| most recently I have had the honor and joy of playing alongside:
miniJ: Takahiro Morooka & Mike Weiser
moraine: Dennis Rea, Alicia Allen, Ruth Davidson, and Kevin Millard. diverse stunning committed. Lyrically adept; textural and textual gymnasts.
James Whiton & the Downtown Apostles, featuring the oceanic & immense James Whiton, John Fricke (compassionate wide sound w/ blisters!) bill patton (able to evoke great terrors, melancholy, empty spaces... and be funny?!)
Dr Fleek's Army of Experimental Children: JimDeJoie, AliciaAllen, DavePascal - Dark funk impressed with booze and bacon.
Iron Kim Style:Thadeus Brophy (angular as broken glass) Bill Jones (customarily tears great swaths!) Dennis Rea (raconteur; w/ left lyrical leanings) Ryan Berg (DEATHBASS!!!)
mostly in the past:
Deadly Dangerous Dastardly Duo w/ the lovely Nate Distelhorst: a man of unyielding inquisitiveness coupled with, and guided by, an immense heart.
highrize: so many members... whoa...
aXoLotL: filligreed spiderworks - bill horist; luminous lyricism - dennis rea; roundhouse kicks - ryan berg
the brothers of max catharsis: Joe Messer & Ryan Farris - for practicing 3x a week for 9yrs! accomplishment in itself! as true friends, even brothers. disagreeable even! -but I learned when to, and when not to, compromise (or started to...) Most importantly I came to value the conversion of the ugly impulse into the beautiful.
and the root of it all: Los Hermanos De Jazz (sometimes Lagotic Hamacratic Dado Jesuits): the root of the root of it! geoff escandon, brian "nutmeg" redfern, Aaron Shorr, omar Ramirez, drew fogg, and remember Todd Hill and Marco Zirino! | 
