Trumpeter and a founding member of Earth, Wind & Fire. He has also arranged and conducted sessions for such as Marvin Gaye, New Birth and Sylvester and played big-band jazz with Cab Calloway, Gerald Wilson and Louis Bellson orchestras. He started his solo career in 1980 with an album %22Our Music Is Your Music%22 on his own Esoteric label and released many other albums too throughout the 80's and 90's.