With the recent departure of  revered balladeer Tony Bennett from the live music scene, I felt even more encouraged to bring my own grown-up music to the national forefront – music I call “Baritone Love Songs.”  Bennett famously left his heart in San Francisco. But mine was always there.
 

 You see I was born in Oakland, California,  on November 11, 1945, Veterans Day. I grew up in the Oakland/San Francisco Bay Area and while pursuing various business ventures, my love of singing the music I always loved grew stronger. And I began to record.
 

 I have an enduring passion for the American art form known as Jazz.  And my music is a Jazz-influenced interpretation of the classic American song book created by writers like Cole Porter, Johnny Mercer, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn,  to name a few of the geniuses who gave America this world-class music.
 

In the studio, I assembled some of the best musicians in the San Francisco/Oakland Bay Area with a very bright young producer named Ron Moton. We combined our talents so the world can enjoy once more fresh interpretations of  timeless music that reflects my own persona.
 

I'm a Romantic…who has always loved songs that tell a story of life and love that most of us can identify with…songs with the poetry of love and sadness…songs with the joys of life lyrically and melodiously integrated with sound and harmony.

I'm a Passionate Person…who falls in love too easily, especially with music that complements the lyric with sensitivity… and harmonics that support the lyrical story.
 

I am one of the last of a generation that produced the vocalists who inspired men and women to hold each other in their arms… and dance across the floor in loving bliss.
 

 I grew to love this music even more when I saw Nat King Cole and Frank Sinatra on television.  These great storytellers, along with the inimitable Ms. Nancy Wilson, inspired my ability to phrase and style a lyric to give it special meaning. I saw other great vocalists with that same talent, Lou Rawls and Etta James, when both were on the fabled ‘Chittlin’ Circuit.’
 

 At 16, I was at the 1961 Monterey Jazz Festival when the fabled Dizzy Gillespie Orchestra was the house band. And yes, I watched Lawrence Welk too… expanding my exposure to the vast musical universe that informs my own sensibilities …and repertoire…today.
 

So come and enjoy the ride with me as we travel back into the era where beautiful music warmed and comforted…and lyrics told heartfelt stories…satisfying our yearning for the nostalgia  that fills our souls today.