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Meet the Essentially Ellington Clinicians, Tape Screeners, and Consultants RONALD CARTER, one of the most versatile and sought-after clinicians in jazz education, is Professor of Music at Northern Illinois University (NIU) and serves as Director of its jazz studies program. In addition to serving ten years as jazz chairman for the Illinois Music Educators’ Association, Mr. Carter has served as a guest conductor, artist, clinician, and adjudicator for numerous universities, colleges, and high schools. Among his honors and awards are NIU Board of Trustees Professorship 2009, Downbeat magazine’s Jazz Educators’ Hall of Fame, The Woody Herman Music Award, the 1991 Milken Foundation National Distinguished Educator Award, Southern Illinois University’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and the St. Louis American Newspaper’s Excellence in Teaching Award. Mr. Carter is an artist/clinician for Conn/Selmer, Inc. He has been involved with Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program since 1997, leading in-school workshops, judging Competition entry recordings, serving as an educational consultant and as the Director of the Band Director Academy. LOREN SCHOENBERG is Executive Director of The Jazz Museum in Harlem, a faculty member of The Juilliard Institute for Jazz Studies, and Program Director of Jazz Aspen Snowmass. Mr. Schoenberg has conducted the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra (LCJO) as well as The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra and The American Jazz Orchestra. Mr. Schoenberg has played with Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Buck Clayton, the LCJO and was musical director for Bobby Short. He has also received Grammy awards for best album notes in 1994 and 2004. Mr. Schoenberg oversaw the Benny Goodman Archives at Yale University, where he produced a ten-CD release of previously unissued Goodman recordings. He frequently leads JALC educational programs, and annually serves as one of the screening judges for Essentially Ellington. Mr. Schoenberg has been published widely, and his book, The NPR Guide to Jazz (Berkley Publishing Group), was released in 2003. TERELL STAFFORD has established himself as one of the most dynamic young trumpeters on the jazz scene today. Mr. Stafford has performed as an integral part of various jazz groups led by Cedar Walton, Herbie Mann, Kenny Barron, Matt Wilson, as well as with many of the New York-based big bands: Jon Faddis' Carnegie Hall Jazz Band, Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra, The Mingus Big Band, and the Village Vanguard Jazz Orchestra. His albums as leader have been met with tremendous critical and popular acclaim including Centripedal Force (Candid), Fields of Gold (Nagel Heyer). His latest CD, New Beginnings, was released in June 2003 on the Max Jazz label. In addition to his work as a performer, Mr. Stafford maintains a high profile in jazz education. He is currently full-time Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at Temple University in Philadelphia, and on the faculty of the prestigious Vail Foundation in Colorado. He also appears as featured artist, soloist and lecturer at high schools and universities throughout the country. He has participated as a clinician and mentor for Essentially Ellington, and served on the Band Director Academy faculty for five years. REGINALD THOMAS (piano) can be seen fronting his own groups (Mardra/Reggie Thomas Ensemble; OGD) on both piano and Hammond organ and as a sideman with great artists including Hamiett Blueit, Ann Hampton Callaway, and the Carl Allen/Rodney Whitaker Ensemble. Most recently he was the accompanist for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocal Competition at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Reggie continues to appear as a guest artist at collegiate jazz festivals around the country including Lawrence University, the University of South Florida, and Texas Tech University. He has also performed internationally in Calgary, Alberta, Canada; Milan, Italy; Warsaw and Poznan, Poland; Senegal, West Africa; and London, England. Recordings include work with Clay Jenkins, Kim Richmond, Clark Terry/Mike Vax, as well as his own recordings Fade to Blue with wife Mardra (MaxJazz), Standard Time (Victoria) and 4 (Jazz Compass). Reggie has been awarded the Excellence in the Arts award from the Greater St. Louis Arts and Education Council and was named in the Riverfront Times 2005 "Best of St. Louis" issue as Best Jazz Artist. After almost 20 years as professor of music at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, Professor Thomas will be joining the faculty of Michigan State University in the fall of 2011. Reggie is also a consultant/clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center, working with the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Program and Band Director Academy, and has served on several summer jazz faculties across the country and abroad, including the International Association for Jazz Education Teacher Training Institute; the Birch Creek Music Center; the Eastman School of Music Summer Jazz Camp; Summer Jazz Academy in Chodziez, Poland and, most recently, the Barbican Center in London. He remains an active clinician/adjudicator at colleges throughout the country and at International Association for Jazz Education Conventions (now JEN). Thomas has directed All State Jazz Bands, Combos and Jazz Choirs in Illinois, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, South Dakota and Tennessee and directed the first ever Missouri All-College Jazz Band. RODNEY WHITAKER, Professor and Director of Jazz Studies at Michigan State University, is one of the leading performers and teachers of jazz double bass in the United States. He was a member of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for many years, and also received national recognition performing with the Terence Blanchard Quintet. Whitaker has also toured internationally as a featured performer with the Roy Hargrove Quintet. Featured on more than 150 recordings - from film to compact discs - Whitaker's film score, China, directed by Jeff Wray, was released on PBS in Fall 2002. A proven and committed jazz educator, Whitaker has presented numerous master classes internationally and nationally at locations such as Osaka College of Music, Kunitachi College of Music, Music For All, Duke University, International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE) conferences, Howard University, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, the New School (NY), and Lincoln Center. In addition, he is the Artistic Director of the Michigan State University Professors of Jazz, the Detroit Civic Jazz Ensembles and a Mack Avenue recording artist. Whitaker has served on the faculties of University of Michigan and Juilliard Institute of Jazz. Other Essentially Ellington clinicians include:
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