My teaching approach:
My teaching approach: equip the student with skills and materials for the kind of music he or she wants to play. I usually require students learn reading skills along with technical studies. My pro experience includes recording with DSO and Gladys Knight, & road work with The Four Tops, Martha Reeves, and the Supremes' Mary Wilson, as well Michigan based jazz artists and broadway show companies.
My influences are:
As a player: Charlie Christian, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, B.B. King, Joe Pass, Wes Montgomery, Steve Cropper, Pat Metheny, Grant Green. As a teacher: Mel Bay, Joe Fava, and my father, Norman English.
My gui...