High Flying Criminals
An R&B, soul and funk project based in Brevard, North Carolina. I play keys. It is the most fun I have on a stage, and the band is full of people who are better than me, which is the correct way to be in a band.
Odd Meters
A jazz fusion duo with Jon Morrow, who plays a custom Novax eight-string hybrid guitar. Two people, odd time signatures, and a lot of room to get it wrong in interesting ways.
Why it belongs on this site
Playing with other people is the clearest version of a thing I keep running into everywhere else. You cannot think your way to a groove. You have to listen harder than you play, leave space, and trust that somebody else is going to fill it. Teaching is like that. So is running a studio.
Before any of the bands I spent about a decade as an audio engineer, which is where I learned that most of a good sound is decisions made long before anyone hits record.