinate travel and figure out remuneration, and having played weekly at Lowlands from September 2021 through this past July relieved me of the need to find playing opportunities elsewhere when I could just walk a few blocks and dive into music with my friends. But I think there's still value in trying to get out of my immediate environs to play, which is to play live for people who might connect with what we're exploring musically and to make some sort of a creat