Office: MU 279 Phone: (940) 369-7639 E-mail: Lynn.Seaton@unt.edu Website: www.lynnseaton.com

Lynn Seaton is a Regents Professor in the Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. Prof. Seaton teaches Jazz Bass Lessons, Jazz Performance Fundamentals I for Bass, Jazz Performance Fundamentals II for Bass, and coaches small groups. He serves as director of the Jazz Double Bass Workshop at UNT. https://jazz.unt.edu/doublebassworkshop
He was honored to be named a Fulbright Scholar to teach and perform in Latvia.

Prof. Seaton is an active working professional musician in the Dallas/Fort Worth metroplex. He has recorded and toured with many jazz greats including Kenny Drew, Jr., John Fedchock, Tim Hagans, Cal Collins, Bobby Shew, George Shearing, Frank Wess and the big bands of Woody Herman and Count Basie.

Prof. Seaton was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, July 18, 1957. He began studying classical guitar at age seven, switching to string bass at age nine. While studying music at the University of Oklahoma, he began working the clubs around the state.

In September of 1980, Lynn relocated to Cincinnati, Ohio to join the Steve Schmidt Trio and the Blue Wisp Big Band. He was awarded a Jazz Studies Fellowship in the summer of 1981 from the National Endowment for the Arts to study with Rufus Reid.

Lynn has been a faculty member at the College Conservatory of Music in Cincinnati, Long Island University, State University of New York at New Paltz, William Patterson College, and has taught at the University of North Texas since 1998. He thoroughly enjoys teaching workshops, coaching ensembles, and doing artist-in residence programs, having done many throughout America and Europe including numerous schools, kindergarten through college, Jamey Aebersold's and UNT jazz camps, and Clark Terry's Institute of Jazz Studies. He currently has private students as well.

During September of 1984, Lynn joined Woody Herman and the Young Thundering Herd. July of 1985 brought him a position with the Count Basie Orchestra. During this time he moved to New York City (1986) where he resided until 1998. After his two-year engagement with the Basie Band, he did an extended tour with Tony Bennett and a six-month tour with George Shearing. Much of 1991 was spent touring with Monty Alexander. 1992 through 1994 was spent freelancing in the New York area. 1995 until the fall of 2000 was with the Jeff Hamilton Trio. He has performed at festivals world wide including the Bern, Concord, JVC, Kool, Kyoto, Chicago, Nice, Elkhart, Kansas City, Montreal, Edmonton, Newport, North Sea, Perugia, West Coast, San Sebastian, Ottercrest, Topeka, Sarasota, Paradise Valley and Poori. At present, Lynn is freelancing and touring as a performer and clinician with a variety of people.

Lynn has worked alongside many outstanding musicians, including: Toshiko Akiyoshi, Ernestine Anderson, Buck Clayton, Al Cohn, Kenny Drew Jr., Blossom Dearie, Bob Dorough, Harry "Sweets" Edison, Herb Ellis, John Fedchock, Frank Foster, Freddy Green, Tim Hagans, Jeff Hamilton, Scott Hamilton, Wynard Harper, Thad Jones, Mel Lewis, Marian McPartland, Jay McShann, Mark Murphy, Ken Peplowski, Bucky Pizzarelli, Jimmy Raney, Emily Remler, Diane Schuur, Maria Schneider, Bud Shank, Carol Sloane, Marvin "Smitty" Smith, Maxine Sullivan, Mel Torme, Frank Wess, Joe Willliams, Nancy Wilson, Steve Wilson, Mark Vinci and Teddy Wilson. In addition, he has worked in the jingle studios, pit bands for shows, with the Cincinnati and Dallas Pops Orchestras, has performed on television broadcasts including CBS Sunday Morning, Japanese, Dutch, Swiss and German National TV, and radio broadcasts including NPR and several European stations.

Lynn has participated in over 125 recorded releases, including: the Grammy Award-winning "Diane Schuur and The Count Basie Orchestra" and the Grammy-nominated "Woody Herman 50th Anniversary," and the Grammy-nominated "No Nonsense" with the John Fedchock New York Big Band.

