2023 UNT Jazz Education Network (JEN) Program

14th Annual

University of North Texas College of Music

CONFERENCE PROGRAM

JANUARY 4 - 7, 2023 • OMNI RESORT, ORLANDO, FLORIDA

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Sessions & Performances

University of North Texas College of Music

THURSDAY, JANUARY 5

12:00 PM Mike Steinel Quintet featuring Co-Performer Rosana Eckert along with Gary Eckert and Steve Barnes

New Voices Stage | International Ballroom III

2:00 PM Darmon Meader Quartet featuring guest artist Rosana Eckert

New Voices Stage | International Ballroom III

4:00 PM Resetting the Set List: A Practical Guide to Programming Works by Woman Composers and Arrangers

Alan Baylock and Kimberly Hannon Teal - Co-Presenters

Clinic Room #1 | Allendale

FRIDAY, JANUARY 6

11:00 AM Finding the Organic Path to Successful Improvisation

Mike Steinel - Presenter

Clinic Room #1 | Allendale

11:00 AM Mark Filsinger Chamber Big Band featuring Brad Leali

Inspirations Stage | National Ballroom

2:00 PM

Expanding the Melody Clinic

Rosana Eckert - Lead Presenter

Clinic Room #3 | Heritage Park

4:00 PM

University of North Texas Jazz Singers

Jennifer Barnes - Director

New Voices Stage | International Ballroom III

SATURDAY, JANUARY 7

11:00 AM New Music Vocal Ensemble Reading Session featuring Co-Presenters Rosana Eckert, Jennifer Barnes and Steve Barnes

New Voices Stage | International Ballroom III

12:00 PM

New Music Instrumental Big Band Reading Session

Mike Steinel - Coordinator

Inspirations Stage | National Ballroom

WORDS OF WELCOME

by the Dean of the

College of Music

Iam so pleased and honored to bring greetings once again from the University of North Texas College of Music to the 14th annual conference of the Jazz Education Network. Jazz enjoys such a special place in the history and reputation of our university. We have just wrapped up our year-long celebration of 75 years of Jazz Studies at UNT. It has been a glorious year which launched with our presenting sponsorship of this conference in Dallas 12 months ago. What a glorious week we shared celebrating this treasured art form and looking back with so much respect and gratitude to those who blazed a courageous path to situate jazz in higher education! This year is a time to pivot, with our gaze fully focused now on an ambitious future.

To honor our storied past, we must innovate, forge new jazz pathways, new genres, and evermore welcoming approaches to jazz education that reflect our College’s mission “…to serve our diverse musical culture with excellence, integrity, and imagination.” We pledge to do just that.

As you will see in the pages of this program, we are thrilled to present our UNT Jazz Singers under the expert leadership of Professor Jennifer Barnes. In addition, we have so many faculty, staff, students, and alumni presenting and performing at this conference. The JEN Conference is such a great “family reunion” for the entire jazz community and certainly for your extended UNT jazz family! Please accept my warm greetings and heartfelt best wishes for a successful and memorable JEN 2023!

Most sincerely,

JOHN W. RICHMOND, PH.D.

Professor and Dean of the College of Music University of North Texas

THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS JAZZ SINGERS is the premier vocal jazz ensemble within the Division of Jazz Studies in the College of Music. Under the direction of Jennifer Barnes, Jazz Singers consists of ten vocalists and a four-piece rhythm section who perform a challenging and varied repertoire of jazz and jazz-influenced cutting-edge repertoire, notably featuring compositions and arrangements by current students, alumni and UNT faculty. They have performed at state, national and international music conferences including those for the Jazz Education

Network, International Association for Jazz Education, and the American Choral Directors Association, and have earned a DownBeat magazine Student Music Award in eight of the last nine years.

Jazz voice majors at UNT sing in one of the four vocal jazz ensembles as well as study both modern and historical practices of solo jazz singing, songwriting, vocal pedagogy, improvisation, jazz aural and keyboard skills, jazz theory and arranging, and jazz history. In addition, they sing in Jazz Chamber Ensembles, Latin Jazz Lab Band, Zebras

(pop/R&B/soul band), Brazilian Ensemble and with one of the seven Lab Bands.

Over the years, individual UNT vocal jazz students have received DownBeat magazine Student Music Awards for solo singing, arranging, leading small groups, and composition. Alumni of the program have gone on to win or receive nominations for Grammy Awards, Independent Music Awards and CASA awards, and are enjoying successful careers as recording artists, studio singers, college professors, composers, arrangers, music producers and worship leaders.

Who’s Who

SOPRANOS

Bianca Lopez Harlingen, TX

Katelyn Robinson

Los Angeles, CA

Daniela Toralla Ciudad de Guatemala, Guatemala

ALTOS

Julie Coggiola Syracuse, NY

*Hannah Goodwin Coeur d’Alene, ID

Christiana Schiller San Jose, CA

TENORS

Christian Anderson Shawnee, KS

Kelemen Szabo Plano, TX

BARITONES

+Dakota Andersen

Fairfield, IA

Jasper Fearon Ithaca, NY

RHYTHM

*Paul Briggs (acoustic bass)

Jeffery Chaidez (percussion)

Jeffrey Dalton (drum set)

Tomás Jonsson (piano)

Will Peters-Seymour (guitar)

