Michael J. Gold

Michael Gold, Ph.D. has been working as a jazz bassist since the mid 1970's. While working in the NYC jazz scene he performed with Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Al Cohn, Sheila Jordan and Tal Farlow. In 1995, while running the jazz program at Vassar College, Michael received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to teach professional orchestral musicians how to improvise jazz. He is the president of Jazz Impact, LLC. Jazz Impact (tm) is a learning and development program that uses jazz as a metaphor to help people learn how to maximize their collaborative potential in the context of a rapidly changing world.

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