James Reid Trippe was born in New York, 1962. Jim graduated from New Trier High School

New Trier High School

New Trier High School is a public four-year high school , with its major campus located in Winnetka, Illinois, USA, and a second campus in Northfield, Illinois, with freshman classes and district administration...

, Winnetka, Il. in 1980, and then Ithaca College

Ithaca College

Ithaca College is a private college located on the South Hill of Ithaca, New York. The school was founded by William Egbert in 1892 as a conservatory of music. The college has a strong liberal arts core, but also offers several pre-professional programs and some graduate programs. The college is...

 in 1985.

In High school he worked part time at Associated Audio Visual Corp., Evanston, Il, played varsity hockey and Lacrosse, (received the high scorer award). and performed locally with his band. In college he worked at Pyramid Sound Recording, Ithaca, NY and CMC Films, New York, NY. After graduating, he founded Audio Visual Arts, 110 Hudson St, New York, NY. Clients included Pyramid Sound, Anthrax

Anthrax (band)

Anthrax is an American heavy metal band from New York City, formed in 1981. Founded by guitarists Scott Ian and Danny Lilker, the band has since released ten studio albums and 20 singles, and an EP featuring Public Enemy. The band was one of the most popular of the 1980s thrash metal scene...

 Live, Bobby Brown

Bobby Brown

Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...

, Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Christopher "Chris" Stein is co-founder and guitarist in the New Wave band, Blondie. He is also a producer and performer for the classic soundtrack of the hip hop film Wild Style....

 / Debbie Harry

Debbie Harry

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers...

, David Beal / Michael Shrieve

Michael Shrieve

Michael Shrieve is an American drummer, percussionist, and later, an electronic music composer. He is best known as the drummer in Carlos Santana's eponymous band, playing on their first eight albums from 1969 through 1974...

, Dan Hartman

Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for such songs as: "Free Ride", "I Can Dream About You", "Instant Replay", "Love Sensation", and "Relight My Fire", all of which had world-wide success.-Career:Born in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg,...

, Joe Cocker

Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker, OBE is an English rock and blues musician, composer and actor, who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty voice, his idiosyncratic arm movements while performing, and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles...

, Peter Gabriel

Peter Gabriel

Peter Brian Gabriel is an English singer, musician, and songwriter who rose to fame as the lead vocalist and flautist of the progressive rock group Genesis. After leaving Genesis, Gabriel went on to a successful solo career...

, MCW featuring "Lenny Kravitz

Lenny Kravitz

Leonard Albert "Lenny" Kravitz is an American singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, record producer and arranger, whose "retro" style incorporates elements of rock, soul, R&B, funk, reggae, hard rock, psychedelic, folk and ballads...

", Force MD's, The Burn Sisters, Dick Scott Entertainment / MCA / Tiffany

Tiffany

-People:* Tiffany * Tiffany * Tiffany , an American pop artist* Tiffany , a K-pop artist* Charles Comfort Tiffany, American Episcopal clergyman* Charles Lewis Tiffany, a founder of Tiffany & Co....

, Motown / L. Cope, Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico

Ballet Hispanico is an American dance company based in Manhattan, New York. It was founded by the Venezuelan American dancer and choreographer Tina Ramirez in 1970 and presents dances reflecting the experience of Hispanic and Latino Americans...

, Paramount

Paramount Pictures

Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film production and distribution company, located at 5555 Melrose Avenue in Hollywood. Founded in 1912 and currently owned by media conglomerate Viacom, it is America's oldest existing film studio; it is also the last major film studio still...

-Famous, plus many more

In 1987 the company moved to 146 West 57th St, providing audio and location support services to the film and television industry. Clients included National Geographic, "Exhibit Tech" U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

 / "live at Yankee Stadium", Peterman/Dektor "Paul Newman

Paul Newman

Paul Leonard Newman was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, professional racing driver and auto racing enthusiast...

 at Lime Rock", Fuji Film Spot "Sting", Estee Lauder

Estée Lauder Companies

Estée Lauder Companies, Inc. is a manufacturer and marketer of prestige skincare, makeup, fragrance and hair care products. The company has its headquarters in Midtown Manhattan, New York City.-History:...

 "Paulina", HBO "Gram Chapman" EUE Screengems, "Molly Dodd", NBC

NBC

The National Broadcasting Company is an American commercial broadcasting television network and former radio network headquartered in the GE Building in New York City's Rockefeller Center with additional major offices near Los Angeles and in Chicago...

