1989 plays piano in a crack house blues band in South Minneapolis and listens to nothing but Miles, Monk, and Coltrane

1990 lands first really good paying gig as a dueling piano player/singer

1991 plays Holiday Inns and strip clubs across America as singer/keyboardist/guitarist/tap dancer in the Secret Agent Band

starts singing country music to satisfy the honky-tonk crowds of the Midwest

discovers Joni Mitchell, Bobby McFerrin and Michael Hedges

1993 sings and dances in The Medora Musical, North Dakota

1994 Medora Musical’s yodeler loses his voice, gives Jared a quick yodeling lesson and that same night, Jared has his yodeling debut

1997 plays drums, bass, guitar and piano in Pete Kavanaugh’s smokin’ blues rock band "Zookeeper"

sells a couple thousand copies of his own Yodeling CD

1998 tours the world with the international percussion sensation STOMP

2003 makes an album of original material in Boston with some of the finest musicians in the world

2004 moves to L.A. with family

gets nominated for Independent Album of the Year at the L.A. Music Awards!

WINS Independent Album of the Year at the L.A. Music Awards!

2005 …