I've been a professional musician all my life, performing around the world in settings ranging from symphony orchestras to jazz, rock, and blues groups. I'm a bassist, composer, music director and conductor, and have taught music at several universities. I also play 'cello, tuba, guitar, and chromatic harmonica.<br />
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I've appeared on national network television and at venues such as the U.S. White House, Carnegie Hall, The Monterey Jazz Festival, The New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, The 1990 World Exposition in Osaka, Japan and Holland America’s Salute to Jazz Cruises, to mention but a few.<br />
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Over the years, I've worked with and been featured with such artists as: Snookum Russell, Louis Jordan, Earl &quot;Fatha&quot; Hines, Lee Konitz, Errol Garner, Eddie Harris, Mel Torme, Stephan Grapelli, Carmen McRae, Joe Williams, Bob Wilbur, The Dukes of Dixieland, Al Hirt, Pete Fountain, Danny Barker, Buddy DeFranco, The Glenn Miller Orchestra, The Woody Herman Orchestra, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Paul Simon, Chuck Berry, Professor Longhair, Gatemouth Brown, James Booker, Mike Bloomfield, Dan Hicks, Lucinda Williams, Guy Forsyth, Patti Page, Perry Como, Al Martino, Steve Allen, The Ink Spots, The Four Aces, and New Orleans famed Olympia Brass Band (tuba)<br />
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I hold a BM in doublebass from the University of Missouri, Columbia, MM in Jazz Studies from Webster University, St. Louis, and DMA candidate in Jazz Studies at the University of Texas, Austin where I was Instructor of Jazz Bass.<br />
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I also do harmonica repair and custom tunings.