2021

I am well, and have had both vaccine shots. My wife works in health care, and my son, Alex, is 17 and plays the tenor saxophone and the lute. I, at my old age, am working on my doctorate of music education at Boston University, and am still the music department chair at Besant Hill School, a small boarding school in Ojai, California. Outside of teaching and going to grad school, I still play a lot of guitar and compose a lot of music. I am really looking forward to a return to normal so I can start playing in front of people live again. I also have really enjoyed presenting research papers at conferences on music, African American music, and jazz music.