"...I thought your playing was raw and real....
...what really impressed me was the soul in the music you played...
...that's the part that touched me, touches other people..." David DeSoucey(NY), gifted bass player

Comments from Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee
Professor A. Tsubaki, Kansas University, Lawrence, KS
Professor P. Havley, Missouri Southern State College, Joplin, MO
Professor E. Hamilton, San Diego Mesa Community College, San Diego, CA
Japanese Consulate, Kansas City, MO

Three Treasures Zen Center, Vista, CA
Sandhills Zen Group, Southern Pines, NC
Zen Center of San Diego, San Diego, CA

Jim's Letter from San Diego, CA after I played for their Meditation Group)

San Diego Union Tribune, July 28, 1997