I have loved music from an early age - growing up in Baltimore, MD - the oldest of three sons of deaf parents, I started playing the trumpet in the third grade at Leith Walk Elementary School, and this lasted until seventh grade - junior high school - when I gave it up. But my best friend, Page Haacke, talked me into picking it up again to be part of a soul band being formed by his brother and friends - "Bill James & The Expressions" - playing music that Page & I loved - James Brown and especially the Stax/Volt Memphis sound of Otis Redding, Sam & Dave, and Booker T & The MG's...(visit my cdbaby pages for the rest...)