He is currently living in Highland Village, Texas, working and recording with many great jazz artists, and leading his own trio. His own critically acclaimed recordings "Bassman's Basement" is available on Timeless Records, "Zoom Blewz" on Armored Records, "Live!!!" on ISB Records, and "Solo Bass Flights" on Omnitone Records. Kendor Press has published his book "Jazz Solos for Bass".

Quotes About Lynn Seaton

Lynn Seaton has "a spirit of bold experimentation while still embracing the Old School."
Bill Milkowski, Jazz Critic

Lynn Seaton... "Lord of the Strings!!"
Bass World Magazine

"Seaton lays down an imposing walking groove...and demonstrates sublime lyricism"
Bass Player Magazine

"Seaton is a bass player with a technique beyond imagining--his hand slides up and down the neck of the bass with the speed of the darting tongue of a cobra, his fingers dance on the strings ala Fred Astaire, and the notes come bursting forth."
Sid Weinberg, Blue Notes Jazz Letter

Milt Hinton's Five Favorite Bassists... "Ray Brown, Ron Carter, Rufus Reid, Lynn Seaton, and Christian McBride."
New York Times

"Lynn is an excellent player, inspiring clinician, outstanding teacher and one of the finest musicians presently preserving the music through education"
Jamey Aebersold

"An imaginative and deft soloist, he draws a remarkable wealth of sonorities from his instrument. Seaton is particularly fond of playing with the bow, which he masters with great virtuosity. Regardless of the tempo, his music radiates exquisite swing."
Aleardo Buzzi, Claves Jazz

"One of the best clinicians I've seen is Lynn Seaton"
Jiggs Wigham

"Lynn Seaton is an outstanding musician who has provided our students with meaningful instruction during our jazz residency."
Rob Ratner, Director of Performing and Fine Arts, Mineola, NY Schools

"His sound is like that of the fine orchestral bassist, for he has developed his Arco technique to the level of his formidable pizzicato...Lynn Seaton has effectively established his own voice in current jazz music."
Matthew Hughes, International Society of Bassists Magazine

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/lynn-seaton

jazz@unt.edu
Retired, effective Jan. 1, 2020.

About

John Murphy, an ethnomusicologist and saxophonist, joined the UNT Jazz Studies faculty in 2001. He served as chair of the Division of Jazz Studies from Fall 2008 through Fall of 2019. He is the author of Music in Brazil (Oxford University Press, 2006) and Cavalo-marinho pernambucano (Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil University Press, 2008) and has published articles on jazz improvisation, Brazilian traditional and popular music, Cuban music in New York, and college teaching. He published the article "Beyond the Improvisation Class: Learning to Improvise in a University Jazz Studies Program," in Musical Improvisation: Art, Education, and Society (2009), edited by Bruno Nettl and Gabriel Solis and presented a paper on ethnomusicologists and noise-induced hearing loss at an annual meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology. He has held Fulbright (1990-91) and National Endowment for the Humanities (2000-2001) fellowships for research in Brazil.

While a student at the University of North Texas, Murphy earned two degrees (B.M., jazz studies performance, 1984; M.M., music theory, 1986), played in the One O'Clock Lab Band (1984-85), and free-lanced in Dallas-Ft. Worth. He then earned two degrees at Columbia University (M.A. & Ph.D., ethnomusicology) and played Latin music in the New York area. He plays frequently in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area: jazz on tenor saxophone and Irish traditional music on button accordion.

Murphy taught jazz history (undergraduate and graduate), jazz styles & analysis (graduate), and jazz research methods (graduate); and collaborated with the ethnomusicology area by serving on thesis committees. He taught a listening class at the UNT Small Group Jazz summer workshop. He served as chair of the Division of Music History, Theory, and Ethnomusicology from 2006 to 2008; served as Interim Director of Graduate Studies, College of Music, June 2012-May 2013 (while continuing chair service and full-time teaching); served the Society for Ethnomusicology as web editor from 1997 to 2002; and taught previously at Western Illinois University (1992-2001). In 2019 he co-founded, with Dr. Linda Holloway, UNT's Neurodiversity Initiative.

Profile in UNT Faculty Information System.
Website for Music in Brazil: https://sites.google.com/view/music-in-brazil.

