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William S. Carson Director of Bands Coe College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
http://www.coe.edu/~wcarson/
Business Manager, Municipal Band, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
William S. Carson is a 1978 honors graduate of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota where he completed an internship with the Minnesota Opera and conducted the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra as a student in the ensemble's Young Conductors' Workshop. Carson continued his studies at Southern Illinois University-Carbondale where he earned a master of Music degree in 1981. After graduation, Carson directed the high school music program in Carbondale, Illinois, where his students won the coveted Illinois High School Music Association Music Sweepstakes Award in 1982.
Carson then served the public schools of West Lafayette, Indiana, as high school band director and music coordinator before moving to New Hampshire to become director of jazz studies at Plymouth State College of the University System of New Hampshire.
After four years in New Hampshire, Carson moved to Arizona to pursue his Doctor of Musical Arts degree at Arizona State University Carson spent two years as a graduate assistant for the ASU Bands and an intern with the orchestra before he was appointed Director of Bands at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
At Coe Carson conducts the concert band and the jazz band; teaches conducting, 20th century music history, clarinet, and jazz history; and supervises the rest of the instrumental music faculty. In addition to his work at Coe College, Carson serves as Business Manager of the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band.
Carson is an active member of the Music Educators National Conference, the Iowa Bandmasters Association, the International Association of Jazz Educators, and the Phi Kappa Phi National Honor Fraternity.
Carson completed his doctorate in 1992, and two years later was awarded the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Council for Research in Music Education. The dissertation was also selected as a runner-up for the Fritz Thelen Prize sponsored by the Internationale Gesellschaft zur Erforschung und Forderung des Blasmusik. Most recently Carson was honored by selection for inclusion in Marquis Who's Who in American Education.
Dr. Carson has extensive experience as a guest conductor, including a recent performance with the United States Army Field Band. Carson also represented the North Central division of the College Band Directors National Association at the CBDNA regional convention in Kansas City in February, 1998, conducting an honor band of
students from the small colleges of the middle third of the country. Carson has recently been named an Educational Clinician for United Musical Instruments. Over the years, Carson's travels as a conductor, clinician, and performer have taken him to thirty states and eleven foreign countries.

Dr. Donald Chamberlain, Assistant Professor of Music, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
http://cornell-iowa.edu/music/faculty.shtml
Education: D.M.A., M.M., University of Texas, B.M. Berklee College Courses Taught: Music Theory IV, V, Jazz Combo, Jazz Ensemble, Composition Lessons, Jazz Improv, Jazz History, Jazz Arranging, Orchestration, Counterpoint

Steve Charlson, adjunct Professor of Bass at Drake University, Des Moines, IA and Wartburg College, Waverly, IA
http://www.drake.edu/artsci/Music_Dept/music_home.html
http://www.drake.edu/artsci/Music_Dept/Jazz_Faculty.html
http://www.wartburg.edu/musdept/
http://www.wartburg.edu/musdept/faculty.html
Steve Charlson is a well known bassist in Iowa and throughout the country. He has a Bachelor's Degree from the University of Northern Iowa, and is the principal bassist of the Dubuque Symphony. He has performed with the Des Moines Symphony and the Des Moines Big Band as well as stints with the Glenn Miller Orchestra, cruise ships and recordings with the Daugherty/McPartland Band. He is adjunct Professor of Bass at Drake University and Wartburg College.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/Charlson.htm

Paul Cunliffe, accompanist for the University of Iowa Dance department
http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/
http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/faculty.html
http://www.uiowa.edu/~dance/pcunliffe.html
Paul Cunliffe resides in Iowa City, Iowa. In addition to his being a member of the percussion section of Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz, he performs with the folk group 'Big Wooden Radio'; the R&B funk group, 'Dennis McMurin and the Demolition Band'; 'The Bob Washut Trio' and the 'Cunliffe/Thompson Duo'. He also works as an accompanist for the University of Iowa Dance department.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/cunliffe.htm

