Background

Graduated '64 from Lamar High,Houston,under Ed Trongone's guidance at big band music, played several jams with Kenny Rogers, one gig with BJ Thomas & the Triumphs, local TV jazz combo and rock band gigs (Larry Kane show), sock hops for KILT in the 60's, Hal Tennyson's big band,lead trumpet for The Jazz Medics (formerly known as The Heart Beats under Dr Denton Cooley), soloist with the Chuck Nolen Houston City Lights Big Band, occasional trumpet sectioner with the Ronnie Renfro Big Band and Ricky Diaz Big Band, irregular over 20 years with Russell White and his neverending quest to offer a venue for fantasizing would-be singers!, and rhythm & blues jammer since the 60's. My day (and night) job is an emergency room physician.

Location

Sugar Land Texas

Occupation

emergency physician/Big Band & Jazz trumpeter

Music That Inspires Me

Aja Album, Synchronicity I & II by Sting/Police(fires me up), Duke Ellington's Big Band (especially his blues style), Maynard's bands (all of them), Jon Faddis's "Here's That Rainy Day", "Moonlight Sonata & Claire d'lune"

Films I'll Watch More Than Once

Bitter Moon (by Polansky), The Ruling Class (with Peter O'Toole), The Traveling Executioner (Stacy Keach), Bell Book & Candle (every Christmas), 5 Easy Pieces (Jack Nicholson)