Interests

 

Attending the Cirque Du Soleil with his daughter, traditional Native American storytelling, ancestral drumming, Native American beading/art/leatherwork/crafts/flintknapping, backpacking, hiking, camping, fishing and backpacking, natural horsemanship, raising and caring for animals and birds both wild and tamed, gardening, swimming, Seishin Aikido, Wing Chun Kung Fu, Japanese swordsmanship (kenjutsu), archery, North American medicinal plants and herbs, reading, meditation, world/cultural history, theology, quantum physics, astronomy, comparative studies in spirituality, dancing (tribal and modern), off-grid sustainable living, sitting-on-the-floor-barefoot-jammin-with-musicians, and gourmet cooking (yes, and gourmet EATING too...).

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Musical Influences

 

Jazz, Alternative, Smooth Jazz, Fusion-

Jaco Pastorius, Stanley Clarke, Weather Report, Maynard Ferguson, Brian Bromberg, Keiko Matsui, Kazuo Matsui, Dave Brubeck, Horace Silver, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, Harry James, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, Sting, Annie Lennox, Al DiMeola, Marc Antoine, Nora Jones, Jeff Beck, Michael Manring, Eda James, Sade, Charlie "Bird" Parker, Rufus Cappadocia.

 

International/Ethnic-

Loreena McKennit, Yoshida Brothers (Yoshida Kyodai), R. Carlos Nakai, Laughing Crow, Douglas Spotted Eagle, Robert Mirabal, Tomita, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Kodo (taiko drummers of Japan), Terry Travis, Bob Marley, Peter Buffet and Chief Hawk Pope, Earl Bullhead, Crazy Horse Singers, Red Leaf Singers, David Swallow Jr, Jose Cabazas, Cathie Ryan, Robert Tree Cody, Standing Eagle Singers, Red Cloud Singers.

 

Progressive/Progressive Rock-

Porcupine Tree, Steve Vai, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension, Dragon Force, Spock's Beard, Ozric Tentacles, Yes (all eras), Emerson Lake and Palmer, Kansas, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Journey (early), Ronnie Montrose/Gamma, Mike Oldfield, David Bowie, Brian Eno, Michael Manring, Edgar Winter Group.

 

Rock - Alternative, Punk-

Empires, Death Cab for Cutie, Linkin Park, Nickelback, POD, Silver Sun Pickups, Green Day, Carolina Liar, Foo Fighters, Cold Play, Five for Fighting, Goo Goo Dolls, Muse, The Rocket Summer, Switchfoot, The Killerz, My Chemical Romance, Paramore, Explosions in the Sky, Fallout Boy, Hyde (Haido).

 

Dark Wave/Gothic/Gothic Orchestra, Dance Metal-

Within Temptation, Krypteria, Seven Mary Three, Lacuna Coil, Type O Negative, Apocalyptica, Flyleaf, Evanescence/Amy Lee, Eyes of Eden, Epica, E.S. Posthumus, Leave's Eyes, Nightwish, Tristania, Sirenia Poisonblack.

 

Hard Alternative/Grunge-

Days of the New, Rob Zombie, Rammstein, Sound Garden, Drowning Pool, Tool, The Used, Stone Temple Pilots, System of a Down, Smashing Pumpkins, Kurt Cobain/Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Criss Angel (the "Mind Freak" illusionist), Rage Against the Machine, Danzig, Godsmack, Audioslave, Alice in Chains, Breaking Benjamin.

 

Classic and Mainstream-

Sixx AM, Smash Mouth, Van Halen, Deep Purple, Journey (early), Led Zepplin, Santana, Sammy Hagar, Queen, Jimi Hendrix, Tom Petty, Thin Lizzy, Allman Brothers, Melissa Ethridge, Janis Joplin, Sarah McLaughlin, David Matthews, The Who, Ozzy Osborne, ZZ Top, The Tubes, Aerosmith.

 

R and B-

Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Robert Johnson, John Lee Hooker, Big Mama Thornton, Etta James, Corky Seagle, B.B. King, Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Eric Clapton, Robert Cray Band, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Leon Redbone.

 

Electronica, Trance, Trip Hop, House-

Imogen Heap, Prodigy, Kraftwerk, Sounds from the Ground, STS9, William Orbit, Philip Glass (early), Uberzone, Tangerine Dream, Tomita, Chemical Brothers, Explosions in the Sky, Owl City, Psicodreamics, Bassnectar, Trent Reznor.

 

Meditation and World-

Jonathan Goldman, Ravi Shankar, John McLaughlin, Sudha, Enigma, Anugama, Amethystium, Aeoliah, 2002, Bodhi, Dean Evenson, Li Xiangting, Harold Budd, Brian Eno, Steve Roach, Deuter, Dean Evenson, Maneki Neko, Roger Eno, R.Carlos Nakai, Robert Tree Cody, Kim Bold, Kitaro, Jon Anderson, various Zen Shakuhachi players

 

Assorted Symphonic Composers-

Jean-Francois Cote (Cirque Du Soleil - "Kooza!"), Rene Duprere - Cirque Du Soleil - "Alegria"), Violaine Corradi (Cirque Du Soleil - "Dralion" and "Varekai"), Beethoven, Vivaldi, Gustav Holtz, Michael Hedges, Bach, John Williams (modern composer), Yanni (modern composer), Hans Zimmer (modern composer), Rimski Korsokoff, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn.

 

 

 

teachers

 

Jazz, classical trumpet - 12 years-

Frank Hansbury, George Carter III, Johnny Coppola (Maynard Ferguson Band), Chuck Rainey, John Handy, Dr. Kruth (San Francisco State), San Francisco Symphony and Don Reinberg (1st chair trumpet).

 

Powwow drumming and traditional Lakota singing-

Marvin Little Moon, Sonoma Dave (Ocaranza), Rick Goodsell.

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