Jim Dreier, teaches drumset at Augustana College, Rock Island IL
http://www.augustana.edu/academ/music/index.htm
http://www.augustana.edu/academ/music/faculty.htm
James Dreier is a drumset educator, clinician, and performer. He receieved his Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music and has completed his course work for a Masters degree in Music Theory from the University of Iowa. He has studied with such master drummers as Horacio "El Negro" Hernandez, Enrique Pla, Bobby Sanabria, Giovani
Hildalgo, Pascoal Meirelles, and Alan Dawson.
For four years, James performed and traveled with Brazilian pianist Rafael Dos Santos, including a residency at the Conservatorio Pernambucano de Musica in Refice, Brazil. James ia also a founding member of the Latin/jazz group "Orquesta Alto Maiz" which has released three CD's, and was a featured group at the 1997 International Association of Jazz Educators Conference in Chicago. He recently recorded a CD for the 9Winds label with his jazz group "Odd Bar Trio + Trombone."
James teaches drumset at Augustana College and is the drumset/ethnic percussion specialist in the University of Iowa percussion program.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/dreier.htm

Ed East, Director of Bands and Chairman of the Music Department at East High School in Waterloo, IA
Ed East was born and raised in Panama City, Panama where he began studying classical guitar at the National Conservatory. As a high school student he began playing percussion and trumpet landing his first professional gig while still in high school. Later he received a scholarship from the Institute of International Education to study music at the University of Northern Iowa where he earned his Bachelor of Music Education degree. He graduated with honors and was inducted into Pi Kappa Lambda National Music Honor Society. While at UNI he studied trumpet with Dr. Keith Johnson and was a member of the Orchestra, Marching Band, Jazz Ensemble, Percussion Ensemble, and Faculty Jazz Quintet. He has been teaching instrumental music in grades 5 through 12 since 1984. He presents clinics on Latin American music and performance, and multicultural music education. He adjudicates jazz festivals, concert band festivals, and has been a guest conductor for the Northern Festival of Bands. He performs Central and South American Folk music in a duo with Colombian-born artist Karin "La Negra" Stein and jazz with the Aguiar, East & Schwabe trilogy. He is currently director
of Bands and chairman of the music department at East High School in Waterloo, IA. More recently Ed has begun performing as a jazz vocalist with "Ed'e Duz Jazz".
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/east.htm

Gabriel Espinosa, Director of Jazz Studies, Central College, Pella, AI
http://www.central.edu/majors/music.htm
Gabirel Espinosa is Director of Jazz Studies at his undergraduate alma mater, Central College in Pella, where he has developed a distinctive approach to the study and performance of jazz by augmenting the traditional jazz program with decidedly Latin and vocal influences. Espinosa earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music from Central in 1979 and continued his study at Berklee College of Music in Boston, earning a diploma in arranging in 1983. He then returned to his home on Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula where he established himself as a sought-after composer, arranger, music educator and professional entertainer in Cancún. He returned to the U.S. in the early 1990’s and earned a Master’s Degree in Music from The University of North Texas. He is now at home in Pella directing Central’s jazz program, teaching private lessons, performing professionally throughout the Midwest with his Latin jazz group “Ashanti,” and composing and arranging commercial music.

Timothy Feldkamp, Coordinator of instrumental music activities at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
http://www.kirkwoodcollege.com/artshumanities/jazz_program/timbio.htm
http://www.kirkwoodcollege.com/artshumanities/jazz_program/guest.htm
Timothy Feldkamp received his Bachelor of Music Education degree from Fort Hays State University and his Masters of Music Education degree from Wichita State University. He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Saxophone and Woodwind Pedagogy from the University of Oklahoma. Dr. Feldkamp is currently the coordinator of instrumental music activities at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA. Under his direction, the music program has grown to two jazz ensembles, four jazz combos, chamber ensembles, and a concert band. The jazz ensembles have received superior ratings at prestigious jazz festivals throughout the United States and perform regularly in the state of Iowa.