Office: Room 330 | Phone: (940) 565-4633 | brad.leali@unt.edu

“His solos are sparkling and Cannonball Adderley influenced" (Evening Standard, London). “Saxophonist Brad Leali was among the most soulful and exciting I’ve heard recently” (New York Times). With a unique style and sound, which echoes the influences of his past, Brad Leali is one of the most notable saxophonists of current times. A native of Denver, Colorado, Brad was raised in the Baptist Church. In addition to gospel music, he spent countless hours listening to the music his parents played (Coltrane, Cannonball, Bird, James Brown, Marvin Gaye, and Nancy Wilson). It’s no wonder that at a very young age, he was able to combine gospel, jazz, and R&B into his playing.

As a child, Brad recalls spending time looking through old yearbook photos of his father in the high school jazz band, looking sharp and clean. He was so enamored by these images that he found himself opening the case, time and time again, to see the beautiful horn from the photos. He finally told his father that he just had to play. That very day, his father had the horn repaired and signed Brad up for the Denver Junior Police Concert Band. That began his long love affair with the saxophone. While studying the saxophone, Brad spent his youthful years listening to live jazz at many Denver music venues. One in particular was named El Chapultapec, owned by Jerry Krantz. Krantz loved jazz and would allow young musicians, such as Brad, to listen, learn, and sit in. It was here that Brad first heard many of his early mentors and local legends (Billy Tolles, Billy Wallace, Homer Brown, Nat Yarborough, etc.). He also got to hear and study with other jazz greats, such as trumpeter Clark Terry and saxophonist Eddie “Cleanhead” Vincent.

Leali received a bachelor of arts degree in music education from the University of North Texas in 1989, where he played with the world-renowned One O’Clock Lab Band. Upon graduating, the Harry Connick, Jr. Orchestra immediately recruited him. In his tenure with the orchestra (1989-1994), Brad was the lead alto saxophonist and the musical director. During this time, they toured the world and the orchestra recorded two highly acclaimed CDs (Blue Light, Red Light [1991], When My Heart Finds Christmas [1993]).

By invitation of Frank Foster, Brad then joined the Count Basie Orchestra in 1995 (later under Grover Mitchell, 2003). During his years with the group, the Basie band was a two-time Grammy award-winning orchestra. It was one of the greatest musical learning experiences he’d ever had. Working with older musicians only deepened his appreciation of the importance of this music. Spending time one-on-one with the likes of Joe Williams was unforgettable in these formative years.

During his time as one of the top jazz musicians in New York City, Leali was a staple in legendary jazz venues like the Village Vanguard, Blue Note, Jazz Standard, Iridium, and Birdland. He also has performed in Lincoln Center in the orchestras of jazz legends Nancy Wilson and Benny Golson.

Brad’s desire to pay it forward and help keep jazz alive led him to earn a master’s degree from Rutgers University in 2005. He was quickly appointed as Director of Jazz Studies at Texas Tech University. While there, several scholarships were established in his name, including the “Brad Leali Endowed Jazz Scholarship.” In 2008, Brad joined the esteemed University of North Texas (UNT) faculty as Professor of Jazz Saxophone, where he directs small group ensembles and teaches jazz performance fundamentals and jazz saxophone. As the recipient of the UNT Creative Impact Award in 2014, Brad was recognized as a distinguished faculty member for his outstanding contributions as an educator who perpetuates the value of creative development and performance.

Brad Leali has also had a prolific recording career. His first solo recording was Priority Soul! in 1998 on the New Jazz Renaisssance Recordings label. In 1999, the Count Basie Orchestra won a Grammy award for Count Plays Duke with Leali receiving his own nomination for his solo work on the classic Billy Strayhorn composition, "The Star-Crossed Lovers." His discography also includes Live in Europe (Brad Leali Quartet, 2004); Brooklyn Soul Organization (also produced by Leali, 2004); the critically acclaimed Maria Juanez (2006), which features his own compositions and an eighteen-member jazz orchestra; and DA’s Time (Brad Leali-Claus Raible Quartet, 2008) on the TCB label. Leali’s numerous television appearances include local news programs, “NBC’s TODAY,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno,” “The Arsenio Hall Show,” BET, and the “Harry Connick, Jr. Christmas Special.” He performed annually for many years as part of the Kennedy Center Honors program. Leali also performed at President Obama’s inaugural celebration “We Are One.”

