A saxophone for
every room.

Hello, I'm Charlie

Jazz most nights — and a devoted student of the maqam.

I'm a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist based in Colorado. Most weeks that means jazz: standards for a cocktail hour, a combo for a listening room, a horn for the dance floor. It also means the music I've spent years studying — the Arabic and Turkish maqam traditions, and the wider Middle Eastern repertoire — learned from teachers, from recordings, and from the musicians and dancers I'm honored to share a stage with. I come to it as a student and a guest: I play it with care, and I credit where it comes from. Saxophone, keys, saz, doumbek, ney, duduk — whatever the night calls for, I show up prepared and play like it matters.

— Charlie