On 8 February, we went to jam. The following week, we released an album.

I’m still amazed!

New Haven Improvisers Collective (NHIC, pronounced “nick”) hosts a monthly showcase of free improvisation at Volume Two: Never Ending Books in New Haven’s East Rock neighborhood. A live recording was available a few days later.

Also, NHIC’s monthly workshop in January was featured in New Haven Independent (that’s me on the left side of picture, playing U-bass). Read especially if you’re wondering what is “free improvisation.”¹

https://www.newhavenindependent.org/article/nhic_jan_2024

Enjoy, but most of all, listen!

1. It’s a genre with strong roots in “Elm City,” the home of Yale University and the port where Mende slaves who, in Cuba, liberated the schooner Amistad, were imprisoned here in 1839 and ultimately won their freedom.