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New Faculty: Al Kooper and Mick Goodrick Faculty NEWFACULTY: AL KOOPERAND MICK GOODRICK FACULTYGRANT AWARDS Thisfall, tworespected figures from spring, Five TownsCollege in New ]in 1990, Berkleebecame the first different quarters of the musicworld York awardedhim an honorary doc- musicinstitution to implementa full- became Berklee faculty members. torate. time faculty developmentprogram. Rockkeyboardist, producer, and song- Of his moveto Boston to begin In 1996, the first grants wereaward- writer A1Kooper has begunteaching teachingat the college, he says, "I ed. Elevenproposals weresubmitted, songwritingand musicbusiness cours- wantto get all the stuff I learnedout to and. eight projects receivedfunding. es, and jazz guitarist MickGoodrick other people. WhenI needed this In 1997, the numberof applicants has rejoined the Guitar Department. knowledge,there wasno place to get rose to 22, and 10 werefunded. it. It is importantfor peopleto know Thegrants fall into three general aboutthe business." categories: instrumental study; Jazz guitarist MickGoodrick '67 research/writing/composition; and was a Berldee faculty memberuntil performing or recording projects. 1971 whenhe was26 years old. Now, This yea~, sevenfaculty membersare 26years later, he is back.His first road studying with instrumental masters gig was with Gary Burton's group. like Charlie Banacos,Jerry Byrd, and During his four-year stint with Phyllis Curtin. Othershave used funds Burton, he wasfeatured on several to attend programs like the Cuban critically acclaimedalbums. Popular MusicWorkshop at Havana's Goodrick has recorded only a NationalSchool for the Arts in which handfulof albumsas a leader, but has Associate~ Professor of Percussion a vast discography-over40 albums-- John Ramsayparticipated. as a sideman.Most recently, Goodrick Therehas been a lot of interest in was featured on bassist Steve the research, writing, and composition Swallow'sCD Deconstructed. category. Professor Joe Hunt AIKooper Goodrick penned the popular researched jazz drummers.Professor method book The Advancing George Eastman studied how elec- Guitarist and is currently workingon tronic mediashape our perceptionsof Kooperis an icon in rock history. a newseries of bookswhich will thor- experience.Assistant ProfessorJerry His first successcame as a songwriter oughlyexplore the harmonicpossibil- Gatesis in Californiastudying twelve- as a teenagerin 1965with the number ities of the guitar. "Overthe past 10 to tone applications to moderncomposi- one hit tune "This DiamondRing." 15 years, manyguitarists havefocused tion and arranging.Assistant Professor Kooper'skeyboard prowess was wide- on single-line playing working to Sheila Katz is doingresearch on con- ly notedafter he providedorgan hooks attain the linear abilities of a horn flict and identity in the MiddleEast for BobDylan's hit "Like a Rolling player," Goodricksays. "That'sgreat, andwill presenta paperat an interna- Stone"and other cuts on the Highway but being a player whodoesn't know tional conference in Jerusalem. 61 Revisited and Blonde on Blonde the guitar's harmonicpossibilities too Professors Hal Crook, DonnyNolan, albums.That launcheda collaboration is like havinga hole in youruniverse. and Kevin McCluskeyhave finished with Dylan whichhas continued over Thinkingabout all of this has mademe bookprojects with grant funds. the past three decades. Kooperlater wantto do moreteaching." Grantsalso cover the expensesfor foundedbands like the BluesProject in performancesdirectly related to a 1965 and Blood Sweat and Tears in faculty member'sprofessional devel- 1967. Bythe end of the 1960s,Kooper opment. Examples are Professor had earned two gold records and had Bruce Gertz's duo performancewith backedsuch artists as the Rolling Jerry Bergonzi at last year's Stones, Jimi Hendrix,B.B. King, the InternationalSociety of Bassists con- Who,and Peter, Paul, and Mary. ference and Assistant Professor During the 1970s, Kooperracked Robin Ginenthal's performance of up productioncredits with the Tubes, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire. As Nils Lofgren, and Rick Nelson. He well, Assistant Professors Rick signed LynrdSkynrd to his ownlabel Applin and Marti Epstein have done andproduced their first three platinum research to produce and record an albums. In the 1980s, Koopermoved anthology of eighteenth-century into television scoringfor the series keyboard music. "CrimeStory." Mostrecently, he pro- Eric Kristensen,Berldee's director duced a tribute to the late Harry of faculty developmentand instruc- Nilsson, titled Forthe Loveof Harry, tion, said, "Thehigh quality of the andreleased a live retrospectiveof his proposalsspeaks well of the faculty's career titled Soul of a Man.This past MickGoodrick academicand musicalpursuits." Fall 1997 gerldeet o d a y 9.
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