I’ve always enjoyed writing original music. In high school, my dear friend Robert Eckert and I collaborated on a pop ballad. It was fun to collaborate with him and we dreamed of bigger things, copyrighting it for all of eternity(me). Though Robert and I never wrote together again, I was ready for more and have written music ever since.
For many years I focused on writing for whatever band I was a member of. That included jazz bands and some Top 40 bands. My skills as lyricist were… horrible!, but I enjoyed working with other lyricists as well as writing jazz instrumentals. Over the course of my writing career, I have been hired by songwriters to help them refine their original compositions, by lyricists who needed a musician to turn their words into song, and by a few business entities in need of special music for an event or a marketing campaign. And once or twice for friends who were producing a low-budget film that needed scoring.
