As a member of the trumpet section of the Phil Woods Big Band, he has toured Europe twice and recorded; he is also a member of the David Liebman Big Band under the direction of Gunnar Mossblad. Since 1992 he has been a member of the IAJE Resource Team for Educational Festivals and Summer Jazz Studies, compiling directories for the JEJ. His writings include seven pages of the enclosure booklet for the 1997 CD The Urbie Green Quintet: Sea Jam Blues (Chiaroscuro CR[D]338); a chapter in the book Annual Review of Jazz Studies 8: 1996 (Institute of Jazz Studies and the Scarecrow Press, Inc.); and Confessions of a Sideman (May 1999 JEJ). He holds degrees from Ithaca College and Northwestern University.