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Sunday, September 23, 2018, 5:30pm Hearst Greek Theatre at Orchestra with and special guest Jon Batiste

Celebrating

Wynton Marsalis, music director, , trumpet Kenny Rampton, trumpet Marcus Printup, trumpet Vincent Gardner, Chris Crenshaw, trombone Elliot Mason, trombone Sherman Irby, alto and soprano , flute, clarinet Ted Nash, alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet , tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet Greg Tardy, tenor and soprano saxophones, clarinet Paul Nedzela, baritone and soprano saxophones, bass clarinet Dan Nimmer, piano Carlos Henriquez, bass Charles Goold drums

is evening’s program will be announced from the stage.

e performance will be performed without intermission and will last approximately 90 minutes.

Brooks Brothers is the official clothier of the Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis.

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he Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (1994); e Fire of the Fundamentals (1993); and with Wynton Marsalis (JLCO) com - Portraits by Ellington (1992). Visit jazz.org for Tprises 15 of the finest jazz soloists and more information. ensemble players today. Led by Wynton Mar - salis, Jazz at Lincoln Center’s managing and Jazz at Lincoln Center is dedicated to inspiring artistic director, this remarkably versatile or - and growing audiences for jazz. With the world- chestra performs a vast repertoire that ranges renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and from original compositions and Jazz at Lincoln a comprehensive array of guest artists, Jazz at Center-commissioned works to rare historic Lincoln Center advances a unique vision for the compositions and masterworks by Duke continued development of the art of jazz by pro - Elling ton, , , ducing a year-round schedule of performance, e lonious Monk, Mary Lou Williams, Dizzy education, and broadcast events for audiences Gilles pie, Benny Good man, , of all ages. ese productions include concerts, and many others. e JLCO has been the Jazz national and international tours, residencies, at Lincoln Center resident orchestra since 1988, weekly national radio programs, television performing and leading educational events in broad casts, recordings, publications, an annual New York, across the United States, and around high school jazz band competition and festival, the globe. Alongside symphony orchestras, a band director academy, jazz appreciation cur - ballet troupes, local students, and an ever- ricula for students, music publishing, children’s expanding roster of guest artists, the JLCO has concerts and classes, lectures, adult education toured over 300 cities across six continents. courses, student and educator workshops, a Guest conductors have included , record label, and interactive websites. Under the John Lewis, , Chico O’Farrill, Ray leadership of managing and artistic director Santos, Paquito D’Rivera, , Robert Wynton Marsalis, chairman Robert J. Appel, Sadin, David Berger, , and Loren and executive director Greg Scholl, Jazz at Lin - Schoenberg. e JLCO has been voted best big coln Center produces thousands of events each band in the annual Down Beat Readers’ Poll for season in its home in , Frederick the past four years. P. Rose Hall, and around the world. For more In 2015 Jazz at Lincoln Center announced the information, visit jazz.org. launch of Blue Engine Records, a new platform to make its archive of recorded concerts avail - Wynton Marsalis is the managing and artistic able to jazz audiences everywhere. e first director of Jazz at Lincoln Center and a world- release from Blue Engine Records, Live in Cuba, renowned trumpeter and composer. Born in was recorded on an historic 2010 trip to Havana , Louisiana in 1961, Marsalis began by the JLCO and was released in October 2015. his classical training on trumpet at age 12, en - Holidays was released in December tered the at age 17, and then 2015, e Abyssinian Mass came out in March joined and the Jazz Messengers. He 2016, and e Music of John Lewis came out in made his recording debut as a leader in 1982, March 2017. Handful of Keys , featuring a group and has since recorded more than 60 jazz and of all-star guest pianists, arrived in September classical recordings, which have won him nine 2017. To date, 14 other recordings featuring the Grammy Awards. In 1983 he became the first JLCO have been released and distributed inter - and only artist to win both classical and jazz nationally: Vitoria Suite (2010); Portrait in Seven Grammys in the same year (he repeated this feat Shades (2010); Congo Square (2007); Don’t Be in 1984). Marsalis is also an internationally Afraid…e Music of Charles Mingus (2005); A respected teacher and spokesman for music ed - Love Supreme (2005); All Rise (2002); Big Train ucation, and has received honorary doctorates (1999); Sweet Release & Ghost Story (1999); Live from dozens of US universities and colleges. He in Swing City (1999); Jump Start and Jazz (1997); has written six books; his most recent are (1997); ey Came to Swing Squeak, Rumble, Whomp! Whomp! Whomp! ,

