I grew up in Albany, NY and studied jazz and classical piano with Lee Shaw , Peg Delaney, Adrian Cohen, and Bill Jones. I honed my Jazz and Latin music skills by playing flute in the Alex Torres Latin Orchestra in the 80's, and piano in the Joey Thomas Big Band along with countless bar bands. These days I write music for film & TV, using my experience on clarinet, piano, organ, and flute to inform my writing, arranging and playing. Lately I enjoy collaborating with other composers around the globe to create unique mashups of jazz with hip-hop, orchestral, and R & B. I have over 160 compositions and recordings in music production libraries, and my music has been placed in many TV shows and films around the world. For more information about licensing my music, please use the Contact page.
Jul 7, 2025
I tried branching out from my usual jazz and R & B comfort zone and wrote some film/TV cues heavily inspired by Indian Classical Music. https://w.bmg.com/gcc4o
This was quite a difficult project for me, and I think I'm still recovering…
Jan 24, 2025
I've had some placements lately on NBC such as “Late Night with Seth Meyers” back in November (election day) and “Access Daily” on December 4, 2024. The “Late Night” placement was in a comedy skit by J.B. Smoove, one of…
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Nov 6, 2024
Three of my production music collections have also been released to streaming services like Spotify https://open.spotify.com/artist/0ZZnvFHkNGF1YZlnuq2LF3?si=u616lKG3RvyKZW4_qGqO8g. Though this music is primarily released to big Production Music catalogs like BMG, it's nice to see them available where people sometimes listen…
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Oct 29, 2023
I finally saw Cue Sheets in ASCAP for my 2022 placements in “The Con” (Whoopi Goldberg True Crime show). Thanks Sven Martin and Marco Iannello! This was “dramedy” background music. I also had more placements of Jazz Hip-hop in German…
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Oct 29, 2023
I had some music placed in a Netflix movie called “Stromboli”. I've visited the islands off the coast of Sicily, but never Stromboli. Maybe I need to go… https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12726428/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk. My music was some background jazz piano from the Klanglobby…
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Oct 29, 2023
I had music in the Celebrity Netflix episode “PANDORAS BOX THE WORLD THEY LIVE IN” and “Sombody: episode 103”. This was jazz music from the Klanglobby Album https://open.spotify.com/album/302yQQo25zhEMcBRaFUQip?si=cDocPJXqRzG8IR7o4lFt2g
Oct 29, 2023
On Paramount Plus, I had two placements in the last episode of “Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies”. My placements were some calliope music when they go to the carnival in the finale episode. No, I didn't write any songs…
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Sep 25, 2022
I've had some nice placements recently, including two 30 sec placements of "We Work" from the Klanglobby Jazz album on German sports programs, and two dramedy cues (with Marco Iannello) in "The Con" on NBC.
I also just noticed that…
Sep 19, 2022
This New Orleans style jazz tune was one of my collaborations with UK guitarist Chris Raggatt, and is a rare case where a TV show played the entire tune rather than cutting it up.Bayou Bounce on Pierre M Krause…
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