Clinic Description: Presenting a practice method that is geared to helping improvisers, at any level develop their individual voice. Subjects covered include transcription, directional combinations, intervallic families, diatonic improvisation, improvisation using chromatic passing tones, use of the melodic minor scale and poly-tonal superimposition. Rick has 10 albums out as a leader, and has performed with Miles Davis, Chick Corea, McCoy Tyner, Maria Schnieder and Dave Douglas.