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illustrated by Paul Rogers and published by charts as the No. 1 jazz album in the world. Candlewick Press in 2012, and Moving to Higher Batiste is also a coveted brand ambassador fea - Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life with tured in campaigns for Chase, Apple, Lincoln Geoffrey C. Ward, published by Random House Motor Company, and numerous fashion brands, in 2008. In 1997 Marsalis became the first jazz including Bonobos, Ralph Lauren, Barney’s, and artist to be awarded the prestigious Pulitzer Nordstrom. He has worked with photographers Prize in music for his oratorio Blood on the including Annie Leibowitz, and his personal Fields, which was commissioned by Jazz at style has been profiled in various fashion publi - Lincoln Center. In 2001 he was appointed cations, including GQ , Vanity Fair , and Vogue . Messenger of Peace by Kofi Annan, Secretary- Batiste’s mission is to share his faith, hope, and General of the United Nations, and he has also love with the world around him. been designated cultural ambassador to the United States of America by the US State Chris Crenshaw (trombone ) was born in Department through its Culture Connect pro - omson, Georgia on December 20, 1982. Since gram. Marsalis was instrumental in the Higher birth, he has been driven by and surrounded Ground Hurricane Relief concert, produced by by music. When he started playing piano at age Jazz at Lincoln Center. e event raised more three, his teachers and fellow students noticed than $3 million for the Higher Ground Relief his aptitude for the instrument. is love for Fund to benefit the musicians, music industry- piano led to his first gig with Echoes of Joy, his related enterprises, and other individuals and father Casper’s gospel quartet group. Crenshaw entities from the areas in Greater New Orleans started playing the trombone at 11, receiving who were affected by Hurricane Katrina. Mar - honors and awards along the way; he graduated salis helped lead the effort to construct Jazz from omson High School in 2001 and re - at Lincoln Center’s home—Frederick P. Rose ceived his bachelor’s degree with honors in jazz Hall—the first education, performance, and performance from Valdosta State University in broadcast facility devoted to jazz, which opened 2005. Crenshaw was named Most Outstanding in October 2004. Student in the VSU music department and Col lege of Arts. In 2007 he received his master’s Jon Batiste (piano ) is an internationally ac - degree in jazz studies from the Juilliard School, claimed musician, bandleader, and composer. where his teachers included Dr. Douglas Farwell As an educator and television personality, he and Wycliffe Gordon. Crenshaw has appeared spreads his unbridled optimism coupled with a as a sideman on fellow JLCO trumpeter Marcus profound understanding of the arts. Born into a Printup’s Ballads All Night and on Wynton Mar - long lineage of New Orleans musicians, Batiste salis and Play the Blues . He joined earned his master’s degree at the Juilliard School. the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2006, Aer graduating, he toured globally with his and in 2012 composed God’s Trom bones , a spir - band Stay Human and he currently appears itually-focused work that was premiered by the nightly on national television as the bandleader orchestra at Jazz at Lincoln Center. and musical director for e Late Show with Stephen Colbert . Batiste is a Forbes “30 under 30” Vincent Gardner (trombone ) was born in Chi - honoree, musical director for e Atlantic , and cago in 1972 and was raised in Hampton, creative director of the National Jazz Museum Virginia. Aer singing, playing piano, violin, in Harlem. He balances a demanding perform - , and French horn at an early age, ance schedule with speaking engagements, he decided, at age 12, to focus on the trombone. curating events, and occasional acting and pro - Gardner attended Florida A&M University and ducing opportunities, all while relentlessly com - the University of North Florida. He soon caught posing new music. His album Social Music spent the ear of Mercer Ellington, who hired Gardner over a month atop the Billboard and iTunes jazz for his first professional job. He moved to

