I was born in San Juan Puerto Rico,..I started playing guitar at the age of 10 years old thrilled with the sounds of R&B of Ray Charles,James Brown,and the classical guitar of Andres Segovia who enticed my ears with his recordings. At 12 I was already learning the "essential Blues" licks or phrases from the Vinyl recordings of the late Mike Bloomfield,Eric Clapton, & the great B.B.King. At 15 I studied classical guitar for about 3 years with a very talented guitarist,teacher named Daniel Morrison for a period of 3 years..After that I was already interested in jazz guitar and went on to work professionally in the recording studios for several years and at the same time playing, listening and learning jazz music on the side..Did some guitar teaching work at the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music's Jazz Dept for the multi talented saxophonist, composer and educator Marco Pignataro who I have been privileged to play with.. I have worked with artists like Jose Feliciano, saxophone great Sonny Fortune,the late flute legend Herbie Mann,The Drifters,Danny & The Groove,The Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra, grammy award saxophonist David Sanchez,legendary jazz bassist Eddie Gomez,award winning composer and pianist Roger MacNaughton,. I have also recorded with jazz flutist virtuoso Artie Webb for Atlantic records , the late great jazz pianist Paul Neves,keyboardist Mark Gray among many others..Currently I live in Michigan with my wife, and work as a guitarist doing local gigs with a bunch of fantastic local musicians! ,so!, stay tuned for next chapter...Below are some clips of The Alma College Jazz Ensemble( wich I direct) in their spring concert 2008 at the Heritage Center April9th 2008..Below are new clips from a performance in Mount Pleasant with a latin jazz group named AYE .....
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