All-Region & All-State Concert & Jazz Band Tryouts
Concert Band, Jazz Band & Solo Literature
College & University Auditions, Portfolio Building
Breathing & Timbre (Sound)
In-School Trumpet Sectionals
Improvisation Lessons
Career Highlights: Band & Classical
41 years Music Professor, UA Little Rock, more than 25 courses taught
1983 & 1984, 2nd Chair Trumpet, The Arkansas Symphony Orchestra
1979-80, Adjunct Professor of Trumpet, Faculty Brass Quintet, University of Tennessee
1969-1982, 1st Chair Trumpet, University of Tennessee Wind Ensemble, Brass Choir, Jazz Ensemble, Orchestra
1972, Principal Trumpet, The Knoxville Symphony Orchestra
1969 First High School Musician featured with the United States Air Force Band, Washington, D.C.
1968 & 1969 First Chair Trumpet in The All-Virginia High School Band
Career Highlights: Jazz & Popular Music
2014-present, International Cultural Exchange Tours, ICX Jazz Ensemble
2014, Inducted into The Arkansas Jazz Hall of Fame
1985-87, President of Arkansas Chapter National Association of Jazz Educators
1970-2022 Performances with Pharoah Sanders, Gregory Tardy, Jerry Coker, Alvin Batiste, Airto Moriera, Carl Fontana, Victor Wooten, Jack DeJohnette, Gary Foster, Maria Schneider, Don Menza, Frank Sinatra, Donald Brown, Art Porter Sr. & Jr., Charles Thomas, Ted Ludwig, Willie Humphrey, and many others
1978-82, Mentored in Graduate School by Jazz saxophonist, teacher, author, and pedagogue Jerry Coker
1970s Tours with Michael Jackson, Diana Ross, The Temptations, The O'Jays, Lou Rawls, The Spinners, The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and others