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Brook lyn, New York, aer graduating from col - Victor Goines (tenor and soprano saxophones, lege, completed a world tour with Lauryn Hill clarinet, bass clarinet ) is a native of New Orleans, in 2000, and then joined the JLCO. Gardner has Louisiana. He has been a member of the Jazz served as an instructor at the Juilliard School, at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the Wynton visiting instructor at Florida State University and Marsalis Septet since 1993, touring throughout Michigan State University, and adjunct instruc - the world and recording over 20 albums. As a tor at the New School. He is currently the leader, Goines has recorded seven albums in - director of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Youth cluding Pastels of Ballads and Blues (2007) and Or ches tra, and he has contributed many Love Dance (2007) on Criss Cross Records, and arrange ments to the JLCO and other ensembles. Twilight (2012) on Rosemary Joseph Records. In 2009 he was commissioned by Jazz at Lincoln A gied composer, Goines has more than 50 Center to write e Jesse B. Semple Suite , a original works to his credit, including 2014’s 60-minute suite inspired by the short stories of Crescent City , premiered by the Jazz at Lincoln Langston Hughes. Gardner is also a popular in - Center Orchestra. He has recorded and/or structor for Jazz at Lincoln Center’s ongoing jazz performed with many noted jazz and popular education program, Swing University, teaching artists, including Ahmad Jamal, , courses on and more. He is featured on a , , , number of notable recordings and has recorded , , Branford five CDs as a leader for Steeplechase Records. Mar salis, Ellis Marsalis, , Willie Gardner has performed with the Duke Elling - Nel son, , , and Stevie ton Orchestra, Bobby McFerrin, Harry Con - Wonder. Currently, Goines is the director of jazz nick, Jr., the Saturday Night Live Band, Chaka studies and a professor of music at Northwestern Khan, A Tribe Called Quest, and many others. University. He received a bachelor ’s degree in He was chosen as the #1 Rising Star Trombonist music from Loyola University in New Orleans in the 2014 DownBeat Critics Poll. in 1984, and a master’s degree in music from

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Virginia Commonwealth University in Rich - Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington mond in 1990. High School Jazz Band Competition & Festival in 1996. In 1998, right aer graduating from Charles Goold (drums) , a native New Yorker, is high school, Henriquez joined the Wynton one of the city’s hardest working jazz drummers Marsalis Septet and the Jazz at Lincoln Center of his generation. Son of legendary saxophon - Orchestra, with which he has toured the world ist Ned Goold, Charles was able to hear, live, and been featured on more than 25 albums. and embody jazz from the day he was born. He Henriquez has performed with artists including has also performed with a variety of musicians Chucho Valdés, Paco de Lucía, Tito Puente, the since starting to play professionally at the age Marsalis Family, Willie Nelson, Bob Dylan, of 14 with his father in the famous west Village , Lenny Kravitz, and Marc jazz clubs Smalls and Fat Cat. Finding success Anthony. He has been a member of the music aer years of hard work through teaching and faculty at School of performing, Goold auditioned and received a Music since 2008, and was music director of full scholarship to and subsequently gradu - the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s cultural ated from the Juilliard School. With precious exchange with the Cuban Institute of Music with knowledge and experience handed down from Chucho Valdés in 2010. Henriquez’s debut his elders and the attainment of formal educa - album as a bandleader, e Bronx Pyramid , was tion, he has been able to perform with some of released in 2015 on Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Blue the best in the jazz industry. Goold has worked Engine Records. with a wide variety of artists, from classic stal - warts like Jon Hendricks, the Cab Calloway Or - Sherman Irby (alto and soprano saxophones, chestra, and Andy Bey, to more contemporary flute, clarinet ) was born and raised in Tusca - acts like Wynton Marsalis, Johnny O’Neal, Steve loosa, Alabama. He discovered his musical Nelson, and in a concert with Tony Bennett, calling at age 12 and in high school played and Ne-Yo, Savion Glover, and Brandon Flowers of recorded with gospel great James Cleveland. e Killers at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival. Irby graduated from Clark Atlanta University He al so has collaborated with rap legends Talib with a BA in music education. In 1991 he joined Kweli and Ghostface Killah along with per - Johnny O’Neal’s Atlanta-based quintet. In 1994 forming on the Off-Broadway musical Old Hats . he moved to New York City, recording his first Most recently, Goold performed at the Lincoln two albums, Full Circle (1996) and Big Mama’s Center Winter Gala with Patti LaBelle, Brian Biscuits (1998), on Blue Note. Irby toured the McKnight, and Jennifer Holliday. He has also US and the Caribbean with the Boys Choir of had the opportunity to teach a wide variety of Harlem in 1995, and was a member of the Jazz prospective students in New York City’s five at Lincoln Center Orchestra from 1995 to 1997. boroughs and abroad through various Euro - During that time he also recorded and toured pean master clinics with the Juilliard School with Marcus Roberts and was part of Betty and Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Jazz for Young Carter’s Jazz Ahead Program and Roy Har - People program. grove’s ensemble. Aer a four-year stint with Hargrove, Irby focused on his own group in Carlos Henriquez (bass ) was born in 1979 in addition to being a member of ’ the Bronx, New York. He studied music at a ensemble in 2004 and then Papo Vazquez’ young age, played guitar through junior high Vazquez’s Pirates Troubadours aer Jones’ pass - school, and took up the bass while enrolled ing. From 2003–11 Irby was the regional direc - in the Juilliard School’s Music Advancement tor for JazzMasters Workshop, mentoring young Program. He entered LaGuardia High School children, and he has also served as artist-in- of Music & Arts and Performing Arts and was residence for Jazz Camp West and as an in - involved with the LaGuardia Concert Jazz structor for Band Camp. Ensemble, which went on to win in Irby is a former board member for the Cuba-

