Jimmy received his first guitar at age thirteen and over fifty years developed broad musical tastes and talents including blues, funk, jazz-fusion, rock, folk, acoustic fingerstyle, and R & B. During his career he performed at many festivals including the Rocky Mountain Folks Festival and the Oregon Summer Solstice Festival and he has opened for such diverse luminaries as David Wilcox, Delbert McClinton, Blues Traveler, Larry Coryell, Richard Elliott, and America.  Early on, he earned the nickname “Jammin’ Jimmy” through his ability to sit in and improvise across genres on virtually any kind of guitar, including slide, lap steel, acoustic, electric, resonator, and ukulele.

Jimmy has shared his love for music via his other passion, teaching - in one-on-one and group lessons, as director and instructor for the Yamaha Rock School, and during his multi-media presentation “Wood & Steel: A Brief History of the Guitar.”  Jimmy has written and produced CD’s with his last four collaborative projects and offers professional tracking, mixing, and editing services at Hummingbird Studio. He has provided live sound engineering for artists such as Del McCoury Band, Nickle Creek, String Cheese Incident, Robert Randolph and the Family Band, and The Voice’s Kris Allen and Kristen Merlin. He composed and produced an original soundtrack, and is currently working in the studio creating sync music for film, television, and ads.