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pursue music. I can play sax pretty well, but I defer to YouTube when it comes to checking out the Franz Liszt music. I help in matters of learning how to practice and fig- uring out dense notation and fin- gerings on the keyboard. I’m basi- cally a charlatan. Guitar is my main instrument though, and I have a method book on improvisation and learning how to practice effi- ciently in the works. ow many students do you have and where? I have roughly 30 students, pri- marily at Absolute Music in Hazlet. I also have a few private students with whom I work on more ad- vanced playing. I have one student who is yet to perform publicly, and I feel like Dr. Frankenstein waiting to turn him loose on an unsuspect- ing village! Kevin Hill Trio, featuring Radam Schwartz, left, one of his jazz professors at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, and drummer Mike Heay. NJ STAGE - ISSUE 59 INDEX NEXT ARTICLE 50