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NOLA Collective. He formed Black Warrior , Ahmad Jamal, Randy Records and released Black Warrior , Faith , Brecker, and Carl Fontana. A member of the Jazz Organ Starter , Live at the Otto Club , and Andy at Lincoln Center Orchestra since 2006, he Farber’s is Could Be the Start of Something Big . also continues to co-lead the Mason Brothers Since rejoining the ensemble, Irby has arranged Quintet with his brother Brad. e Mason much of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra’s Brothers recently released their second album, music, and he has been commissioned to com - entitled Efflorescence . pose new works, including Twilight Sounds , and Inferno, his Dante-inspired ballet. Ted Nash (alto and soprano saxophones, flute, clarinet ) enjoys an extraordinary career as a per - Ryan Kisor (trumpet ) was born on April 12, former, conductor, composer, arranger, and ed - 1973 in Sioux City, Iowa, and began playing ucator. Born in into a musical trumpet at age four. In 1990 he won first prize family (his father, Dick Nash, and uncle, the late at the elonious Monk Institute’s first annual Ted Nash, were both well-known jazz and studio Trumpet Competition. Kisor musicians), Nash blossomed early, a “young enrolled in the School of Music in lion” before the term became marketing ver - 1991, where he studied with trumpeter Lew nacular. Nash has that uncanny ability to mix Soloff. He has performed and/or recorded with freedom with accessibility, blues with intellect, the Mingus Big Band, the Orchestra, and risk-taking with clarity. His group Odeon , and Charlie has oen been cited as a creative focus of jazz. Haden’s Liberation Music Orchestra, the Carne - Many of Nash’s recordings have received critical gie Hall Jazz Band, the Philip Morris Jazz All- acclaim, and have appeared on the “best-of” lists Stars, and others. In addition to being an active in the New York Times , e New Yorker , e sideman, Kisor has recorded several albums as a Village Voice , and the Boston Globe . His record - leader, including Battle Cry (1997), e Usual ings, e Mancini Project and Sidewalk Meeting , Suspects (1998), and Point of Arrival (2000). He have been placed on several “best-of-decade” has been a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center lists. Nash’s album Portrait in Seven Shades was Orchestra since 1994. recorded by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and was released in 2010. e album is the first Elliot Mason (trombone ) was born in England composition released by the JLCO featuring in 1977 and began trumpet lessons with his fa - original music by a band member other than ther at age four. At age seven, he switched his bandleader Wynton Marsalis. Nash’s latest al - focus to trombone. At 11 years old, he was per - bum, Chakra , was released in 2013. His most re - forming professionally, concentrating on jazz cent big band recording, Presidential Suite: Eight and improvisation. At 16, Mason received a full Variations on Freedom , won the 2017 Grammy tuition scholarship to attend Berklee College of for Best Large Jazz Ensemble Album. e album Music in Boston, and aer graduating he moved includes “Spoken at Midnight,” which won the to New York City. Mason is a member of the 2017 Grammy for Best Instrumental Compo - Juilliard School jazz faculty as a jazz trombone sition. Nash’s arrangement of “We ree Kings,” professor, and he is also a part of the jazz faculty featured on the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra at New York University. He has served as a with Wynton Marsalis’ Big Band Holidays al - clinician worldwide, performing workshops, bum, was nominated for the 2017 Grammy for master classes, and clinics. Mason is endorsed Best Instrumental or A Cappella Arrangement. by B.A.C. musical instruments and currently plays his own co-designed custom line of trom - Paul Nedzela (baritone and soprano saxophones, bones. He has performed with the Count Basie bass clarinet ) has become one of today’s top Orchestra, the Mingus Big Band, the Maria baritone saxophone players. He has played with Schneider Orchestra, the Maynard Ferguson many renowned artists and ensembles, includ - Big Bop Nouveau, Chick Corea, Kenny Garrett, ing Wess Anderson, , the Bird-

