Big Band Experience -- Among Others Cecil Bridgewater Big Band Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Jazz Orchestra Count Basie Orchestra Duke Ellington Orchestra Grover Mitchell Orchestra Frank Foster's Loud Minority McCoy Tyner Big Band

Small Band Experience -- Among Others Cecil Bridgewater Quartet, Quintet, Duo Horace Silver Quintet Max Roach Quartet, Double Quartet Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers McCoy Tyner Latin Ensemble Jimmy Heath Quintet Joe Henderson Sextet Richard Davis Quintet

Guest Soloist/Clinician Amsterdam Summer Workshops North Texas State Manhattan School of Music Julliard School of Music Veneto Jazz University of Illinois Hartwick Music Camp 2000-2001 Artist in Residence - Tri-C Jazz Fest Cleveland, Oh University of Kentucky -- Lexington, KY Porto Jazz Festival -- Porto, Portugal Northern Illinois University -- Dekalb, ILL University of Illinois -- Urbana, ILL Atlanta Arts Festival -- Atlanta, GA Central State College -- Wilberforce, OH University of Massachusetts -- Amherst, MA Wesleyan University -- Middletown, CT Cleveland State University -- Cleveland, OH Mellon Jazz Festival -- Pittsburgh, PA Ravinia Jazz Festival -- Chicago, ILL

Commissions Meet The Composer Grant -- 1994 Cleveland Chamber Symphony -- 1992 Atlanta Arts Festival -- 1984 University of Illinois -- 1975 JazzMobile -- 1973

Instructor New School Jazz Program Manhattan School of Music Juilliard School of Music William Paterson University State University of New York, Queens College JazzMobile

Education University of Illinois -- Music Education/Applied Music Thad Jones -- Composition, arranging, conducting Max Roach -- Improvisation, performance