My path has taken me from the stages of the Grand Ole Opry and David Letterman Show to jazz clubs and festivals across the country. Now I'm pursuing a more personal artistic direction—exploring melodic drumming as a solo practice and improvised music through Counterparts, a piano and drums duo with John Funkhouser.
The solo work draws from African polyrhythms, blues stories, jazz conversation, Bach's counterpoint and fugues, minimalist repetition, hip-hop intensity, and metal resistance. It all goes into a blender and comes out as something else—melodic explorations that exist somewhere between all of these worlds.
This creative path explores the space between structure and improvisation, where melody emerges from rhythm and silence carries as much weight as sound. Always learning, always a work in progress.