A transformative effect on listeners.
—Tizzy Asher, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer

I’m a jazz piano and organ player and have performed extensively in the United States and Australia. I can be found at the helm of a 1958 Hammond B-3 organ and other vintage keyboards, playing in various jazz and funk ensembles.

I was a founding member of the critically acclaimed Seattle-based improv quartet Water Babies whose debut album Draw Me A Bath has been featured on U.S. radio stations such as KEXP 90.3 FM's Jazz Theater and KMTT 103.7 FM's The Chill Side. In 2005, it was voted “Top 10 Things To Do in June” by Where Magazine and was featured in the “Seattle Sounds” section of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer.

In Australia, I led my own Hammond organ trio as well as the quartet Milch, which performed at leading jazz and blues venues. I have also been featured on the PBS 106.7 FM program Jazz on Saturday.

Reviews

It's rare to get it right but the Water Babies have the musical chemistry and chops that carry their free-form compositions to tingly heights.
—Don Rauf, Seattlest.com (read review)

I still fantasize that a local group will further the work of Burnt Sugar and fuse the funky grooves of 1970s cop-show jazz with the abrupt, mind-melting segues heard on Miles Davis's mid-'70s albums such as Agharta and Pangaea. Plying similar yet more straight-ahead territory, Water Babies manage to bring the funk without the usual jam-band excesses.
—Christopher DeLaurenti, The Stranger (read review)

The Water Babies know that few instruments sound as distinctive and defining as the Hammond B-3, so they offset the organ's whirling, reedy tone with bright flairs of trumpet, lax drumbeats and the sort of deep bass that permeates the seat of your pants and rattles around for several minutes before settling down. The seamless, free-form funk jams that result have a transformative effect on listeners. Even at tiny clubs, you'll find the audience on its feet, shaking its collective rump along with the loose grooves.
—Tizzy Asher, The Seattle Post-Intelligencer