Music has always been a part of my life. Singing in church and learning songs at my grandfather's knee are some of my earliest memories. As a child, I took piano lesson, and later learned to play the guitar by ear. I started composing on the guitar, writing songs with words and creating instrumental pieces a la Miss John Hurt and John Fahey. In high school, I was a big fan of the British bands that played blues and was thrilled to discover that they had found the blues literally in my own hometown on the Mississippi Delta. I bought my first sax on my 21st birthday with 65 dollars, a present from my Grandmother. I studied jazz saxophone, being irreversibly drawn to its beauty and passion. In college, after hearing Ornette Coleman's Dancing in Your Head I started finding melodies and ideas for songs and began seriously composing pieces. After a year and a half at the Creative Music studio in Woodstock, New York, I moved to New York City where I made a conscious decision to eschew journeyman positions in music, learning a trade to pay the bills, passionate that I wanted to compose and perform my music free of traditional restraints. Clarity had always been important to me. I love counterpoint, things pulling in different directions while respecting the others right and need to exist - or, as Coleman describes his harmolodic philosophy, communicating the equal access of information for multiple expression.