Renowned Musician, Composer, Conductor, Arranger
Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Choice Award Best Trombone 2014, 2013 and 2012
Downbeat Magazine’s Critics Choice “Rising Star Award” Tuba 2014
Jazz Journalists Association Award/Trombonist of the Year – 2013, 2012, 2011, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2002, 2001
Jazz Journalists Association Critics’ Choice Award for Best Trombone – 2000
Former veteran member of the Wynton Marsalis Septet
Former member of Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra
Featured guest artist on Billy Taylor’s “Jazz at the Kennedy Center” Series
Performance experience includes work with Dizzy Gillespie, Lionel Hampton, Tommy Flanagan, Shirley Horn, Joe Henderson, Eric Reed, Randy Sandke and Branford Marsalis, plus many top players from the swing and traditional jazz world
Compositions performed by the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, Wycliffe Gordon and Friends, the Brass Band of Battle Creek and numerous other ensembles, and performed in programs throughout the U.S. and abroad