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land Big Band, B ill Charlap, Chick Corea, other broadcasts. Nimmer has released four of Paquito D’Rivera, Michael Feinstein, Benny his own albums on the Venus label (Japan). Golson, Wycliffe Gordon, Roy Haynes, Christian McBride, , Dianne Reeves, Herlin Marcus Printup (trumpet ) was born and raised Riley, Maria Schneider, Frank Sinatra Jr., the in Conyers, Georgia. His first musical experi - Temptations, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, ences were hearing the fiery gospel music his Reginald Veal, and Max Weinberg. Nedzela has parents sang in church. While attending the performed in Twyla arp’s Broadway show, University of North Florida on a music scholar - Come Fly Away , and in major festivals around ship, he won the International Trumpet Guild the world. He has studied with some of the Jazz Trumpet competition. In 1991 Printup’s life foremost baritone saxophonists in the world, changed when he met his mentor, the great including Joe Temperley, , and pianist Marcus Roberts, who introduced him to Roger Rosenberg. Nedzela graduated with hon - Wynton Marsalis. is led to Printup’s induction ors from McGill University in Montreal with a into the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in BA in mathematics in 2006. A recipient of the 1993. Printup has recorded with , Samuel L. Jackson Scholarship Award, he con - Dianne Reeves, Eric Reed, Madeline Peyroux, tinued his musical studies at the Juilliard School Ted Nash, , Wycliffe Gordon, and graduated with a master’s degree in music and Roberts, among others. He has recorded in 2008. several records as a leader: Song for the Beautiful Woman, Unveiled, Hub Songs, Nocturnal Traces, Dan Nimmer (piano ) was born in 1982 in e New Boogaloo, Peace in the Abstract, Bird of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. With prodigious tech - Paradise, London Lullaby, Ballads All Night, A nique and an innate sense of swing, his playing Time for Love , and his most recent, Homage oen recalls that of his own heroes, specifically (2012) and Desire (2013), featuring Riza Printup , Wynton Kelly, Erroll Garner, on the harp. Printup made a big screen appear - and . As a young man, Nimmer’s fam - ance in the 1999 movie Playing by Heart and ily inherited a piano and he started playing by recorded on the film’s soundtrack. Education is ear. He studied classical piano and eventually important to Printup, as he is a popular clinician became interested in jazz. At the same time, he teaching middle schools, high schools, and began playing gigs around Milwaukee. Upon colleges across the United States. Printup teaches graduation from high school, Nimmer le privately at the prestigious Mannes New School Mil waukee to study music at Northern of Music. August 22nd has been declared “Mar - University. It didn’t take him long to become one cus Printup Day” in his hometown of Conyers, of Chicago’s busiest piano players. Working reg - Georgia. ularly on the Chicago scene, Nimmer decided to leave school and make the move to New York Kenny Rampton (trumpet ) joined the Jazz at City. A year later, he became a member of Lincoln Center Orchestra in 2010. In addition the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the to performing in the JLCO, Rampton leads his Wynton Marsalis Quintet. Nimmer has worked own groups. He released his debut solo CD, with Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Dianne Reeves, Moon Over Babylon, in 2013. He is also the George Benson, , , Tom trumpet voice for the popular PBS TV series Jones, Benny Golson, , Peter Wash - Sesame Street . Rampton performed with the ington, Ed igpen, Wess “Warmdaddy” An - Scottish National Jazz Orches tra at the Edin - der son, Fareed Haque, and many others. He has burgh International Festi val during the summer appeared on e Tonight Show with Jay Leno, of 2010, and was the featured soloist on the e Late Show with David Letterman, e View, /Gil Evans classic version of Porgy e Kennedy Center Honors, Live from Abbey and Bess. Rampton has been a regular member Road , and PBS’ Live from Lincoln Center , among of the Mingus Big Band/Orchestra/Dynasty,

