AMEA 2017 Clinicians All-State Jazz Gold Band Clinician
Antonio J. García is an instrumental and vocal performer, composer/arranger, producer, clinician, educator, and author. The Director of Jazz Studies at VCU, he has performed as trombonist, bass trombonist, or pianist with 70 major artists including Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, Mel Tormé, Billy Eckstine, Doc Severinsen, Louie Bellson, Dave Brubeck, and Phil Collins; has performed and taught across Canada, Europe, Australia, and South Africa; is author of Cutting the Changes: Jazz Improvisation via Key Centers (Kjos Music); is Associate Jazz Editor for the International Trombone Association Journal; and is a widely published composer. He is a Bach/Selmer clinician/soloist, Past Editor of the IAJE Jazz Education Journal, Past President of IAJE-IL, Board Secretary of The Midwest Clinic, Co- Editor/Contributing Author of Teaching Jazz: A Course of Study, Contributing Author of The Jazzer’s Cookbook, and serves as a Network Expert (Improvisation Materials) for the Jazz Education Network. Visit his web site at
www.garciamusic.com.
All-State Jazz Silver Band Clinician
Jim Warrick recently took early retirement after thirty-eight years of teaching jazz, concert and marching bands at the high school and college levels. He was most noted as being the Director of Jazz Ensembles at New Trier High School (Winnetka, IL- a public school in the northern suburbs of Chicago) for twenty-seven years directing the school’s four 24-four piece curricular jazz ensembles that rehearsed every school day, and eight combos that rehearsed each week. Jim’s jazz ensembles have performed six times at the Midwest International Band Clinic and he has guest conducted seventeen all-state jazz ensembles. His New Trier students have received thirty- nine Downbeat Student Musician Awards, including the “Best High School Jazz Ensemble” award four times. Jim is the only public high school educator selected for Downbeat magazine’s “Jazz Education Hall of Fame.” For the past thirteen years, Jim has selected the Downbeat magazine Student Musician Awards recipients for high school and junior high jazz groups. He now lives in the mountains of Tennessee in the Cherokee National Forest.
All-State Jazz Bronze Band Clinician
Theo Vernon attended The University of Alabama 1980-1985, receiving a BM degree in saxophone performance and a BS degree in music education. He received his Masters of Music Education degree in 1991 from VanderCook College of Music in Chicago, Illinois. In 2003, he received National Board Certification in Music and renewed his certification for National Board November 2012. Mr. Vernon was appointed Associate Director of Bands at Grissom High School in August 1985. Presently, he works with the marching band, conducts the Symphonic Band II and directs the two Jazz Bands. Under his direction the Symphonic Band II has rarely received less than an overall superior rating in any adjudication. Both jazz bands consistently receive superior and excellent ratings. The “A” Jazz Band was selected as a finalist in the 1999 “Essentially Ellington” Jazz Band Competition. They were also selected as a finalist in the “Swing Central Jazz” Competition in Savannah, Georgia in 2013 and 2015.
All-State Jazz Middle School Band Clinician
Joseph Smith was born in the French Quarter of New Orleans, LA. and was influenced by the second line bands and the active music scene of Congo Square and nearby Bourbon Street. His dad, Joe Foxx, Jr., a drummer, was a favorite in the early days of the New Orleans uptown Dew Drop Inn and played long stints on Bourbon Street. Throughout middle and high school, Mr. Smith studied trumpet privately at Loyola University with George Jansen, first trumpeter with the New Orleans Symphony. He continued to develop his New Orleans trumpet sound by studying privately with New Orleans legendary trumpeters. Mr. Smith is currently employed by the Birmingham City Schools as the band director at John Herbert Phillips Academy. He was named the 2016-17 BCS Teacher Of The Year and a top 16 finalists for Alabama Secondary Teacher Of The Year. Mr. Smith still performs professionally and is a sought after studio musician and clinician.
A Note from ABA Jazz Chair, Mark Foster...
Students are invited to submit audition recordings in order to be considered for the allstate jazz band. The all-state jazz band festival is held in conjunction with the Alabama Music Educators Association In-Service Conference at the Renaissance Hotel and Conference Center in Montgomery, Alabama on January 19-21, 2017. Selection for the Alabama all -state jazz bands is determined by a recorded audition that students will prepare and send to the Alabama Bandmasters Association (ABA) Jazz Division. A qualified panel of adjudicators will be judging student recordings. Band directors will then be notified of the selected students approximately three weeks after the deadline (Approximately December 1, 2016). Directors must be members of NAfME in order for their students to audition and participate in the all-state jazz bands.
The all-state jazz band audition music is now posted on the AMEA website at:
http://www.myamea.org/aba/all-state-jazz-band/ ala breve 43
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