1. About Bret (home)
2. About his Bird Lives website
3. Sample Diatribe: "Fight The Power"
4. Sample Twisted Tale: "Branford Tells Wynton"
5. Bret's thoughts on Jazz

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A Jazz enthusiast since the age of twelve, he is the author of nearly three hundred articles about musicians for JazzTimes, Down Beat, Omni, People and Swing Journal. In addition to journalism, he has also written liner notes for such artists as McCoy Tyner, Clark Terry, Ella Fitzgerald, Paquito D'Rivera and Maynard Ferguson.

An interest in drama led Bret to co-found the Jazz Theatre Workshop in 1979, which produced the off-Broadway sensation, "Bebop, The Hip Musical," featuring Gary Bartz, Walter Davis, Jr., and Charli Persip. In 1992, he conducted the workshop at the New School for Social Research in New York, writing and directing two original musicals with students from the Jazz program, "All Saxophonists Will Be Shot On Sight," and "Scenes From A Life In Jazz."

Bret served as Director of Jazz Central Station, the largest jazz website, from the fall of 1996 until September of '97 although he was associated with the site since it's inception in 1995, serving as Managing Editor for its debut on the Microsoft Network, and later on the web in early '96. He also wrote and produced the official Miles Davis website.

A resident of Brooklyn, NY, Bret is the author of "The Ben Hecht Show," published MacFarland and Company. His play about Hecht's World War II propaganda efforts to save the dying Jews of Europe, "The Pariah," was produced in 1995 at the Schoolhouse Theatre in Croton Falls, New York.