 / SNL Film Unit, Conde Naste "Grace Mirabella

Grace Mirabella

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", music video projects include: CBS Records

CBS Records

CBS Records is a record label founded by CBS Corporation in 2006 to take advantage of music from its entertainment properties owned by CBS Television Studios. The initial label roster consisted of only three artists; rock band Señor Happy and singer/songwriters Will Dailey and P.J...

/Propaganda Films-"Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen , nicknamed "The Boss," is an American singer-songwriter who records and tours with the E Street Band...

", Classic Concepts "Public Enemy", "LL Cool J

LL Cool J

James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J , is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor...

", "Naughty By Nature

Naughty by Nature

Naughty by Nature are a Grammy Award-winning American hip hop trio from East Orange, New Jersey that at the time of its formation in 1989 consisted of Treach, Vin Rock, and the DJ Kay Gee...

", Joan Jett

Joan Jett

Joan Jett is an American rock guitarist, singer, songwriter, producer and actress.She is best known for her work with Joan Jett & the Blackhearts including their hit cover "I Love Rock 'n' Roll", which was #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 from March 20 to May 1, 1982, as well as for their other popular...

, Duran Duran

Duran Duran

Duran Duran are an English band, formed in Birmingham in 1978. They were one of the most successful bands of the 1980s and a leading band in the MTV-driven "Second British Invasion" of the United States...

, Metallica

Metallica

Metallica is an American heavy metal band from Los Angeles, California. Formed in 1981 when James Hetfield responded to an advertisement that drummer Lars Ulrich had posted in a local newspaper. The current line-up features long-time lead guitarist Kirk Hammett and bassist Robert Trujillo ...

, Ace Frehley

Ace Frehley

Paul Daniel "Ace" Frehley is an American musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Kiss. He took on the persona of the "Spaceman" or "Space Ace" when the band adopted costumes and theatrics...

, Shelia E. plus many more. Print clients include: Bloomingdales, J. Crew, and Cosmopolitan

Cosmopolitan (magazine)

Cosmopolitan is an international magazine for women. It was first published in 1886 in the United States as a family magazine, was later transformed into a literary magazine and eventually became a women's magazine in the late 1960s...

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In 1989 Jim moved to Greenwich, CT, providing original music for film and video. Projects included the song "Spex" for the feature film "Misplaced" featuring David Torn

David Torn

David Torn is an American composer and guitarist.He is known for the organic blending/manipulation of electronic and acoustic instruments and performance techniques that have an atmospheric or textural quality and effect, along with a particular harmonic richness...

 on Guitar, also "Day Dream 2603", for Adirondack Entertainment, "Faith for Two", Park Side Films, "Out Dancing" Radar Records, and "Shadow Puppets" Harbor Associates, plus many more (see Attikus.com)

In 1994, Jim began to focus on photography and painting: exhibitions included shows at the Roger Smith Gallery, NYC, NY, and the Sundance Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY.
In 1995, Jim traveled Western America creating the photography book "Chasing Light", and exhibited at the Indian Field Gallery, Greenwich, CT.
In 1996, Jim lived in the Bahamas, creating paintings and prints, for the book "Harbour Island", exhibiting at Princess Street Gallery, and the Landing, Harbour Island

Harbour Island

Harbour Island is an island and administrative district in the Bahamas and is located off the northeast coast of Eleuthera Island. The only town on the island is Dunmore Town, named after the governor of the Bahamas from 1786 to 1798, John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore, who had a summer residence on...

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In 1997, Jim lived in Amagansett, NY, creating paintings and prints for the book "Peconic County", exhibiting at the Flinn Gallery, Greenwich, CT and Estia, Amagansett, NY.
In 1998, Jim moved back to Greenwich, creating paintings and prints for the book "Works on Paper", exhibiting in galleries in the Northeast.
In 2000, Jim began touring, doing art shows from Beverly Hills, to Key West, Fl.

In 2001, Jim completed the book "Abstract Impressions". His artwork's are now on almost every continent, and his mp3 "When I See You Again" and "Out Dancing" have been downloaded more than 750,000 times. His paintings are in the private collections of Alec Baldwin

Alec Baldwin

Alexander Rae "Alec" Baldwin III is an American actor who has appeared on film, stage, and television.Baldwin first gained recognition through television for his work in the soap opera Knots Landing in the role of Joshua Rush. He was a cast member for two seasons before his character was killed off...

, Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall

Daryl Hall is an American rock, R&B and soul singer, keyboardist, guitarist, songwriter and producer, best known as the co-founder and lead vocalist of Hall & Oates . Hall scored several Billboard chart hits in the 1970s and early 1980s, and is regarded as one of the best blue eyed soul singers...

