I have been awarded the position of Tenured Instructor in the Music Department at City College of San Francisco (effective 8/13). I teach History of Jazz as well as guitar classes. I have also been very active in departmental and school-wide efforts to save CCSF from being shrunk and sold off to private interests. No kidding about this -- it's a nationwide trend and scandal.Over the past few years I've composed a lot music for Jeff Sanford's Cartoon Jazz Band (big band and septet), including one selection on the CD CARTOON LOGIC (released 6/03/13 on Digital Victrola Recordings) and one on MORE CARTOON LOGIC (to be released 11/01/13). I produced a concert of Cartoon Jazz at Stanford University on 2/01/13. I composed the first original work written expressly for Cartoon Jazz, "Aluminum Sunset: a Tribute to the Music of Raymond Scott" (2009-2010). I was awarded a Subito grant from the American Composers Forum in 2010 to support completion of this work.Other recent works include a set of duets for piano and cello, "Thumb and Variations", dedicated to the memory of iconic country guitarist Jerry Reed, and "Passages", a setting of three poems for soprano voice, violin and piano. Continuing collaboration with renowned classical and jazz pianist Frederick Harris, for whom I composed "Earth Tones" an eclectic six-movement work for solo piano (2009).To be continued...