Mike Brecker, Rich Perry, Jan Garbarek, Jim Gailloreto, Kenny Brooks, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Allan Holdsworth, John Abercrombie, Wayne Krantz, Chet Baker, Joe Zawinul, Keith Carlock
I started playing sax in 1980, and took lessons initially from John Alexander in Miami, Florida (John played with Ira Sullivan). In college I studied with Gary Campbell at University of Miami while studying Music Engineering, and used to go to Wolfe Tayne's mouthpiece studio in Ft. Lauderdale to buy mouthpieces... and was amazed at all the machines there that created his mouthpieces and reeds! In 1987 I received a jazz performance scholarship to go to Florida State University, where I played lead alto and jazz tenor in the 1st band, and studied shakuhachi and the WX7 wind synthesizer. I graduated in 1990 with a degree in Studio Art (drawing, painting, sculpture) and moved to Kansas City where I played many jazz gigs and some studio recordings, studied mechanical engineering for 2 years, and worked at a digital media company doing HTML, Photoshop, 3DStudio, and Macromedia Flash and Director programming. I came up with an idea for a new guitar pick in 1996 and subsequently received US Patent 5,894,097 for the Wirething Guitar Pick. In 2002 my wife Kathy and I moved to the East Coast to be closer to the music scene in New York City. Since being here in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania (90 miles from NYC), I've studied sax playing with Grammy nominee Dave Liebman (Miles Davis, Elvin Jones) and worked intensively with him on mouthpieces—I'm proud that he played for several months on an Otto Link that I refaced for him. Recently I worked for Altec Lansing, managing their corporate website and creating Flash, Photoshop, and print graphics in their Marketing department. Recently I worked with Bob Mover (Charles Mingus, Chet Baker) on making a custom mouthpiece for him. Now I'm refining my mouthpiece models and getting more and more feedback from professional players.
Hi Kenneth Barry Thank you very much for finding me.. It is wonderful !!! In particular G.Steps is difficult for me. Have a great day. Greetings from Hokkaido, Japan Erena
