Born in Forest Hills, New York Dave started studying the sax in 1971 at 9 years old. His first impressionable contact with jazz was in 1974 in his junior high school big band when he saw the older musicians improvising. From that time on he started listening to, transcribing and playing jazz. His greatest influences from that time were, Charlie Parker, Sonny Stitt, John Coltrane and Michael Brecker. Also in 1974 Dave started working professionally playing school dances and private parties in his first band "Stretch and the Rubber Bands". »Click Here for more