While Brad continues teaching at UNT, he frequently performs, tours, and records. He also enjoys working as a guest artist, clinician, and adjudicator at other educational institutions. Brad has had a long-time endorsement with Keilwerth Saxophones and D’Addario Reeds. He currently tours with Lyle Lovett & His Large Band (2013-present).

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/brad-leali

Office: MU277 | Contact by e-mail only: Frederick.Hamilton@unt.edu

Fred Hamilton is a Professor in the Jazz Studies Division of the College of Music at the University of North Texas. He teaches applied Jazz Guitar lessons, Rhythm Section Master Class, Jazz Improvisation, and is the director of the Guitar Ensemble Labs, which include five guitarists, bass and drums.

Fred Hamilton is a guitarist and bassist, and a Professor of Music in the Jazz Studies Division of the University of North Texas. He teaches guitar, jazz improvisation, rhythm section masterclass and directs the guitar ensembles. He is also on the faculty of the Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops and the UNT Combo Camp. Since coming to Texas, he has performed with such artists as Bill Frisell, Dave Liebman, Cedar Walton, George Garzone, Mike Stern, Kenny Wheeler, The Brecker Brothers, Paul Wertico, James Moody, Joe Lovano, Bob Brookmeyer and John Abercrombie.

His most recent CD is "Afternoon of the Soul," released in October, 2009 on his own Wolf Tales label. He recorded "A Conversation" on the Blue Bamboo Music label with Woody Witt and Ed Soph. Prior to that, "Live at Cezanne" as a bassist with saxophonist Woody Witt and trumpeter Tim Hagans on the Apria label (apriarecords.com) released in fall 2007. In 2005, the DVD The Jam featuring the Earl Harvin Trio was released by Hamilton on the Mel Bay label (melbay.com) and is also available as a book/DVD titled Intuitive Improvisation. He is featured on guitar on the Alfred Publications DVD Rhythm Section Workshop for Jazz Directors, released in 2005.

In 1989, shortly before joining the UNT faculty, while living in Denver, he was featured on two interesting albums. The first for the Rabbit Ears subsidiary of Windham Hill, with pianist Art Lande, Paul McCandless who was one of the founding members of the band Oregon and narration by actress Holly Hunter. Titled The Three Pigs and the Billy Goat's Gruff, it was part of a children's series featuring original music and celebrity readings. The second was The Odd Couple with tenor saxophonist Spike Robinson and pianist Rob Mullins for the Capri label.

He has written articles for Guitar Player magazine and has big band, combo and guitar ensemble music published with the University of Northern Colorado Jazz Press. He has two published works with Mel Bay Publications, Inc. Melodic Studies and Compositions for Guitar: A Reading Workout for Serious Musicians was released in November, 1993, and his solo "Thanks, Byrl Elvin" from the album Looking Back on Tomorrow is included in Mel Bay's Anthology of Jazz Guitar Solos Volume Three. A series of compositions written for the UNT L-5 Electric Guitar Ensemble is available from Mel Bay. These have been recorded and released on The Quilt Master, a CD for the UNT jazz label, available on the (recordings page).

Denton, Texas and UNT have been home since 1989, and prior to that, he held positions on the faculty at Concordia College in Montreal (1984-85), St. Francis Xavier University in Nova Scotia (1982-84), and Bowling Green State University in Ohio (1979-82). His M.M. in composition is from the University of Northern Colorado where he was a graduate teaching fellow from 1978 to 1979. Prior to that he played guitar and arranged for the Commanders Jazz Ensemble in the U.S. Air Force with the NORAD Command Band (1972-76).

During his formative years in Denver, Colorado, he studied for six years with Jim Atkins, original rhythm guitarist with the Les Paul Trio. The other influential guitarist in the Denver area during his youth was the legendary Johnny Smith.

He has recorded several jazz albums on guitar and bass (see below). Check out Fred's personal web site. His book, Melodic Studies and Compositions for Guitar: A Reading Workout for Serious Musicians, is available through Mel Bay Publications at www.melbay.com. Fred is advisor for The North Texas Guitar and Bass Association. Fred Hamilton endorses Schaefer Guitars and D'Addario Strings. Check out the short teaching videos available to view at the D'Addario website. Click on media library at the home page and type in Fred Hamilton.

