J.T. has performed in several successful Cleveland based dance bands over the past 20 years. The JT3 is his first group exclusive to the jazz idiom, although that was always his first dream. Previous projects served him well as a primary source of income for years, as well as, offering him a developmental process for performance and business experience within the local Cleveland musical community, both corporate and the club scene. He has taught private lessons for years, and continues to take on a few students within the context of an active schedule.

J.T. has always felt a special affinity for the trio format within the realm of musical idioms. For him, the jazz trio allows a grander, more extensive openness to listen and relate with in a musical context than other vehicles.

He feels strongly that jazz is the most "spiritual" of all musical forms. And with that, he believes in the attempt to let the music and its spirit be guided by the unlimited possibilities within the Field of Pure Potentiality, rendering a pathway for risks taken subject to vulnerablity. This path allows and creates adventure in the chances each performance endures and lives for, yet the existence of these risks, as with love, affords the opportunity for art that is willing to attempt its creative regenerative force on a per gig/per composition basis.

J.T. believes a musician is defined by his "tone" and his sense of trying to be musically tasteful. While each is both individual and legitimate, they will always be guided by each artist's clarity of thought and colored by his ability to explore passion. This is sincerely and respectfully given testimony and honor to in the "Most Inspiring" introspective.

J.T.'s personal philosophy is simplified by saying.......................... The universe is essentially energy and the information that guides that energy. For him there is LOVE and CREATIVITY, at least when we are at our best. Really ....... what else is there?

"Expect the BEST! .................... 'cause your Attitude is everything." 

Jazz Standards

A Foggy Day
All Of You
All The Things You Are
Alone Together
Angel Eyes
Autumn Leaves
Beautiful Love
Besame Mucho
Black Orpheus
Blue Bossa
Bluesette
Body & Soul
Cherokee
Come Rain Or Come Shine
Corcovado
Desifinado
East Of The Sun
Estate
Everything I Love
Fly Me To The Moon
Four
Gentle Rain
Girl From Ipanema
Green Dolphin Street
Have You Met Miss Jones
Here’s That Rainy Day
How Deep Is The Ocean
How High The Moon
How Insensitive
If You Never Come To Me
I’m All Smiles
In A Mellow Tone
I Remember April
I Remember You
It Could Happen To You
It’s Almost Like Being In Love
Just Friends
Ladybird
Let’s Fall In Love
Lover Man
Meditation
Moonlight In Vermont
My Shining Hour
My Favorite Things
My Funny Valentine
Nature Boy
Night & Day
One Note Samba
Over The Rainbow
Satin Doll
Spring Can Really Hang You Up The Most
Stella By Starlight
Someday My Prince Will Come
Summertime
The Days Of Wine & Roses
The Night Has A 1000 Eyes
There Will Never Be Another You
The Shadow Of Your Smile
The Way You Look Tonight
Too Close For Comfort
Watch What Happens
Wave
What A Wonderful World
When Sunny Gets Blue
Witchcraft
Yesterdays

Pop/Rock Improv
Africa
Ain't No Sunshine
Always There
At Last
California Dreamin'
Classical Gas
Eleanor Rigby
Free Bird
I Can't Make You Love Me
I Don't Know Why
JT's Guitar Boogie
Light My Fire
Marry Me
Moondance
Morning Dance
Rhiannon
Riders On The Storm
Rollin' In The Deep
September
Sleepwalk
Sunny
This Masquerade
25 or 6 to 4
Stairway To Heaven
Viva La Vida
While My Guitar Gently Weeps

Available upon request.