Welcome to Dot Trombone!

I must admit that I'm more of a computer programmer now than a jazz trombonist. I've pretty much just been doing programming since 2002. As I become more established as a programmer, I think I'm going to start spending my free time doing music again. Programming is making me a much better living than music did. I've been updating my recording studio this last year. I almost started on an ambitious Flash music mixing project, but in doing a project for Fablevision, I learned that Flash has not entirely fixed it's audio problems. So instead of spending a lot of my free time making that project, I think I'm going to get into recording some experimental jazz trombone and see where that leads.

This site is being built as a "best of" presentation. You will find nearly 3 hours of music as mp3s here. The virtual trombone is new. I'm going to have Jack Quinby record a new sound set for it and I'm going to hire a band to play some back up tracks and turn it into a game.

I would love to hear from all my friends! You Navy people are pretty hard to get ahold of. Being back in Portland, I've connected with a couple friends from high school, but there are so many more of you that I'd love to hear from. Just writing a 10 minute email once a year would make me so happy. I heard from Mark McConnell! On my contact page, you can send me an email without going anywhere else!

Just click on Jazz or Techno to hear the music. I had a lot of fun playing with Spencer Powell before I left the Navy. The tracks are a little repetitive, but they are live and groovy. We had some interesting polyrhythmic grooves going on that didn't get recorded. I would be so fun to play with Spencer again.