about my fantabulous sidepersons

Drummer Frank Russo can do just about anything you want with drums, cymbals, and various percussion instruments, and most of it is entirely legal within the lower 48 states.

When strings specialist Amy Shook practices upright bass at home, her two cats mewl in ecstasy because her tone is just too unbearably beefy. Let's not even talk about what happens when she practices violin or viola.

Jim McFalls is rumored to be the reincarnation of an obscure 12th century Hindu saint, which may help explain the profoundly spiritual phenomenon that is his trombone playing.

Trumpeter Tom Williams, who has shared the stage with some of the greatest jazz and pop musicians of our time, is living proof that nice guys do NOT finish last.

Latin guitarist Dani Cortaza had never met me or heard my music before, but he showed up at the recording session on extremely short notice, played his butt off on a couple tunes, hugged and kissed everyone in the room, and left with a smile and a wave.

Forget Daniel Craig. Multi-genre guitarist Chris Kennedy IS the new James Bond.

“Sandy has made an impressive debut with MEMOIR. Her piano playing is very pleasing and together with her supportive ensemble, the music is beautiful. The voice is clear and truthful...the songs are lyrically fresh and inventive. I say BRAVA Sandy!”
~Nora York, composer, singer, multimedia performance artist

about the recording process

Let's just say that I couldn't have managed any of this without the steady encouragement, tremendous musicianship, and finely honed bullsh** detection of Fred Hughes, my recording engineer but also piano teacher, mentor, and friend of the past several years.

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