The Catch and Waves

Two young men crossed paths in the humble but turmulous campus of Camariilo High in Ventura County. It wasn't their red hair that drew them together but rather their cunning ability to create and recognize that of the other. Post high school James continued his formal education at Cal State Northridge and formulated a project with peers containing an effortless cominality. Not forgetting the red hair or the percussive incentive of Chris Stites, all things came towards each other, together, here.

James Petersen is a Jazz Studies major at Cal State Northridge, under the direction of Matt Harris and Gary Pratt. He studies guitar with Jeff Richman, John Pisano, and Barry Zweig, and performs with various ensembles in styles ranging from jazz to hip-hop. His main influences include Pat Metheny, Miles Davis, John Scofield, Hendrix, and Meshuggah, among others...