After his seventeen-year worldwide touring and recording stint with the Jazz Ambassadors, the premiere touring jazz ensemble of the US Army, Jim retired from the military in 1998 to find a variety of projects awaiting him.  As a freelance musician, he has been performing in an incredibly diverse array of situations.  These include a 3-year run with Chuck Brown, Washington, DC’s “Godfather of Go-Go,” appearances with the Baltimore Symphony Pops Orchestra, the critically acclaimed Great American Music Ensemble, and the Kennedy Center Orchestra.  Jim’s recording credits include numerous projects as a featured soloist as well as various national television spots.  Currently, Jim is a regular member of the internationally renowned Capitol Bones and their larger counterpart, the Capitol Bones Big Band.  Jim has appeared on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien" with Thievery Corporation, a DC-based techno band, and continues to tour extensively throughout the United States and Europe.

Today, Jim is in great demand as both a trombonist and educator.  He has performed and recorded with a veritable “who’s who” of jazz luminaries to include Dave Liebman, Geoff Keezer, Denis DiBlasio, Ingrid Jensen, Clark Terry, Jim Ridl, Gary Thomas, Christian McBride, Ron Blake, Dave Samuels, Carl Fontana, Jon Faddis, and Toots Thielemans.  Jim’s unique style of teaching - combining enthusiasm, motivation, inspiration and humor - helps create an environment where students are eager to learn and unafraid to take chances.  This approach helps keep Jim busy year-round, musically connecting with students of all ages.  In addition to his hectic performance and travel schedule, Jim is on the faculty of the Jazz & Commercial Music Studies Division at Towson University.  He is also the head faculty of the annual Mason/Dixon Summer Jazz Camp at Gettysburg College and is currently serving as President of the MD Unit of IAJE.  As well as guest conducting county, district, and all-state level jazz ensembles throughout the Mid-Atlantic region, Jim also appears at high schools and colleges nationwide as a Buffet Crampon/Antoine Courtios performer and clinician.   

Discography
As a sideman:
Memoir – Sandy Asirvatham, Jazz Girl Music
Buonarroti’s Ceiling – The Denis DiBlasio Quintet, Art of Life Records (mid ‘07 release)
Live at Blues Alley – The Mark Taylor/Steve Fidyk Big Band, Writegroove Productions
Scat Like That  – Cathy Fink and Marcy Marxer, Rounder Records
The Best of Chuck Brown – Raw Venture Records
Little Jazz Bird – Christina Crerar
A Perfect Match – The Mark Taylor/Steve Fidyk Big Band, Writegroove Productions
Krush! – Krush, Paul Minor Productions
Put Your Hands Up! – A tribute concert to Chuck Brown, Raw Venture Records (DVD)
A Stan Kenton Christmas – The Capitol Bones Big Band, The Capitol Bones
Anything Goes – The Capitol Quartet, Summit Records
Epistrophy – Matt Niess and the Capitol Bones, Sea Breeze Records
A Sentimental Christmas – Kathy Troccoli, Reunion Records
To Be Or Not – The Ed Williams Big Band, Chanticleer Records
La Clave – Sin Miedo, Didier Prossaird
The Fred Hughes Trio-Live – Fred Hughes
It’s All In The G.A.M.E. – The Great American Music Ensemble, Doug Richards

As a member of the Jazz Ambassadors:

A Tribute to Hank Levy
A Tribute to Stan Kenton
The Jazz Ambassadors
Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy
A Change in the Weather
Caribbean Fantasy

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