The C.R. Jazz band issued a new CD in year 2001, "C.R. Jazz - Dorian Blue" under the direction of Dr. Timothy Feldkamp. The songs: Moment's Notice, When You're Smiling, Uno Mas, Caught a Touch of Your Love, Dorian Blue, Miss Fine, I Just Foud Out About Love, Ellis Island. Truly terrific CD. C.R. Jazz has accompanied numerous national and international artists in concerts, including Herb Ellis, Ernie Watts, Jimmy Heath, Larry Coryell, Russel Maone, Houston Person, and others. This local band is a national treasure, right in our own back yard. Don't miss them. Buy the CD!

From the web site below is the following text: "Below is a selection of audio clips from our CD "Dorian Blue". We have provided these clips at the highest quality possible for feasible Internet delivery. Please feel free to download and listen to these selections. We hope you enjoy them." So peruse, and enjoy.
http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/artshumanities/jazz_program/ensemble.htm

Lesley Fleer, Associate Director of Bands at Kennedy High School.
Mrs. Fleer received her B.A. in Music Education from the Indiana university. She also teaches technique lessons at middle schools in the Cedar Rapids Community School District. She taught 5 years at Hamilton

Steve Grismore, Augustana College (Rock Island, IL)
http://www.augustana.edu/academ/music/index.htm
http://www.augustana.edu/academ/music/faculty.htm
Steve has been playing the guitar for over thirty years and has degrees from the Guitar Institute of Technology (Los Angeles) and his undergraduate and masters degrees from the University of Iowa.
Steve also has a long history jazz education in the state of Iowa. He has taught at several small colleges including Coe, Cornell, Central, Iowa Wesleyan and more. He was Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Iowa from 1990-93, and is currently on staff at Augustana College (Rock Island, ILL.)
He has performed with numerous ensembles throughout the Midwest over the years including Johnson County Landmark(in his college days), the Rhythm Rockers, the Often Ensemble, Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz, the Damon Short Band,the Sizemore band, Odd Bar Trio + Trombone and many more.
Steve has one tape with Happy House and has recorded two tapes and three CD's with Alto Maiz and also records for Accurate Records (Boston),with the Grismore/Scea Group. Their most recent disc, Of What, has received high praise in many of the national jazz periodicals and was voted one the 10 best of 97 by the Boston Phoenix Magazine. He has also recently recorded a new side with The Odd Barr Trio + Trombone released on Ninewinds record label(Los Angeles).
He is co-founder and Music Director of the Iowa City Jazz Festival. The Jazz Fest is in its eighth year and has received national acclaim and has been recorded three separate times by National Public Radio for rebroadcast on Branford Marsalis's show "Jazz Set".
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/grismore.htm

Jim Jurgensen, Director of Bands at Kennedy High School.
Mr. Jurgensen recieved his BM from The University of Iowa, and had Graduate work at Drake University & The University of Iowa. Mr. Jurgensen has taught at Central City High School, for grades 5, and 9-12. He also taught and Charles City Senior High, as Director of Bands for grades 9-12. Mr. Jugernsen attended the Coincert Bands performing at Iowa Bandmasters Association Conference in 1992 and 1997. Mr.Jurgensen was a 5 State Regional Winner and received the UMI-ASBDA Distinguished Young Band Director Award in 1997. Mr. Jurgensen has been a Guest Conductor in the University of Iowa and University of Northern Iowa.

David J. Law, Vernon Middle School, Marion, Iowa
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Educational Philosophy: When the students leave the program they should be: 1) better people, 2) better musicians, and 3) have had fun while performing. "Know your stuff, know who you're stuffin', Stuff 'Em!"
Degrees and Licenses:
National Registered Music Educator - Music Educators National Conference 1990 (one of only 12 in the State of Iowa)
Permanent Professional Certificate
Masters Degree in Music Education with emphasis in Conducting, Truman State University 1986
Bachelor's Degree in Music Education, William Penn College 1976
Teaching Experience:
2000 - Present Vernon Middle School in Marion, Iowa
1988 - 2000 Kennedy High School in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
1980 - 1988 Marion High School
1978 - 1980 Belle Plaine High School and lessons in Middle School
1976 - 1978 East Greene High School and 5th Grade Band in Grand Junction, Iowa
Honors and Awards:
Governor's Award for Leadership in Iowa
Teacher of the Year at Kennedy High School
Selected as Honor Band at the Iowa Bandmasters Conference
Selected as Honor Band at the Iowa Music Educators Conference
Founded the Marion Community Band and were selected to perform at the Austrian National Band Music Festival in Venna, Austria and at the World's Fair in Seville, Spain.
Adjudicator and guest conductor throughout Iowa
Published in 14 State Music Education Journals
Presenter at the National Music Educator's Conference in Washington, D.C.
Webmaster for the Northeast Iowa Bandmasters Association http://www.bandmasters.org/users/neiba/neiba.html

