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This year has been great for learning new things:I just returned from Jazz at Lincoln Center's Band director's Academy where I learned a ton about directing jazz bands and teaching jazz concepts.I am...
View ArticleHot Question at LinkedIn.com (Jazz Education Network Group)
Hot Question at LinkedIn.com (Jazz Education Network Group)Since the "record deal" is basically dead and university teaching positions are scarce, what's next? What do we tell our students? I actually...
View ArticleWhich is Better?
12/15/11Today, reading short papers by my Jazz History class students, I came across something a student wrote that I found very intersting. The student was writing about the neo-traditionalist era...
View ArticleAward Winning Musicians from Nashville in concert with my Jazz Trio
This Tue., Feb. 5 at the Temple Theatre in Sanford at 7pm, a jazz concert featuring three of the Nashville, Tenn. musicians from the current Temple Theatre production, "Swinging Cowboys," team up with...
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I have some exciting jazz performances coming up. I will be playing the Art Pepper role in the band Quintessence in their performance of music arranged for Art Pepper by Marty Paich at the Broad Street...
View ArticleAt the finals of the 2016 Jazz at Lincoln Center Essentially Ellington...
In February 2016 we were selected as one of the top fifteen high school jazz big bands in the country and that was such an honor. But nothing could compare to being at the competition from May 5-7 in...
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