Jim started playing the recorder when he was 9 years old. Once entering middle school Jim started playing the saxophone and was excepted to attend the Youth Performing Arts High School in Louisville, KY where he learned the Bassoon and was introduced to the language of Jazz.After High School Jim joined the U.S. Navy Music program and attended the Armed Forces School of Music and studied saxophone and clarinet with Keith Philbrick. After some time in the Navy Band he returned to the SOM for the Unit Leader course and then the Senior Musicians course where he studied conducting, arranging for wind and jazz ensembles, rehearsal techniques, and jazz/classical theory.Jim has studied saxophone and Jazz Improvisation with Rich Corpolongo and Greg Fishman in Chicago, Greg Abate in Rhode Island, and Carl Wolfe in Memphis, TN.While living in Memphis, TN he was a member of the Memphis Jazz Orchestra with whom he performed with the Temptations, James Williams, Marvin Stam, Herb Ellis, 4-tops, and Joyce Cobb and also performed at the W.C. Handy Jazz Festival and Hot Springs Jazz Festival. Jim has also played with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, the Memphis Symphony, the Boston Pops, and numerous musicians across Europe and America.During his time in Italy Jim toured Europe performing shows in Spain, England, Croatia, Russia, Greece, Romania, Estonia and Germany and also won first place in the Latino Americando festival in Milan, Italy.
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