- Words and photgraphy by Lia Crowe
“Balance and patience,” Gabriel says when I ask what his best life lesson has been.
Born in Denver, Colorado, Gabriel started playing music at the age of eight, and when he made an album with the school concert band that year, the die was cast.
“At 12, I was listening to late-night jazz from east coast cities via AM radio waves bounced off the ionosphere to the Mile High City.
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