Music has to come from the heart. It has to be about life. And you need to be able to live with it. I owe much to Margaret Chaloff, Joel Forbes, Dave McKenna, Bill Evans, and NYC jazz greats in the late 50s. Since that era I have continued to perform and to compose in a variety of genres. I have lived in Vermont since 1967 and rarely leave. My best known recorded work is "The Lake Studies". ... more