- He received his bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees from the University of Illinois, and joined the University of Michigan music faculty in 1966, retiring in 2006.
- He was a jazz pianist, bandleader, composer, arranger, historian and teacher.
- His jazz orchestra performed several times on the radio show "A Prairie Home Companion." They also appeared at Manhattan's Town Hall, the Smithsonian, the Kennedy Center, Chicago's Orchestra Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival, and Carnegie Hall.
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