Five Questions with Susi Amendola

Susi Amendola is a powerful healing tool. Susi is National Director of Stress Management for the prestigious Dean Ornish Program for reversing heart disease. She teaches others to be healing tools, and how to heal themselves. She teaches lifestyle as treatment of disease, not just prevention, within the Ornish program. Intensive Cardiac Rehab is now prescribed as […]

Five Questions with Michael “Gooch” Gurciullo

From Guy Lombardo and His Royal Canadians, to big band performances at Clint Eastwood’s ranch, to the lead/jazz trumpet chair in Wayne Newton’s band, trumpeter /vocalist Michael “Gooch” Gurciullo has been around, and back. Getting his musical education at North Texas State University, working with great jazz educators Rich Matteson, Dan Haerle, and Jack Peterson, […]

Five Questions with Steve Slagle

Multi-GRAMMY®-nominated, saxophonist/flutist, Steve Slagle was born in Los Angeles, CA, where he got his first saxophone, and later attended Berklee College of Music in Boston on a DownBeat scholarship. One of his first gigs, at the age of 18, was in the Stevie Wonder Band, in Boston. Often featured as a sideman, Slagle is a consummate leader, a bop […]