James is a saxophonist and teacher in Canyon/Amarillo, Texas, where he serves as the Assistant Professor of Saxophone at West Texas A&M University, maintaining an active saxophone studio, directing a university jazz ensemble, and overseeing the athletic pep band.
He earned a Doctor of Musical Arts degree from Texas Tech University where he was a graduate teaching assistant for the studio of David Dees. He was a founding member and the current soprano saxophone chair of the Mirasol Quartet, which is dedicated to its mission of education through chamber music and has been recognized internationally.
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James is proud to endorse Selmer Saxophones and D'Addario Reeds as a performing artist and serves as a D'Addario Reserve Method Clinician.
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