Other recordings by Fred Hamilton

• The Marc Seales Band Live: A Time, a Place, a Journey on the Origin label
• Unincorporated, The Earl Harvin Trio on the Two Ohm Hop label
• Strange Beauty, The Earl Harvin Trio on the Leaning House label
• Live at the Gypsy Tea Room, The Earl Harvin Trio on the Leaning House label
• Between Us Cats, with Dave Zoller on the DPZ label
• The Earl Harvin Trio/Quartet on the Leaning House label
• Second Wind on Pic Records
• Looking Back on Tomorrow available on the Heart label, featuring David Friesen and Ed Soph
• Strange Beauty by Tony Campise on the Heart label
• The Three Pigs /Billy Goat's Gruff on the Windham Hill/Rabbit Ears label, music by Art Lande, narration by Holly Hunter
• The Odd Couple on the Capri label, with Spike Robinson and Rob Mullins

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/fred-hamilton

Office: MU348 | Phone: (940) 369-5942 | E-mail: Rosana.Eckert@unt.edu

Rosana Eckert is Principal Lecturer in the Jazz Studies Division. Her teaching responsibilities include Vocal Jazz Techniques, Songwriting, Vocal Jazz Pedagogy, and Vocal Jazz Applied.

Rosana Eckert is an internationally recognized live and studio vocalist, songwriter, arranger, and jazz educator. As a vocal artist, she has recorded four solo CDs and performs regularly throughout the U.S. and abroad. She has had the pleasure of performing and/or recording with such jazz greats as Lyle Mays, Kenny Wheeler, George Duke, Jon Faddis, Marvin Stamm, and Bobby McFerrin, and she toured Europe and Scandinavia as a sub in the Grammy Award-winning vocal quartet New York Voices. Her debut CD, At the End of the Day, was praised as “an occasion for celebration” by AllAboutJazz.com and “a superior debut” by Cadence Magazine. The CD was a finalist for Best New Jazz Album in the 2006 Independent Music Awards. Her newest CD, Small Hotel, once again showcases her original songs and unique arranging style, and it features guest appearances by trumpeter Marvin Stamm and bassist Christian McBride.

A renowned educator, Rosana serves as Senior Lecturer of vocal jazz at the University of North Texas. Rosana received two degrees from UNT, studying music theory, French Horn, and later, vocal jazz. In the Fall of 1999, she became the first female to join the esteemed jazz faculty. Since then, she has been the primary private jazz voice teacher at UNT as well as faculty and co-host of the UNT Vocal Jazz Summer Workshop. She also serves on the faculty of the New York Voices Summer Vocal Jazz Camp in Bowling Green, Ohio. Rosana is in demand as a clinician, festival adjudicator, and choral arranger, and she has been the guest conductor for many All-State jazz choirs, including California, Colorado, Oklahoma, North Dakota, Nebraska, Arizona, and Iowa. Her vocal ensemble arrangements are published by Sound Music Publications, Hal Leonard, and Rosana Eckert Music and have been performed worldwide. Most recently, she co-wrote a jazz musical for young voices with popular children’s author and educator Sharon Burch titled Freddie the Frog and the Jungle Jazz (published by Hal Leonard).

In addition to her extensive live performing and teaching, Rosana also works regularly as a studio vocalist and voice-over talent in Dallas, having sung or spoken on hundreds of commercials, album projects, publishing demos, and radio IDs around the world.

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/rosana-eckert
Personal website: www.rosanaeckert.com.

Richard DeRosa received a Grammy nomination for Best Instrumental Composition in 2015 for his big band composition “Neil” which is dedicated to Neil Slater: the director of the One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas from 1981-2008.

Since 2001 Mr. DeRosa has arranged and conducted music for Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra to feature Toots Thielemans, Annie Ross, Willie Nelson, Norah Jones, Cassandra Wilson, Roberta Gambarini, and Renée Fleming among several other notable artists. He was a prime arranger for the theater project (A Bed and a Chair) featuring the music of Stephen Sondheim and created an arrangement of Between The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea for the swing jazz Broadway show After Midnight.  Mr. DeRosa was also a featured arranger for the Wynton with Strings concert celebration in 2005.  His most recent project as a featured conductor and arranger for the LCJO was Bernstein at 100 which premiered in November of 2017.

