~~~I am a professional bassist/singer/songwriter with 50+ years experience performing rock and roll, blues, country and western, gospel, folk and jazz. I received my degree from Indiana University where I majored in Afro-American Music History and performance. I am available for hire: For Session work. For bands that need a replacement bassist due to illness. For collaborative recording online, o
r in-person. For lessons beginner to intermediate. Ridgewood, NJ; with lots of Duke Ellington, Errol Garner, Tommy Dorsey, and Julie London played around the house. Playing piano at age 8, moving to drums at age 10, guitar at 12, and bass the same year. Many thank you's to Winifred Hawkins my piano teacher. Harry at Victor's House of Music. Peter De Luca my bass teacher at RHS. Duncan and Jean Butler who introduced me to Jazz. My Brother Rick who fronted the money to record The Aurelia Band. Creative Philosophy:~~~ “Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.” ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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