RS Big Band with TLC
September 1, 2020Over the summer, the Russell Scarbrough Big Band collaborated with Grammy-winning drummer Terri Lyne Carrington in a video project presented at the Berklee School of Music. We recorded the three […]
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BlueSpin
August 26, 2016I had a great experience this past spring at French Road Elementary with band director Debbie Parker and jazz guitarist Bob Sneider. Good composers can write at all levels, I […]
“Music You Should Know” – Part 2
April 23, 2015Read Part I here. Delving into another group of composers/compositions, IMO, high-school-age composition students should familiarize themselves with, here are what I call Late 20th-century Modernists. I expect a certain […]
“Music You Should Know” – Part 1
April 14, 2015I have several young private composition students I teach regularly, and then during the summer I work closely with a handful of students at the Csehy Summer School of Music. […]
Premiere of “Skies Over Fairport”
May 6, 2013Here is last Friday’s premiere of Skies Over Fairport, written for the combined forces of the Fairport High School Jazz Band and the SOUL-JAZZ Big Band. We concluded the program […]
Blue Bossa Big Band Chart
December 10, 2012My good friend Dr. Sean Reed has posted a couple of short videos from his band’s recent performance of Blue Bossa at Arkansas Tech University. I wrote this arrangement several […]