In October, 2018, Mr. DeRosa was the featured conductor and arranger for the concert productions of Joey Alexander with Strings which also premiered at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

In 2012 the WDR Big Band in Cologne, Germany, invited Mr. DeRosa to conduct and present his music in concert. After several other engagements with the prestigious ensemble, he served as their chief conductor and musical arranger from 2014-2016. He arranged and conducted the CD/DVD recording My Personal Songbook (released in 2015) which features the music of legendary jazz bassist Ron Carter who is featured with the band. A second CD titled Rediscovered Ellington (released in 2017) features his longtime music partners Garry Dial and Dick Oatts. Together they created unique and modern arrangements of Duke’s rare and unheard tunes. Mr. DeRosa’s newest CD release (2019) is Beyond Borders which features Gregor Huebner (violin) and Richie Beirach (piano) that includes new arrangements of several Beirach compositions. WDR projects with other guest artists include Joshua Redman, Stefon Harris, Kurt Elling, Patti Austin, the New York Voices, Ola Onabulé, Ute Lemper, Bill Mays & Marvin Stamm, and Warren Vaché.

Other commissioned arrangements have been recorded by the Mel Lewis, Gerry Mulligan, and Glenn Miller big bands, vocalist Susannah McCorkle, trumpeter Dominick Farinacci on his CD Lovers, Tales, and Dances, and acclaimed solo violinist Anne Akiko Meyers on her CD Seasons….Dreams. Mr. DeRosa has also served as co-arranger, orchestrator, and conductor for the critically acclaimed recording projects When Winter Comes featuring guitarist Fred Fried, Dial & Oatts: Brassworks, and a double CD project That Music Always Round Me which Down Beat Magazine selected as one of the top recordings in 2015. Dial & Oatts composed music to fifteen poems by Walt Whitman and brought in DeRosa to create the arrangements for choir to be featured with a jazz chamber group that included Dial on piano, Oatts on saxophones and flute, and guest trumpeter Terell Stafford.

Mr. DeRosa’s arrangements for orchestra have been performed by the Kansas City Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the New York Pops, the Portland Maine Pops, the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band with the Houston Symphony Orchestra, the Metropole Orchestra in Holland, the Czech National Symphony, and the Swedish Television and Radio Orchestra in Stockholm. Other European jazz bands, including the Stockholm Jazz Orchestra, have commissioned his compositions and arrangements.

Mr. DeRosa’s compositions for television, film, and theater include background music cues for Another World, As the World Turns, The Guiding Light, commercials for Telex, Bristol-Meyers, and Kodak, various documentaries broadcast on PBS, orchestrations for independent films Gray Matters, Falling For Grace, and Standard Time, and more than twenty original music scores for the national touring U.S. theater company ArtsPower as well as orchestrations for Frankenstein, the Musical. He has also composed scores for videos and hundreds of audiobooks for publishing companies including Bantam Doubleday Dell, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster, and Prentice-Hall.

Earlier in his career as a performer, DeRosa toured and recorded with Gerry Mulligan, Bob Brookmeyer, Susannah McCorkle, Jackie Cain & Roy Kral, Chuck Wayne, and Marlene VerPlanck. Other employers include Marian McPartland, Gene Bertoncini, Warren Vaché, Larry Elgart, Peter Nero, and vocalist Chris Connor.

Mr. DeRosa is a recipient of UNT’s Presidential Faculty Excellence Award. In celebration of the university’s 125^th anniversary, he composed a work for orchestra and jazz quintet titled Suite for an Anniversary. Mr. DeRosa is a full professor and the director of jazz composition and arranging. His former teaching positions were at William Paterson University, Manhattan School of Music, and The Juilliard School where he taught advanced jazz arranging for studio orchestra.

He is the author of Concepts for Improvisation: A Comprehensive Guide for Performing and Teaching (Hal Leonard Publications) and Acoustic and MIDI Orchestration for the Contemporary Composer (Focal Press) co-authored with Dr. Andrea Pejrolo. The latter book has experienced worldwide success, having been translated into Chinese in a subsequent edition. An expanded 2nd edition was published in November of 2016.

