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Nationally he has been double billed with such notables as Buddy Rich, Ray Brown, Rosemary Clooney, The Artie Shaw Band and Count Basie's Orchestra. .. ..

As an educator at both the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth and Wheaton College, Rick teaches saxophone, jazz piano, jazz ensemble and African-American Music History. He also coaches the jazz bands for New Bedford High and Old Rochester Regional High Schools and teaches private lessons for piano and music theory at The Symphony Music Shop in North Dartmouth, MA... ..

His jazz composition, “Hot Summer’s Night” is on Dan Moretti's CD "Saxual” on which Rick also plays keys plus two of Rick’s jazz compositions “Nova Samba and “Xumusca” are on the “Whaling City Sound Superband Live” CD.

Performance on new CD release, "Holy City" with The Lord's Orphans, best described as a modern day American version of Pink Floyd with a mix of other influences that include Peter Gabriel, late Beatles, The Doors, Alan Parsons Project and Led Zeppelin.

Rick's avante garde jazz trio "TRINE" featuring fellow musicians Jim Robitaille on guitar and Chris Poudrier on drums just released a new CD on the Fuller Street Music label called "POLITICS".

He is also on a new CD release by Andy McWain. "The Andy McWain Ensemble: RESEMBLANCE" released this Spring 08. It features eight musicians (including Sofia Koutsovitis, Assif Tsahar, Rick Britto, Chris Poudrier, Jeremy Udden, David Landoni, and Albey Balgochian) in various combinations from solo piano, duos, and trios to sextet.