• HOMETOWN: Oakley, California
  
  
• BIRTHPLACE: Evansville, Indiana

• EDUCATION:
  
  
  • High School - Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • Cal State Hayward (B.A., M.A.)
  • San Francisco State - Composition studies
  • Los Medanos College - Jazz studies
    
    
• STATUS: Married, with four cats

• TALENT: Composer, pianist

• GEAR: Kurzweil synthesizer (gigs), Steinberg Grand Piano (home)

• JAZZ INFLUENCES:
All jazz pianists, especially Bill Evans, who is the greatest of them all

• SKETCH:
  
  
  • Working on a book of interviews with jazz pianists titled "Tips from the Jazz Piano Pros."
    

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