, Dan Hartman

Dan Hartman

Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for such songs as: "Free Ride", "I Can Dream About You", "Instant Replay", "Love Sensation", and "Relight My Fire", all of which had world-wide success.-Career:Born in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg,...

, Joe Gibbs, Rachel Ward

Rachel Ward

Rachel Claire Ward, AM is a British actress, columnist, film director, and screenwriter who has primarily pursued her career in Australia.-Early life:...

, Starbucks

Starbucks

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, artist Bai Ji Kong, John Harris, and many others. Jim continues to show artwork around the country, and create music. He has won awards at Florida's largest festivals; Sunfest in Palm Beach, and The Delray Affair, Delray Beach. Also "Best in Show" The Waveny Carriage House Gallery, New Canaan, CT, White Plains Art Festival, NY, The Art Society of Old Greenwich, Ct. and others.

Trivia: Jim Trippe is the grandson of Juan Trippe

Juan Trippe

Juan Terry Trippe was an American airline entrepreneur and pioneer, and the founder of Pan American World Airways, one of the world's most prominent airlines of the twentieth century.-Early years:...

, founder of Pan American World Airways

Pan American World Airways

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, and the great nephew of Secretary of State Edward Stettinius, Jr.

Edward Stettinius, Jr.

Edward Reilly Stettinius, Jr. was United States Secretary of State under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945....

, under Presidents Franklin D. Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman, serving from 1944 to 1945. Also the great-great-great grandson of Lieutenant John Trippe

John Trippe

John Trippe was an officer in the United States Navy during the Quasi-War with France and the First Barbary War.-Biography:Born in Dorchester County, Maryland, Trippe was appointed a midshipman in the Navy on 5 April 1799...

, the Captain of USS Vixen

USS Vixen

Several ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Vixen:* The first Vixen was a schooner, launched in 1803 and captured by the British in 1812.* The second Vixen was a brig, purchased in 1813 and captured later that same year....

 Inspiring the first USS Trippe

USS Trippe

Four ships in the United States Navy have been named USS Trippe for John Trippe.* The first Trippe was purchased in 1812, served in the War of 1812 and was burned by the British....

 a sloop in the United States Navy during the War of 1812, followed by the USS Trippe (DD-33)

USS Trippe (DD-33)

The second USS Trippe was a in the United States Navy during World War I and later in the United States Coast Guard, designated '. She was named for Lieutenant John Trippe....

, USS Trippe (DD-403)

USS Trippe (DD-403)

The third USS Trippe was a in the United States Navy. She was named for John Trippe.-Operational history:Trippe was laid down on 15 April 1937 by the Boston Navy Yard, launched on 14 May 1938; sponsored by Miss Betty S. Trippe and placed in commission on 1 November 1939, Lt. Comdr. Robert L...

, and the USS Trippe (FF-1075)

USS Trippe (FF-1075)

USS Trippe was a Knox class frigate of the US Navy, built at Westwego, Louisiana, was commissioned in mid-September 1970. In July 1971, following shakedown training in the Caribbean area and a surveillance mission off Haiti, she entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for overhaul and installation of...

file links: (all music mp3's composed, engineered, and performed by Jim Trippe)
http://www.attikus.com/music/media01/Jim_Trippe_Good_To_Be_Out.mp3
http://www.attikus.com/music/media01/Jim_Trippe_I_ll_Be_There.mp3
http://www.attikus.com/music/media02/Jim_Trippe_When_I_See_You.mp3
http://www.jimtrippe.com/Jim_Trippe_Abstract_Impressions_77-99.pdf
http://www.jimtrippe.com/Jim_Trippe_Eastern_Long_Island_98-08.pdf
http://www.jimtrippe.com/Jim_Trippe_Landscapes_03-08.pdf
http://www.jimtrippe.com/Jim_Trippe_Waterscapes_03-08.pdf
http://www.jimtrippe.com/Jim_Trippe_Works_on_Paper_83-03.pdf
http://www.boathousepress.com/pdf/Harbour_Island-J_Trippe.pdf
http://www.boathousepress.com/pdf/01_Chasing_Light_Trippe.pdf

ref:

http://www.artrider.com
http://www.attikus.com
http://www.artfestival.com/
http://www.artandseek.com
http://cafe-artists.org
http://www.graciesquareartshow.org
http://www.montaukartistsassociation.org
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/05/07/style/blair-landau-is-married.html
http://www.paragonartevents.com/
http://www.sonoarts.org
http://www.sunfest.com
http://travel.yahoo.com/p-travelguide-10395242-joy_gallery_key_west-i
http://www.wptimes.com/round_town.php?viewspecific=1&storyid=1417
Naval Historical Center, Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships, List of United States Navy destroyers