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About Me

I am a musician and educator from Grambling, Louisiana where I also teach music classes, jazz ensemble, and guitar at Grambling State University. I am the church musician at Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church of Ruston, Louisiana, and guitarist/keyboardist for Dorsey Summerfield & The Polyphonics, a jazz/r&b group from Shreveport, Louisiana (www.thepolyphonics.com and www.myspace.com/dorseysummerfield).Professionally, I have performed as a sideman for artists or groups such as The Manhattans, Jimmy Witherspoon, Tom Browne, Laverne Butler, Jennifer Holliday, Phyllis Hyman, Sonya Robinson, Henry Johnson, Martha Reeves, The Drifters, The Coasters, The Marvelettes, The Platters, May Palmer, and Shelia Raye Charles.

Pilgrim Rest B. C. Ruston, LA
http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids....

Me performing "Someday We'll All Be Free" at our annual African American History program Feb. 8, 2009.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

I would like to meet the musicians that I grew up listening to such as George Benson, Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Joe Sample, George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Brecker Brothers, Yellowjackets, Marcus Miller, etc...
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My Blog

By The Way. . .

I forgot to tell all of you that all of the music you all are listening to on my page on the smoothjazzspcace.com player was written, performed, produced, and recorded by me.  ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 07:01:00 GMT

The Way Jazz is Here

The region that I am from is north central Louisiana, one extremely limited market for jazz that has a handfull of followers. I am, though, not disillusioned by this aspect because there are arts coun...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Sep 2007 11:40:00 GMT