Dan Knight, Applied Music Associate Professor of Jazz Piano at Grinnell College, Grinnell, IA; Adjunct Professor at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
http://www.danknight.com/
http://www.grinnell.edu/music/ama.htm
http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/artshumanities/jazz_program/index.htm
Dan Knight is on the faculty staff for both Grinnell College and Kirkwood Community College, where he teaches jazz piano. Dan Knight is an internationally known jazz pianist and Steinway sponsored artist. Dan has performed an unprecedented three consecutive years as a solo pianist at the legendary Montreaux Jazz Festival. A protege of Dr. Billy Taylor, Dan is currently the Applied Music Associate Professor of Jazz Piano at Grinnell College, and an Adjunct Professor at Kirkwood Community College. Dan Knight's compositions now include over fifty songs, two entire suites for solo piano, and a newly-completed Mass. Dan has studied with both Dr. Billy Taylor and Max Roach, and has performed with Mercedes Ellington, Wynton Marsalis and other jazz giants.

Dennis McPartland <click for photo
Percussion instructor at Kirkwood Community College in Cedar Rapidsand Indian Hills Community College, Ottumwa
http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/artshumanities/jazz_program/index.htm
http://www.ihcc.cc.ia.us/Academ/Music.htm
Dennis McPartland is a percussion specialist in drumset performance and a Sabian cymbal artist. He has been involved in music since 1976 when he played his first professional job. He made an appearance at the 1977 Notre Dame Jazz Festival and then headed to Los Angeles, where he lived and performed until 1980. His performance credits include Steve Allen, Richie Cole, Duffy Jackson, Warren Hill and Mike Metheny. Since returning to Iowa in 1980, he has been performing with the Daugherty-McPartland Jazz Group. The group toured Mexico in 1988 and was chosen as cultural ambassadors for the state of Iowa to Russia in 1991. They performed at the International Association of Jazz Educators jazz conference in New Orleans in 2000. The group has released ten recordings. Dennis released his own solo project, Off the Beaten Path, in Spring 2000. In addition to performing, Dennis provides in-depth drumset study and jazz history instruction for both students and band directors. He is the percussion instructor at Kirkwood Community College and Indian Hills College. He has also taught at the University of Iowa and Cornell College. Dennis received a BA in sociology with minor in music and MA in music from the University of Iowa.
The Daugherty-McPartland Group specializes in the history and performance of jazz music. Rostered Iowa Arts Council artists since 1986, Tim Daugherty (keyboards) and Dennis McPartland (percussion) have conducted over 100 residencies performing original and classic jazz music in both concert and workshop formats. Working in hands-on clinic and performance settings, jazz music is explored as a musical disclipline to be mastered. The Daughtery-McPartland Group has appeared on Iowa Public Television's Live From Studio III, traveled to Russia as cultural ambassadors, and given clinics and performances in South Dakota, Minnesota, the Iowa Band Masters Convention, and at the International Association of Jazz Educators conference in New Orleans. The group has made numerous recordings and is listed in the Iowa Art's Council's Performing Artists Touring Roster and the Arts in Education Artists Roster.
From the web site of KCCK jazz radio: KCCK PROJECT TAKES JAZZ MUSIC PROGRAMS TO AREA SCHOOLS
KCCK-FM is taking their jazz music format on the road to area schools through an educational outreach project. Several "Schoolhouse Jazz" programs will present the history of jazz and its importance in American culture. The station has enlisted the help of well-known local musicians Tim Daugherty and Dennis McPartland to share stories and musical demonstrations with elementary schools in Cedar Rapids. The program incorporates discussion, demonstration and performance in one-hour presentations to assembled students.
The Schoolhouse Jazz project is supported by a grant from the Greater Cedar Rapids Foundation.

