pete robbins moved to new york in september, 2002, and immediately became “a welcome presence on the creative music scene.” he leads his group “pete robbins & centric” at such venues as the 55 bar, cornelia street café, the tea lounge, bar 4, the stone, the bowery poetry club, biscuit, and others, and plays regularly in philadelphia, washington dc, burlington, boston, and portland (maine). robbins’ group also appears yearly at the copenhagen jazz festival, and tours other european countries and u.s. regions throughout the year. robbins’ second record, waits and measures, was released on PLAYSCAPE RECORDINGS (www.playscape-recordings.com) in september, 2006. in addition to the group heard on waits & measures, robbins has also had more avant-garde projects with such musicians as mark dresser, randy peterson, daniel levin, and mary halvorson. after stints in boston and copenhagen, robbins now resides in brooklyn. in addition to his performing and recording pursuits, robbins also curated a jazz series at the cornelia street café on behalf of the organization “music for america”, a partisan non-profit organzation promoting political and social awareness through live music. groups led by such jazz legends as dave douglas, uri caine, ravi coltrane, bill mchenry, rodney green, john o’gallagher, and others shared the bill with robbins’ group “centric” at each concert. in september 2004, the village voice recognized robbins’ musical, promotional, and political efforts by naming him their featured jazz pick for the fall season. chamber music america recently awarded robbins with their prestigious “new works: creation and presentation” grant, on behalf of the doris duke foundation. robbins was commissioned to adapt choral works of 17th century Italian composer carlo gesualdo for his band, centric. robbins’ band – as heard on his new recording waits & measures – features thomas morgan (steve coleman, david binney) on bass and dan weiss (miguel zenon, david binney, donny mccaslin) on drums.