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Mingus Epitaph (under the direction of Gunther Villafranca, Eddie Palmieri, Andrew Cyrille, Schuller), George Gruntz’ Concert Jazz Band, , James Moody, Rufus Reid, Oliver Chico O’Farrill’s Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra, Lake, Bjork, Common, and Willie Jones III. He Bebo Valdez’ Latin Jazz All-Stars, and the Man - has also performed and/or recorded along with hattan Jazz Orchestra. He spent much of the notable saxophonists such as Joe Lovano, Mark 1990s touring the world with the Ray Charles Turner, Chris Potter, Dewey Redman, Joshua Orchestra, the Jimmy McGriff Quartet, leg - Redman, Ravi Coltran e, and Sherman Irby. He endary jazz drummer Panama Francis (and has been featured exclusively as a clarinetist the Savoy Sultans), as well as jazz greats Jon on recordings/performances by Andrew Hill, Hendricks, , and Illinois Jacquet. Tom Harrell, Regina Carter, Ohad Talmor/Steve As a sideman, Rampton has also performed Swallow, Stefan Harris, and Chris Potter. Tardy’s with Dr. John, Christian McBride, the Maria performance schedule has taken him all over the Schneider Orchestra, , Geoff world, including to all of the major jazz festivals Keezer, and a host of others. Some of Rampton’s and on many of the biggest stages in jazz. As a Broadway credits include Anything Goes , Finian’s sideman, he has been featured on several Down - Rainbow , e Wiz , Gentlemen Prefer Blondes , Beat Albums of the Year and several Grammy Young Frankenstein , and e Color Purple . Award–nominated recordings, including a Grammy Award–winning album with Brian Greg Tardy (tenor and soprano saxophones, clar - Lynch in 2006. Tardy also has recorded 14 al - inet ) is one of the most versatile jazz musicians bums under his own name, featuring his unique of his generation, equally comfortable in a vari - compositions that blend his love of traditional ety of musical and improvisational situations. In jazz with a modern, seeking style. Tardy has a 1993 he started performing internationally with new project for the Newvelle label, set to be the legendary drummer Elvin Jones. Aer released in 2019. He has also recorded for the moving to New York City in 1994, he became famed Impulse! label, as well as the Steeplechase, a sought-aer sideman, performing and/or J Curve, Palmetto, and Dubat labels. Tardy is recording with prominent jazz artists including a New Orleans native who presently resides Andrew Hill, Wynton Marsalis, Jay McShann, in Knoxville, Tennessee. He is an associate pro - Nicholas Payton, Steve Coleman, Betty Carter, fessor of jazz saxophone at the University of Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Rashied Ali, Ellis Tennes see-Knoxville and is a sought-aer Marsalis, Tom Harrell, Dave Douglas, Brian private instructor and clinician nationally and Lynch, John Patitucci, Ferenc Nemeth, Elio internationally.

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