Rich Medd, Band Director, Iowa City's West High School
Rich Medd has been the trombonist with Alto Maiz since 1991, which makes this the longest steady job he has ever held. Rich is a band director at Iowa City's West High School and directs marching band, jazz band, and concert band. But on the weekends he sheds his buttoned-down Mr. Holland's image and becomes a greasy, loud, un-kept and rude musician. Rich has seen his family three times since 1995, even though he still lives with them. Rich also performs with the I-380 Express and various shows that come through the area.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/medd.htm

Al Naylor, Director of Jazz Studies for the Linn-Mar School district
Al Naylor has been a band director in the Linn-Mar school district since 1981. He is currently the Director of Jazz Studies and teaches instrumental lessons in the middle school. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Music Education from the University of Northern Iowa. Mr. Naylor is currently president of the Iowa Chapter of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Mr. Naylor is the director of the I-380 Express, a professional big band which is featured on the Variety Club Telethon each spring on the Cedar Rapids television station, KCRG-TV. He is a member of the popular group, Orquesta Alto Maiz (the Salsa Band) which has released four CD's, Dancing in the Corn, Azucar Caliente, and Decada. Their fourth CD, Live from Montreux, was released in 1999. Their fifth CD 9 is due out this summer. He is also a member of the blues/retro-swing band, the Moe Band.
Mr. Naylor has performed professionally in a wide variety of settings including the Cedar Rapids Symphony Orchestra, the Barnum and Bailey Circus, and for such touring Broadway shows as Chorus Line and South Pacific. For five years, Naylor was on the road performing with horn rock bands, one of which, The Pages, was recently inducted into the Iowa Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has played with many dance and swing bands including the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Nelson Riddle Orchestra. He was principal trumpet for the Cedar Rapids Municipal Band for 10 years. Mr. Naylor has studied with Keith Johnson, Randy Grabowski, Arnold Jacobs and Tom Lisenbee. He has also performed with many great jazz artists including Clark Terry, Sonny Stitt, Dick Oatts, Paul McKee, Bill Frisell, Ray Anderson, Conrad Herwig, and Steve Turre. As a composer and arranger, Naylor's works have been performed by the Cedar Rapids Symphony, the I-380 Express, and his own junior high and high school groups. He has been the composer for three of the pieces for the sight-reading portion of the IHSMA Class A, 1A, and 2A Jazz Band Contest. His improvisation book, Jazz Band Warm-up Exercises for Teaching Improvisation, is used by many schools throughout Iowa. His book, Basic Jazz Improvisation Theory, has been found useful by many directors and students.
Alan is married to Rochelle, a violist, operations manager, and librarian for the Cedar Rapids Symphony. Theyhave a son, David, who is eleven years old.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/naylor.htm

John Rapson, Associate professor of music and director of jazz studies at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
http://www.uiowa.edu/~music/JAZZraps.html
has been an associate professor of music and director of jazz studies at the University of Iowa since August 1993. A recording artist for Music and Arts, Sound Aspects and Nine Winds, he is a composer/trombonist whose work mixes ethnic and experimental elements with more conventional jazz forms. Jazz historian Mark Gridley has characterized his music as "extending several trends that were first demonstrated by Charles Mingus and George Russell."
From 1980-1990, he was a professor of theory/composition at Westmont College in Santa Barbara, California. During his tenure at Westmont, he founded a jazz program and continued to work professionally with musicians he had met in Los Angeles. His concerts and recordings include both mainstream and experimental sessions with John Carter, Bobby
Bradford, Vinny Golia, Kim Richmond, Clay Jenkins and Alex Cline.
In the Fall of 1990, Rapson moved to the east coast to pursue a doctorate in ethnomusicology at Wesleyan University and performed with musicians from Boston and New York. His doctoral thesis deals with the cultural analysis of jazz transmission and performance practice of student musicians in public education. His collaborations while in the east include performances or recordings with Anthony Braxton, Julius Hemphill, David Murray, Bill Frisell, Tim Berne, Doc Cheatham, Ed Blackwell, Jay Hoggard and Allen Lowe.
Rapson's most recent compact disc Dances and Orations (from Music and Arts) is a collection of thirteen new compositions for sextet derived from improvisatory performances with Anthony Braxton. He has also recorded two albums, A Mingus Among Us and Been There, Done That, with Johnson County Landmark, the jazz repertory ensemble from the University of Iowa. He is currently the director of the oftENsemble, a twelve-member professional band dedicated to the performance of original works and a charter member of Tiny Prairie Landscape, an eclectic quintet that features New York drummer Matt Wilson. Previous albums from Rapson are Bing (Sound Aspects), Bu wah and Deeba dah bwee (Nine Winds). For a self-profile of John, see
http://members.aol.com/ninewinds/bios/rapson.html

