Jack came up in the early rock scene of Santa Cruz — a pianist and keyboardist who played with Asleep at the Wheel and Commander Cody, toured with country singer Lacy J. Dalton, and spent 25 years teaching songwriting in California prisons through the Arts in Corrections program. He found his way into Vintage Noise through Steve Larkin, and brought with him a lifetime of musical experience that had crossed every genre imaginable before landing, naturally, in a jazz and bossa nova ensemble.
Jack was the band’s first steady pianist — the one who helped shape the warm, swinging elegance that still defines the Vintage Noise sound today. He and Steve have a pocket together that takes most musicians years to find. Though he has stepped back from regular appearances, when Jack returns the band settles into something immediately familiar — like a conversation that picks up exactly where it left off.