Here are a variety of pics to check out. Most are music oriented. Others are just interesting and some are there because they're of people I care about. Click on the thumbnail to see a full-sized shot.

Trading 4's with Carl Fontana, during a performance given by the Springs Contemporary Jazz Big Band. Now THAT was a major career highlight for me!!
I had a chance to return and perform with the Springs Contemporary band during 2005. I'm not used to the altitude anymore but it was really a great trip. Thanks Steve!
My twin brother Sean with his family during a visit to Disney World. My CD New Horizons is dedicated to Matthew, who is in between Mickey and Minnie. We miss you, Matt.
During my quick playing trip to Colorado Springs in 2005, I got to see some of my former Falconaires friends. Brad Eastin, Mark Raphael, George Roach, with 2 lovely wives as a bonus.
Four Brothers. From left to right - Rob, me, Sean and Phil. (Engineer, Trombonist, Computer guy, Band director.)

 

My daughter Sabrina preparing to make the opening score during a national tournament. It's really fun to watch her work.
 

 

Performing alongside Pete Christlieb at a park concert in 2001. Great guy and (not surprisingly) a wonderful player.

 

During a recording session with Bill Watrous, I had to make sure I got a picture with him. He and Carl Fontana were major playing influences for me.
Soloing in front of the Sierra Vista High School jazz ensemble. We performed Pan-Fried Doodles, Goodnight Story, and Slushpump Central (all three are on my published music page).

 

These are the guys who pulled off the over-the-top arrangements I did on "Seventy-Six Trombones" and "Till There Was You". We performed them, among other places, at the Army Band's Eastern Trombone Workshop 2001. Hey, when in doubt, write yourself the best, highest lead part you can. Then, you can't complain about being bored.

 

If you want something really fun to play, write it yourself. I wrote a Christmas solo that gave me a chance to leave the staff far, far behind ("Bree-Nicky's First Christmas", recorded on "Yuletide Treasures" by the USAF Band of the Rockies).

 

My twin brother, Sean, playing snare with the Santa Clara Vanguard in 1987 (he's the one 3rd from the left when you expand the picture). Drum corps is the epitomy of this type of drumming, and he got as much out of his summer with them as I did with my time with the Blue Devils in 1986.
My wife Sharon, singing with Blue Steel, part of the USAF Band of the Rockies. That group was something else back then.
Hanging out in back of the White House, scratching the President's dog, Barney. A week later, I was warming up some high notes in the Capitol Rotunda. (Nice ring-out in there!) ho-hum...Just another day at the office.

 

One of the benefits of working in a military band is that you get to meet (or at least be in the same room as) some pretty famous, important people. Shaking hands with a former President was pretty unique.
The Disney College Band 1988. Ah, good times. Performing all day long. Clinics with industry professionals. Entertaining people every day. Can I go back and do that some more???

 

Demonstrating the varied responsibilities that come with a music job in the Air Force, this is me operating as the band's Head Drum Major during a ceremony at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Who would have thought?

 

Circa 1986, the end of a tough but great summer with the Blue Devils (three years before the military cut all that hair off!).

 

From top left: Bill Murray, Scott Webring, me and Bob Dawson (he, of the bionic ears) at Bias Studios in Springfield, Virginia when Bob and I were mixing the Falconaires CD "A Touch of Jobim". Between the quality musical experience and the Thai food, I wouldn't mind living in that studio!