I was fairly prolific in 2022 cranking out harmonica courses on my other website chromaticlessons.com. I completed three courses in 2022 and released another one in the early part of 2023.
I picked up where I left off by completing Volume 2 of my Improvising Chromatic Harmonica for Modern Musicians series.… Read the rest
I REALLY tried to get some press happening regarding the My Destiny release. I did what all the indie artists do and contacted a large list of publications and bloggers. I even paid a little money to have some influencers listen to my tracks.… Read the rest
Here’s a song from 2005. I had this done just a few months ago just ‘warming up” getting myself ready to release some new music in 2020. I am planning on completing lyric videos for most of the songs on the new album.… Read the rest
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If you haven’t heard of this guy you need to check him out. He can really play some serious jazz on the chromatic harmonica and he is deadly serious about his practice regime. I had a gig in New York City so I contacted him and stayed an extra day to meet him for a 90 minute lesson on January 9th, 2017.… Read the rest
I kept running into Buddy at events and once on a hiking trail. So I sent him a demo cd with mostly harmonica playing and some of my flute and saxophone on it also. He sent me a note saying that the cd was damaged and wouldn’t play so… I sent another one.… Read the rest
I got the call in 1999 to be a part of this tour. They wanted horn players that could double on stuff like keys or percussion. So I played some keys in addition to the saxophone. It’s funny it was called World Tour because we stayed in the States exclusively.… Read the rest
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I moved my family to Nashville in 1997 with some vague, unfocused goals of furthering my career as a musician. I wasn’t sure what to expect or what would happen. A couple months after I arrived I met a guy at my church who told me he ran front-of-house sound for Donna Summer.… Read the rest
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I’ve been working with The Jimmy Church Band since June 2015. The 10-piece band specializes in providing quality entertainment for private, upscale events. It’s a big group with a big sound featuring a horn section and two pretty girls out front.… Read the rest
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Denver and the Mile High Orchestra was founded in 2000 by trumpet player, vocalist, and arranger Denver Bierman and some like-minded students at Belmont University in Nashville. So the band really is from Nashville, TN and NOT from Denver, CO. Denver has been a shining example for me of someone who chose not to put his musical gifts in some kind of churchy, religious box but has actually successfully brought real quality jazz into conservative Baptist churches and everybody loves it!… Read the rest
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