Home   Pilates Classes   Trumpet Lessons   Jazz Improvisation   Piano for Adults   Live Jazz Entertainment   Contact Us

 

 

Piano

Nic Rodriguez

Richard Wyands

Ben Cahill

Spencer Caton

Douglas Miller

Tara Buzash

Gary Schaeffer

David Barry

 

Guitar

Lenny Pogan

Jim Popik

Luke Abruzzo

Gabe

 

Vocalists

Sue Giles

Laura McMillan

Jane Arthur

Deena Cahill

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Principles of Teaching

 

I was often placed in leadership positions as a child,

I enjoyed the responsibility of making decisions,

but even moreso did I accept the challenge

 of helping everyone feel a part, of being fair-minded

and sensitive to the feelings and needs of others.

 

This natural tendency to leadership and service

followed me into adulthood, and so

my "resume" is a record of working with others

of taking responsibility, sharing and teaching

the talents, skills, and passions of my life

physical work, athletics, music, Pilates

meditations of the spirit

 

I have come to accept that whoever we are

and whatever we are doing,

we are always doing "the best that we can"

and have guided my teaching by identifying

achievable goals, basic fundamentals and principles

that can be practiced one simple step at a time

 

it is always a question of sensing

what the very next right thing is to ask of another

and to ask with kindness and enthusiasm

after all, what is the point?

for me it is the joy and wholesomeness

of life

                                             

 

 John Henry Goldman, Bio 

Current

StraightJazz Entertainment, Music Director

A School for Music and Pilates, Director

Pilates Instructor, Princeton University

1988-present

Managing Partner, Martha Cecilia LLC

a Consulting/Teaching Corporation

2000-2010

Instructor, Anthony Rabara Studio for Pilates

Pilates Mat Instructor

area clubs, schools, and organizations

1993-2002

Director, The Basketball Club, West Windsor, NJ

1988-1992

Director, Leading Tone Musical Workshop

1975-1988

Director, Camp Takajo, Naples, Maine

Music Program Head

1975

Manager, Graduate Communications, EST NYC

1972-1974

Foreman, Chardavogne Gardens, Warwick, NY

Orchard Pruner - Orange County, NY

1970-1971

Maintenance, Camp Takajo, Naples, Maine

StraightJazz Credo

 

one wishes to accompany

rather than to be the center of attention

so that at times the music is almost barely noticeable

and at others radiates an uplifting spirit and vitality

attentive and responsive at all times

to people and surroundings

never to impose a mood, or interfere

with the possibility of intimate conversation

always to imply the dance and thythm and joy of life

so that when it stops you know that something is missing

and when it starts again, you relax once more

into an atmosphere imbued

with friendship and good company

 

                                            

 

A Partial List of Gigs

 

Concerts and Performances

Conversations in Jazz Concert Series

Ambassadors of Jazz Performances at the

Labyrinth Bookstore Concert Series

and the Summer Series at Tre Piani

Tuesday Night Jazz at Sunny Garden

 

Venues

Philadelphia Union League

Newark Club

Weehawken Chart House

Sayen Gardens

D&R Greenway

Salt Creek Grille

Jasna Polana

Johnson Education Center

Stockton Inn

Cranbury Inn

 

Benefits and Fundraisers

West Windsor Arts Council

Boys and Girls Club of Trenton

Crawford House for Women

NJ Appleseed Public Interest Law Center

Junior League of Greater Princeton

Center for Educational Advancement

Lymphoma Research Foundation

 

Corporate and Private Events

lululemon athletica Opening Celebration

Princeton U. Athletic Dept. Holiday Party

Capital Health System Magnet Celebration

NJ AARP Volunteers Holiday Celebration

Liberty Mutual National Award Celebration

Princeton South Corporate Center Opening 

 

 

 

Bass

Lisle Atkinson

Tom McMillan

Jason Fraticelli

 

Drums/

Percussion

Joe Falcey

Chuggy Carter

Tom Hyland

Peter Adelmann

Mike Ipri

Brandon Lewin

 

Saxophone/

Flute

David Homan

Steve Rozak

Jon Thompson

Tom Verdi

Alexandra Suarez

 

Trombone

Frank Rein

 

Trumpet

Jimmy Maxwell

John Henry Goldman

Rick Rein

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Please call:  609-610-1655