A fluent and often arresting improviser and a composer with a keen sense of form, Carey presents the world premiere of Fire in My Head (The Anxiety Suite), an extended, multi-movement work that straddles straight-ahead jazz and chamber music to explore America in an age of angst (on both a personal and community level). It might sound forbidding, but Carey possesses a broad streak of puckish, even absurdist humor that has surfaced in non-musical settings via his contributions to David Eggers’ literary journal McSweeney's.
