Wise's solo debut onto the music scene came with the 1989 Top 30 Single, "Standing Outside in the Rain" on the European pop charts.
Teaming up with high school friend, Ed Cohen, Skipper formed a contemporary jazz group, Windows, which released 11 albums from the 1980s through the early 1990s.
Windows, an instrumental contemporary jazz group signed with ITI Records in 1983 and included Skipper (Bassist), Ed Cohen (keyboard), Dudley Brooks (guitar), Tim Timmermans (drums) and Michael Acosta (saxophone).
Windows, the self-titled album was released in 1983 on ITI Records and received positive reviews that allowed the group to play locally and create a small following.
In 1996, Skipper, along with Les Pierce (of Colour Club), released the eleventh and final Windows album, A Funky Distinction.
In late 1987, Skipper produced and contributed writing to the album Vibrate from the Spencer Davis Group released in Spain.
From Skipper's first solo album The Clock and the Moon, the single "Standing Outside in the Rain" (co-written with Peter White) was picked up by KTWV-The Wave in Los Angeles, who at the time played almost no vocal material.
"[4] Upon its release, the album reached Number One on the NAC radio charts and Skipper sang the lone vocal track "Play Your Guitar For Me."
One of the early sessions yielded the song, "I Want to Be With You," written with Peter White and released as a single on the Crisis record label in Europe.
Colour Club, the self-titled album was released on the JVC label in early 1994 and reached number 5 on the NAC radio charts.
The video for the single, "Freedom Words" was shot in Zuma Beach, Malibu in Southern Calif and produced by Mitchel Linden.
Now with a permanent singer Lisa Taylor, the album yielded three singles: "Be Yourself" which charted in the top 40 in Japan; "If it's all Good" and "Pearls."
Martins, an electronics engineer, was able to fix the vintage European microphones necessary for Skipper to capture the audiophile sound of Jazz records required under his contracts.
[6] In 2008, Skipper and Martins sold Blue Microphones to Transom Capital, a private Equity firm from Southern California.