i took weekly classical clarinet lessons from age 11 to 16, played in hs band,and doodled on our baby grand, untaught. swapped clarinet for sax, played a few jazz gigs in college then put the sax away at 21 and did no music except piano doodling, and sitting in on vocals at little Long Island cocktail bars.
At the age of 35 I rented a loft in Manhattan at 14 E23rd st. which began as just a place for amateurs and semi-pro jazzers like myself to jam, but amazingly starting in 1975 grew into Jazzmania Society, one of the major venues on the Loft Jazz scene of the 70's, and had a 10-year run. i freelanced on sax and vocals until i moved to Miami in 1993, and opened MoJazz Cafe on Miami Beach in 1993, which ran 5 years. i started using arranger kbd in 2000
and worked solo gigs, then i met my percussionist Madafo in 2003 and we've worked as duo since. If you go to my site
at http://myspace.com/momorgen and hit on the bio link, you'll see my entire history as a presenter and musician. the guys who set it up didn't lay it out well, and it's very run-on and a pain to read, but it's all there.

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Miami Mo