Mr. DeRosa’s publications for public school jazz ensembles are available through Alfred Music (Belwin Jazz), Smart Chart Music, J.W. Pepper, Barnhouse Music, while several of his works for professional-level bands are available through Sierra Music. All of this music is available through e-Jazz Lines. Mr. DeRosa remains active as an adjudicator and clinician for music festivals and is the artistic director for AJV (American Jazz Venues), an organization created by his late father, noted jazz education pioneer, Clem DeRosa.

www.richderosa.com

Music Annex 121 | rodney.booth@unt.edu

Rodney Booth has been an active professional musician for over 30 years. A native of El Paso, Texas, he began his professional career at age sixteen as a trumpet player in his father’s bands. He received his degree in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas and was a student of Don "Jake" Jacoby. Rodney was a member of the renowned One O'Clock Lab Band.

He traveled across North and South America and Europe with Woody Herman's Thundering Herd Big Band. He has performed with many major recording artists such as Lou Rawls, Nancy Wilson, Wayne Newton, Michael Feinstein, Dionne Warwick, Ella Fitzgerald, Marvin Hamlisch, Ray Charles and Natalie Cole to name a few. He has recorded professionally with the popular artist Al Green and country star Janie Fricke.

Rodney is very active in studio and commercial recordings. He can be heard on national commercials for the Fina Corporation, Texaco, McDonald's Corporation, Domino's, Miller Brewing Company and Chevrolet. In addition, he performed on the commercial recordings for the Texas Rangers, the Boston Red Sox, CNN News, the US Postal Service and also the popular television series, "Wishbone". He also recently recorded the music for a national documentary, "The United States and Mexican War." His various bands have been chosen to perform for companies such as Exxon, the Zales Corporation, Gordon’s Jewelers, Merle Norman Company and Cartier's Jewelers. The Rodney Booth Big Band and his seven piece dance band are in demand for weddings, private and corporate events and award shows throughout the area. Rodney is also an adjunct professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches Improvisation, ear training, and jazz trumpet lessons.

Rodney's CD, "Look Over There" features his own jazz quartet; this CD received a very favorable review by music critic Thor Christensen in the Dallas Morning News and can be ordered through Cdbaby, Amazon, or Boothmusic.com. His second CD, "Ten and One", will feature Swing and Big Band Music and will be released September 11, 2009. An exciting duo CD with piano great Bill Lohr will be completed in December 2009.

Rodney Booth Band on Facebook

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/rodney-booth

Office: Music 275 | Phone: (940) 369-7951 | Email: alan.baylock@unt.edu

Associate Professor Alan Baylock directs the One O'Clock Lab Band, teaches Conducting College Jazz Ensembles and composition and arranging lessons, and coordinates the Jazz Lecture Series. He serves as Coordinator of Lab Bands.

http://music.unt.edu/faculty-and-staff/alan-baylock

Office: MU346 | Email: jennifer.barnes@unt.edu

Jennifer Barnes is a highly sought-after vocalist, educator, clinician and arranger and Professor of Music at the University of North Texas.  As Director of Vocal Jazz Studies, Ms. Barnes oversees all vocal activities within the Division of Jazz Studies at UNT, including four vocal jazz ensembles and directing the award-winning UNT Jazz Singers.  She has previously taught at seven other universities, served as a guest conductor for District and All-State Music Festivals in sixteen states, taught jazz vocals at the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Camps from 1998 through 2015, and her vocal arrangements are published by Sheet Music Plus, Anchor Music Publications, UNC Jazz Press, as well as being self-published on her website, JenniferBarnesMusic.com.  She was awarded the 2016 Jazz Education Achievement Award by DownBeat Magazine, as only the second vocal educator to receive that honor.

Jennifer previously resided in Los Angeles, where she was an active vocalist in both studio and live performances. Her voice has been heard and featured on feature films including Wall-E, Ice Age 2, 3 & 4, Enchanted, Star Trek, Ready Player One and the television show Glee as well as the World of Warcraft video games.  She has sung on or appeared in advertising for Chili’s Bar & Grill, Epson, Old El Paso and McDonald’s and released a highly acclaimed solo jazz recording, You Taught My Heart.  Jennifer is the alto vocalist in the professional vocal group Vertical Voices (with Julia Dollison, Greg Jasperse and Kerry Marsh).

Jennifer earned the Master of Music degree from the University of Miami (FL) and the Bachelor of Music degree from Western Michigan University.

Website: www.JenniferBarnesMusic.com