Day By Day is a big-band record about the hidden everyday life of musicians—the hours of solitary practice, the repetition, and the quiet discipline that outsiders rarely see. I wanted to push back against the stereotype that musicians are either glamorous pop stars or eccentric recluses. To me, musicians are storytellers: each carries a personal world, and when we finally come together to play, that’s where the magic begins.

I wrote the entire album during my senior year at Berklee College of Music, in a rare stretch of time free from deadlines. I kept asking myself: If no one required you to compose—would you still do it? The answer was always yes. That conviction became the album’s spine: finding inner peace through repetition, learning to trust your own voice, and treating each day—especially the “boring” parts—as something precious.