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Glad you got here.

Good news the very first Curlew LP has been re-released by New York's Downtown Music Gallery's DMG/ARC as a two cd set with live material with Bill Bacon, Bill Laswell, Tom Cora, Nicky Skopelitis and Denardo Coleman that is slammin' !!!!

This link will get you to the site to check it out and this one will give you some of my thoughts on it.


All of Michael DeCapite's 'liner notes' can be found in the discography section. All well worth reading.

A couple of years ago I received the City Pages 'Jazz Artist of the Year' award. If you'd like to read it please click here

My music is available for purchase at Cuneiform Records (Curlew and George Cartwright ) , Roaratorio and Innova .

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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 lessons, 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 in 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 expressions.”


The construction of this web site was in large part funded by a McKnight Composer's Fellowship recieved in 2003 and administered by the American Composer's Forum. I am very grateful for their support

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