My formal education was received at Montana State University and Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle WA majoring in Jazz performance. Private studies with; Jerome Gray, Chuck Deardorf, John Clayton, Bob Magnussen, Dave Friezen and James Knapp. Worked as a studio musician, engineer, post production and producer. Performance in jazz combos, fusion groups, big band orchestra, Latin ensembles, rock based, top 40, and funk horn bands. Instruments are; upright bass, electric 4,5,6,& 7 string basses, fretless as well. I perform also as a soloist, using two part inventions, in fusion-jazz-classical idioms.