https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhOiEsfn_gY Over 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 […]
I 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 […]
Read 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 […]
I 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. […]
Here 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 […]
My 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 […]