Would I Stay

Inside

This is one with the Uncle Hoy band from 1996 or so, the incomparable Adam Grant singing. I wrote and arranged the music, based on a poem by my dad, Dan Balaban — the lyrics are mostly his. Just wanted to put this one out there for the Halloween weekend...

Werewolf

"Just A Little Bit Of Your Soul" (The Chuck Jackson Orchestra)
by Touque
David Aaron-tenor saxophone
Spencer Katzman-guitar
Nick Balaban-keyboard
Kai Eric-bass
Jason Isaac-drums
https://www.shortmemory.org/touque/

Just A Little Bit Of Your Soul

IT'S SO SAD TO SAY GOODBYE TO SUMMER

Waves

There were no facts.  But there is a song.

THE BALLAD OF BOWLING GREEN

Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy. Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.

The Case for Reparations - The Atlantic - Ta-Nehisi Coates

Gypppsy Woman

I Don't Know Any Angels

2020

Made music for lots of children's tv, including Blue's Clues, Blue's Room, Word World, Bubble Guppies, PBS Kids, and Peg + Cat. Recorded and/or gigged with: Ray Charles, Patti LaBelle, Macy Gray, The Persuasions, James Taylor, Carly Simon, Phoebe Snow, Toni Braxton, Randy Travis, David Murray, John Boutté, India.Arie, Percy Sledge, Culture, Duduka da Fonseca, Romero Lubambo, Speedball Baby, Bashiri Johnson, Fred Hopkins, Sugar Minott, John Zorn's Cobra, Alton Ellis, Barrington Levy, Davis Rogan, Charlie Giordano, Leroy Sibbles, Nell Carter, Bern Nix, G.R.A.S.S., Souljahs, Jim Nolet, Kevin Batchelor, Jon-Erik Kellso, Dan Levinson, Mike Clark, The Strangelys, J. Walter Hawkes, Shelly Thunder, Robby Ameen, Lincoln Goines, Mauricio Herrera, Skye Steele, Jake Charkey, Bradley Jones, Gary Knox & the Streethearts, Ed Pettersen, etc. Currently playing with Rho & The Nomads, Centralia, Touque, The Ancient Jazz Quartet, The New York Ska Orchestra, The Grateful Dread, and playing solo shows in and around NYC.

Werewolf

Nickbalaban