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I have performed with the following ensembles in the past 36 years: The Temptations, The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, Aretha Franklin, Peabo Bryson, Al Green, Bob Hope, Hal Linden, Jack Jones, Jr., Pattie Page,Frankie Vallie, The Linen Sisters, The Pied Pipers, The Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra, The Harry James Orchestra, The Couriers Big Band, and Tom Jones and Phase V. I have also been the Director of Bands, Choir, and Orchestra for the past 34 yrs. at Sexton and Everett High Schools in Lansing, Michigan. I am presently also the Minister of Music at Redeemer Lutheran Church in Lansing, Mi. where I have served in this position for the past 14 years.

Gear

Yamaha 875 Black/Gold Tenor Sax, Mark VI 51K series Alto Sax., 1972 Armstrong 80 B flute,Buffet Crampton Clarinet, Ensoniq TS 12 Keyboard.


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Album Review

Tom Jones: Spirit in the Room, Deluxe Edition

Read "Spirit in the Room, Deluxe Edition" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


The Rolling Stones celebrate 50 years as a band, resting on their well earned laurels while British peer Tom Jones continues to reinvent himself with the edgy and soulful sequel to his successful 2010 release Praise and Blame (Island Records). “What's New Pussycat?" and “It's Not Unusual" seem as far away as the Hubble Telescope's deep space images. Jones, who mined much of the same American vernacular as the late Johnny Cash on his previous recording, spreads his musical net ...

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Album Review

Tom Jones: Praise and Blame

Read "Praise and Blame" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey


In his brilliant alternate reality novel, The Yiddish Policemen's Union (HarperCollins, 2007), Michael Chabon has a fellow Jewish detective tell plot-protagonist Meyer Landsman that, “it's a strange time to be a Jew." Apparently, it is a strange time to be a Christian also. In what time would it not be strange that 1960s Welsh sex symbol Tom Jones turns 70 and releases an album of American gospel and spirituals, one that is really quite excellent? These are strange times, indeed. ...

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Primary Instrument

Woodwinds

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

34 yrs. for Lansing School District. Director of Bands, Orchestra and Choirs at Sexton and Everett H.S. Also teach Piano and Electronic Music Composition.

Clinic/Workshop Information

Available to do clinics for Beginning to Advanced Improvisation. Have given clinics on starting or implementing jazz bands in both middle and high schools. Also have given clinics on setting up electronic music labs and developing a curriculum for class instruction. I have also given clinics on developing styles of swing and funk and have been featured as guest artist for several H.S

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