In high school Steve played in local bands performing at dances, weekend resorts and local night clubs.

At age seventeen Steve went on the road, and joined a Toronto based R&B group that travelled extensively in Ontario and Quebec.

While on the road the decision to become a professional musician was made followed with music studies at Berklee School of Music in Boston, majoring in composition and arranging. While at Berklee Steve taught in the private studies program at the school, and performed gigs with fellow students and teachers.

Returning to Canada Steve recorded numerous CBC radio and television shows as both a leader and a sideman, and had the privilege  to record with Dave Hildinger and Ottawa's great alto sax legend Hugh O'Connor and let's never forge the great Norm Clark.  

Steve met pianist Cecil Taylor in Montreal at the Rising Sun jazz club in the late seventies and moved to New York shortly after. Over the next fifteen years Steve played with hundreds of musicians in every style of music. Including Jazz, Blues, Gospel, Funk, Top Pop, Reggae, Rock, Big Band, Avant Garde, Free, Classical & Swing. 

Bands like the legendary Holmes Brothers (84-89), the award winning big band the Multi National Band (79-81), Honkey Tonkin' Percy France (77-79), the great jazz saxophonist Charlie Rouse (Round Midnight), and let's not forget the Doctor, master of all keyboards Lonnie Smith. The list could take fifteen years to remember.

 

Today Steve lives in Ottawa, Canada, and as the founder of 7th Son Records, has produced recordings for Bobby Stars, Tanya O'Day,  Nicky Brodie, Raven Desneiges, Aki Takahashi.

 

As well Steve continues to teach at The Ottawa Guitar School