About Me

I live in New York but am originally from a small seacoast town in Maine. I’m a very private person sharing my music.  Here is a little bit about me.  Most of my writing inspiration occurs in places other than at the keyboard. Driving, walking, doing the dishes, re-potting a plant, shopping at the supermarket. Living my Ordinary Life….just doing simple everyday things. But I honor the moments when the ether opens up and drops a song in my head. It is such a strange blessing when it happens that I listen and go on the journey.

2026
I have just released my fourth jazz album, “Jazz Dreams” on March 16, 2026. I guess everyone says these projects are a labor of love and I mean these words as well. Not just my love but the love of each collaborator on the album. There is some kind of unspoken language of the heart and soul that can only be realized through unrestricted musical expression and supreme sensitivity to each other. Jazz requires this. It is a conversation. It is give and take. It is listening and responding. This is what I love about the people who have worked on this with me and over the years. The other great element is to be with players who have something to “say”. I know I have often likened music to a painting but it truly is how I see music. A beautiful painting that evokes a feeling and of course you want there to be some open sky in a landscape. Space between the notes, yes. There is an understanding.  

2022

For this current album “Everlasting Cool” I decided I wanted to pay homage to some great jazz standards and this is for a few different reasons. One is that it takes me to that happy child place, to a world that just felt more safe and happy. The other reason is that I listened to this music as a child and knew all the songs by heart by the time I became a teenager. Then as a teenager I got a job singing on the waterfront in Portland Maine at a little Italian restaurant DiMillo’s. I would sing during the cocktail hour. My sister’s husband Steve Barnes was a Berklee College of music graduate and was an amazing guitarist so we put a small band together. The songs I have chosen to honor are just cool….Everlasting Cool.

2020
My second album “Paper Doll” was a mixture of my original jazz songs and a couple of standards.It included my s songs  “Cherish”, “Seraphina” a scat version of my composition “That’s What Crazy Lovers Do,”. I also Included an album version of “Nature Boy” with Elliott Randall and Pete Levin written by Eden Ahbez and a french song I composed “Abeille”. I also included my interpretation of the classic ‘Stardust” written by Hoagy Carmichael and Mitchell Parish. The title of the album is  “Paper Doll” and was released July 7, 2020 xo

2019
In May of 2019 I added another soundtrack credit with my most recent 60’s retro pop rock song “Little Things” featured in the new Johnny Depp movie “The Professor” (2019). The great thing about this project was that it gave me international exposure and so now my music is played in about 120 countries.  I always look forward to my next paragraph.

2017
In 2017 I released a ten-track jazz/pop album “Cool Night” with an amazing roster of musicians and singers, a who’s who of the best of the best in the music industry! The album was mastered by Grammy® award winner Tom Coyne known for his work on Beyonce, Bruno Mars and Adele.