Gary Dooms,began playing the saxophone at age nine. He purchased his first album that year, “The Very Best Of Ray Stevens.” His formal education started in 1982 with a performance scholarship at UMKC Conservatory of Music where he studied classical music by day and vintage and smooth jazz in his spare time. By age 16 he played professionally in Kansas City as a warm up for jazz guitarist Pat Metheny, who has topped all of the major jazz polls for more than a decade. In 1991 he was the Grand Prize Winner of Branson’s “That’s Show Biz” talent contest, which, ironically led to the start of his Branson career playing with none other than Ray Stevens, 1991-93. He went on to play at other Branson shows, including “At The Hop,” “The Mickey Gilley Show” and “Lost In The 50’s.” In 2003 he joined the internationally televised “Jim Bakker Show,” writing and playing the television theme song daily.