Has three sisters, Pamela, Karen and Janice, and two brothers James and Louis.
Father James, mother Patricia.
He recorded with Joe Wilder, Connie Kay, Emily Remler, Mel Lewis, and Lew Tabackin, and he recorded with the great rock idol, Steve Miller, as well as scores of other collaborations with an array of distinguished pop, rock, and jazz performers.
He came in third in the 1987 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz International Piano Competition in Washington D.C.