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Jim is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who has toured and recorded internationally with such world class performers as Sammy Davis Jnr, The Bee Gees, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Alan Broadbent and Mavis Rivers.<\/p>\nJim is a saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who has toured and recorded internationally with such world class performers as Sammy Davis Jnr, The Bee Gees, The Temptations, The Four Tops, Alan Broadbent and Mavis Rivers.<\/p>\n
Jim, is a guest soloist with the Prohibition Big Band, and is featured instrumentalist and featured soloist in the Prohibition Jazz Experience and the Prohibition Swingtet. He also leads and plays in a number of other New Zealand Bands and occasionally records and plays in New York. Jim also recorded and broadcast a program on flute and alto flute with the Russ Garcia Jazz Orchestra.<\/p>\n
Jim has tutored at the New Zealand School of Jazz and the University of Auckland and also gives private lessons on saxophone and flute.<\/p>\n
During a discussion in 2011 with friend and editor of Flute Focus<\/a>, Mary O’Brien, on how easy or difficult it was to learn to improvise and to teach someone to improvise, Jim argued that nearly any musician could learn in under ten minutes and to make his point, picked up his flute and demonstrated how it could be done. Mary proceeded to film the demonstration on her cell phone. Her husband Maurice did the uploading.<\/p>\n
Here are the 2011 video and the subsequent six part series:<\/p>\n