We had a great time last night at Cornelia Street Cafe. What a pleasure it is to play with such great musicians. I’m looking forward now to my performances with the Seguine/Baker Jazz Orchestra and my duo show with Chris Pattishall in Ann Arbor, MI. Also, you should take a minute and visit my good friend, and great drummer, Andrew Hare’s blog (http://haredrums.blogspot.com/). He has great posts about legendary drummers and other jazz figures. He gives me a shout out in a recent post about Thelonious Monk.

I’m excited to be back on the grind and getting ready for this gig on November 16th. I’ll be debuting my new band, “Caleb Curtis & The Wheelhouse Band.” I’m very excited, the guys are GREAT players. It will be Duane Eubanks on trumpet, Mike Pinto on vibraphone, Dylan Shamat on bass and Shawn Baltazor on drums. It’s at the Brooklyn Lyceum, check out more details on the calendar. Hope to see you there!

I’ve been busy this summer! Working hard with Manner Effect, including our Michigan tour, we’re checking off everything on the list so that we can get our CD out to all our fans and supporters. Also, I’ve moved back to Brooklyn, NY to the beautiful neighborhood of Prospect Lefferts Gardens and am making the most of it. It’s really nice to be back in the city full time. I’m working on my projects for the rest of this year including recording with Eric Burns’ Pointless Forest later this month, as we continue on the long road with that project. I’m excited to see what the rest of this year will bring, and way past that!

I’m excited to say that I’m graduating with my Master’s in Music degree from William Paterson University in the next couple of weeks. Here’s a video from my recent recital of an original composition:

Manner Effect will be going into the studio in a couple of weeks to record our record that was so generously funded by the public, we’re very excited.