Ichabod Digg Graves

" If you were to dedicate your life to ending suffering, exactly how would you do it?" James Harrison (Graff) - pen names "James Harrison", "Ichabod Digg Graves", "Varius N. Sundry and Miss A. Laneous", et al - is a world-class author, editor, designer, publisher, investment analyst/advisor (real estate, stocks, bonds, commodities, collectibles, currencies, etc.), health and longevity "nut", musician, father and husband. He comes from an entire family full of published non-fiction and fiction authors, poets, songwriters, editors, publishers, lecturers, and English professors. He memorized an abridged dictionary to score in the 99.9 percentile on the GRE (Graduate Record Exam - taken only by college and university graduates). He studied Finance, Marketing, Accounting, Management, Insurance, Public Policy, Real Estate, Business Law, and Economics at the Wharton Business School. He studied Systems, Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Engineering and Applied Sciences. He studied music history, theory composition, arranging, and ear training at the University of Pennsylvania. He studied music history and Jazz Performance at Florida Atlantic University. He was CFO at Thinkink OU in Tartu, Estonia, EU where he lived for eight years. He analyzed and managed real estate acquisitions: residential and commercial properties, Ilusion a 300-capacity cinema, Club Illusion a 2,000-capacity nightclub and live music venue, etc. He was a Certified Mortgage Loan Originator, Renovation Certified, and Certified Mortgage Advisor for Advisors Mortgage in New Jersey. But his real passion and forte is music. He was the "6th Most Viewed Musician in the World" on YouTube with over eight million video views, two hundred and fifty thousand "friends" and over four thousand subscribers on four channels. He is currently a professional, touring, virtuosic "omni-instrumentalist" singer. He has performed in front of tens of thousands of fans at a time, touring dozens of countries on five continents, playing with members of many, many internationally famous, "Hall of Fame", multi-Grammy award-winning, multi-platinum selling, multi-Billboard charting, recording and performing artists: Dream Theater, Rob Zombie, Marilyn Manson, Frank Sinatra Orchestra, Steve Vai, Steve Morse Band, Expose, Linear, Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine, Dion, The Platters, Dennis Yost of the Classics IV, Bertie Higgins, House of Games, The Mad Hatters, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Clarence Clemons and the Red Bank Rockers, etc. While living in Boca Raton and South Florida for eight years he sang and played keyboards and left-hand bass with Dennis Yost of the Classics IV whose late '60s hit songs include "Spooky", "Stormy" and "Traces of Love". He also sang and played keyboards and left-hand bass for Sir. Bertie Higgins whose hits include "Sailing Away to Key Largo", "Casablanca", and "Just Another Day in Paradise. The Bertie Higgins Band opened for the "Beach Boys" in front of 12,000 fans at the Miami Amphitheater on their Red Neck Riviera Tour. They also performed at the West Palm Beach auditorium to a sold-out crowd of 6,000 at The Hurricane Andrews Relief Concert featuring artists like Melanie ("I Got a Brand New Pair of Roller Skates"), Marty Balin of Jefferson Airplane, Micky Dolan of the Monkies, Governor Lawton Chiles, and Sharon Belden who was Miss Florida USA in 1992, went on to win Miss Florida World 1992, Miss World America 1992, and is now the State Director for Miss Florida World, etc. He then sang and played lead guitar and keyboards for Motor. Motor was voted "The Best Hard Rock Cover Band" and the "Second Best Hard Rock Original Band" in South Florida by an XM Magazine readers' poll. "Marilyn Manson opened up for us..." He sang and played keyboards for House of Games the opening act for WASP's World Domination Tour. House of Games performed and recorded live - auditioning for Road Runner Records - on international radio broadcast live to over 50,000 listeners at a music festival in the Netherlands. He currently tours with Crystal Ship the ultimate, touring tribute to The Doors. He sings and plays keyboards (vintage '60s Gibson G-101 or Vox Continental), left-hand bass (vintage "Sparkle" Rhodes Bass keyboard), harmonica, and alto/tenor saxophone (vintage 1965 Selmer Mark Vi) as Ray Manzarek. He has been practicing, studying, and playing music almost his entire life - for over fifty-five years - and teaching all voices and instruments for over forty-five years - much longer than many, many virtuosic, (perhaps less?) multi-talented, musical geniuses lived - Mozart, Gershwin, Mendelssohn, Bizet, Purcell, Parker, Coltrane, Powell, Tatum, Johnson, Holly, Valens, Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, Cobain, Winehouse, et al. He has been studying music all that time and now considers himself a bit of a "buff" or expert at music and trivia of all sorts. He and his child prodigy son, Joseph Graff, write in various genres and usually are launching a new book whilst working on the next. Look for their works wherever great literature is sold.