Prolific singer-songwriter and brilliant guitarist with a jazz and world music influence, Jim was the voice on ”Common Ground” with the Paul Winter Consort. Over several decades, Jim’s performed in all 50 states and Canada, Europe, and Australia, including in concert at Carnegie Hall, the Newport Jazz Festival with the Paul Winter Consort, in Nicaragua with Holly Near, and the historic concert for the Great Peace March with Pete Seeger and Peter Yarrow. Jim has shared the stage with John Denver, Joan Baez, 10,000 Maniacs, Joni Mitchell, Jackson Browne, Dan Fogelberg, Odetta, and Tom Chapin. For his album “Earth, Sky, Love and Dreams”, Jim brought together renowned friends, Steve Gadd, Tony Levin, Nelson Rangell and Ed Tossing in a collection of powerful ecological anthems. Along with his songs, choral music, and orchestral creations, Jim collected and arranged the “Earth and Spirit Songbook,” an anthology of 110 songs of earth and peace by many contemporary songwriters.