Ray Salucka, Director of Choral Activities at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA
http://www.kirkwood.cc.ia.us/artshumanities/bios.html#music
Ray is the director of Choral Activities at Kirkwood Community College, Cedar Rapids, IA. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education and Piano Performance from the University of Dubuque. He received a master’s degree in Choral Conducting from the Conservatory of Music at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and is working toward his doctoral degree in choral conducting at the University of Iowa. He previously served as Associate Choral Director at Iowa State University. Ray has served as musical director for more than 20 productions with high schools and community theatres throughout Iowa, and toured as musical director with a professional company. His jazz choirs have recorded two C.D.'s and have won numerous awards. In 1999, his group Jazz Transit was invited to perform for the International Jazz Educators Association, and in January of 2000, his other jazz group R.S.V.P. performed for the International Association of Jazz Educators Millenium Conference held in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Brent Sandy, Adjunct Lecturer, Music Department, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA; Assistant Director of Jazz Ensemble and Combo, Cornell College, Mt. Vernon, IA
http://cornell-iowa.edu/academic_affairs/faculty/bsandy.html
Brent Sandy is an Educational Clinician for the Conn division of United Musical Instruments, USA, as well as a frequent performer. He is a graduate of Indianola High School and the University of Northern Iowa. He has performed at the Ozone, Montreux, and North Sea jazz festivals in Europe along with many festivals in the USA. Brent has also played at four International Association of Jazz Educators conventions. He regularly performs with The ODDBAR Trio, a band that plays “creative chamber music,” Orquesta de Jazz y Salsa Alto Maiz, a latin dance band, and the University of Iowa Faculty Jazztet. Sandy also presents improvisation clinics, adjudicates numerous jazz festivals, and is a working trumpet player for pit orchestras and recording sessions.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/sandy.htm

Bob Washut, Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa
http://www.uni.edu/music/web/
http://www.uni.edu/music/frames/faculty/jazz.html
Dr. Robert Washut is Professor of Music at the University of Northern Iowa where he has been Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Iowa since 1980. An accomplished jazz composer and arranger, Washut has received several commissions from collegiate jazz ensembles, with numerous compositions and arrangements published by the UNC Jazz Press, Walrus Music and Encore Publications. His book of Lee Konitz’ transcribed solos is disributed by Jamey Aebersold’s Jazz Aids.
An active jazz pianist, who leads the 11-piece Latin jazz band Orquesta Alto Maiz, Washut has performed and recorded with the Iowa City Jazz Orchestra and the Des Moines Big Band. In addition, he performs frequently with the UNI Faculty Jazz Quartet as well as his own jazz trio.
Director of the award-winning UNI Jazz Band One, Washut has published numerous articles in the field of jazz education. His UNI Jazz Band has recorded six compact discs and toured Europe on three occasions. He is in constant demand as a clinician and adjudicator throughout the country and has conducted all- state jazz ensembles in Maryland, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, and South Dakota. In 1996, Washut was selected as Outstanding Teacher at the University of Northern Iowa.
http://www.salsaband.com/bios/washut.htm

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