MATERIAL SOUNDS: SOLOMON Z - IT’S EASIER
2025
DIRECTOR
Annual live performances in Material Institute’s recording studio.
MATERIAL SOUNDS: LB - INSOMNIA
2024
DIRECTOR
Annual live performances in Material Institute’s recording studio.
MALABAR
2022
DESIGNER
A vinyl release of James Singleton’s compositions on Sinking City Records.
Malabar marks the first time on vinyl for Singleton’s compositions, and was executed by a stellar and versatile sextet employing trumpet, electronics, guitar, vibraphone, saxophone, clarinet flute, and of course Singleton’s commanding and adventurous bass playing. At times romantic, at other moments chaotic, Singleton’s writing––and leadership––allows for the players to stretch out, but never beyond an engaging and fully engaged sense of narrative. We may not be sure exactly what the story is, but there is nothing but fierce focus in the dramatic and soulful sense with which these players execute the narrative’s implications.
FESS UP
2018
DESIGNER
A multimedia archival project featuring two-films – Fess Up, a feature-length interview with Professor Longhair, and Piano Players Rarely Ever Play Together – and a 38-page book.
Reviews:
The New Yorker
64 Parishes