Cincinnati, OH

Houston, TX

Portland, ME

Houston, TX

Lexington, KY

*Section leader +Graduate Assistant

PROGRAM TO BE SELECTED FROM

After You’ve Gone

Turner Layton & Henry Creamer

Arr. Darmon Meader

DMV

Braxton Cook

Lyrics/Arr. Dakota Andersen

Find Your Way

Alison Wedding

Arr. Jennifer Barnes

I Got Rhythm

George & Ira Gershwin

Arr. Jennifer Barnes

I Have Dreamed

Richard Rodgers & Oscar Hammerstein

Arr. John McLean/Kurt Elling

Adapt. Rosana Eckert

Make Someone Happy

Arthur Comden, Adolph Green & Jule Styne

Arr. Randy Porter

Adapt. Zach Yaholkovsky

Sea Shanty

Jazz Singers

Soul-Tied Strangers

Katelyn Robinson

Strollin’

Horace Silver

Arr. Paris Rutherford

The Perfect Blues

Ray Brown

Arr. Jennifer Barnes

JENNIFER BARNES

UNT Professor of Vocal Jazz

Director of Vocal Jazz Studies

Director of Jazz Singers

JENNIFER BARNES is the Director of Vocal Jazz at UNT, in addition to being a highly sought-after vocalist, educator, clinician and arranger throughout the United States and Canada. She has directed award-winning Vocal Jazz Ensembles at eight universities, won a 2016 “Jazz Education Achievement Award” from DownBeat magazine, has served as a guest conductor for District and AllState music festivals in 16 states and her vocal arrangements are published by Sheet Music Plus, Anchor Music, UNC Jazz Press and at her own website (JenniferBarnesMusic.com). In addition to her teaching activities, Jennifer is an active

performing and studio vocalist, including her roles as alto vocalist, composer and arranger for the professional vocal ensemble Vertical Voices, solo and group vocals for television shows, video games and films including “World of Warcraft”, Wall-E, Enchanted, Ice Age 2, 3 & 4 and “Glee”. Ms. Barnes is a member of the American Society of Composers, Arrangers and Publishers, Screen Actors Guild and Jazz Education Network. She earned the master of music degree in studio music and jazz performance from the University of Miami (FL) and the bachelor of music degree in piano performance from Western Michigan University.

His Honoring Legacy IN MEMORY OF PARIS RUTHERFORD 1934 •

2022

With grieving hearts, we share the passing of the founder of vocal jazz at the University of North Texas, Paris Rutherford.

Professor Emeritus in Jazz Studies at UNT, Paris Milton Rutherford III was born in Dallas to Ruth and Paris M. Rutherford II in 1934. Captivated by music from an early age, Paris began piano lessons at his mother’s side when he was 4 years old. He completed both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in music from Southern Methodist University. As a young adult, Paris played the trombone in the 4th Army band, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, top-tier dance bands in the DFW area, and in the emerging Dallas jingle industry. It was during this period that Paris also began to work as a writer, completing many charts for the Army Band, the Hugh Fowler Band and the advertising industry.

Paris’ work in advertising music led to the discovery of one of his great loves. After writing some jazz-inspired vocal charts for a group of friends who were first-call jingle singers, he realized how exciting the combination of lyric with close jazz harmonies could be. This work as an arranger, for both instrumental ensembles and vocal groups, would become his life’s work for the next many decades. After a brief time working as a writer in Europe, he took his first teaching position at the University of Colorado Denver. In 1978 Paris was hired at the University of North Texas to teach instrumental arranging and lead a group of vocalists called The Commercial Singers. Paris wrote arrangements for these singers, and this association became transformative for both Paris and UNT jazz. UNT was already known for the jazz program, headlined by the One O’Clock Lab Band®. With the addition of vocal jazz, the Jazz Singers became the flagship group for jazz vocalists at UNT,

Written by Rosana Eckert

traveling to festivals and conventions and giving concerts across the United States and abroad. With invaluable input from his teaching assistants and colleagues, Paris founded and developed the vocal jazz degree at UNT.

After retiring from UNT in 2009, having spent 30 years teaching and building the programs in instrumental arranging and vocal jazz, Paris stayed active in the industry, writing new vocal jazz arrangements for Hal Leonard Publications and directing The New

acy

Collection, a community jazz choir in Dallas.

Paris was known for his clever turn of phrase and wonderful sense of humor. His unique perspective colored both his teaching and interactions with others, and he is remembered very fondly by many who studied and worked with him over the years. His legacy will live on through all who sing or play his music and through the students who pass through UNT and take all that he established forward in their lives.

Paris is survived by his beloved wife of 37 years, Lynne Rutherford, 6 children, and numerous grandchildren and greatgrandchildren.

Services were held January 14 in Frisco, TX, with a memorial concert at UNT to be held later in the spring. In lieu of flowers, donations can be made to the Jazz Leadership Scholarship in Honor of Paris Rutherford at the University of North Texas.

Thank you, Paris. Rest in peace.

FACULTY

ROB PARTON

Chair, Division of Jazz Studies, Associate Professor of Jazz Trumpet –Lead Trumpet Emphasis, Director of the Two O'Clock Lab Band

JOSÉ M. APONTE

Principal Lecturer of Drum Set and Latin Percussion, Director of the Latin Jazz Lab Band

TONY BAKER

Professor of Trombone

JENNIFER BARNES

Professor of Vocal Jazz, Coordinator of Vocal Jazz Studies, Director of Jazz Singers

ALAN BAYLOCK

Associate Professor, Director of the One O'Clock Lab Band, Coordinator of Lab Bands

RODNEY BOOTH

Principal Lecturer of Jazz Trumpet

QUINCY DAVIS

Associate Professor of Jazz Percussion

RICHARD DEROSA

Professor of Jazz Composition & Arranging Director of the Three O’Clock Lab Band

PHILIP DIZACK

Assistant Professor of Jazz Trumpet

Coordinator of Jazz Chamber Music

ROSANA ECKERT

Principal Lecturer of Vocal Jazz

NICK FINZER

Assistant Professor of Jazz Trombone

BRAD LEALI Professor of Jazz Saxophone

FEDERICO LLACH

Assistant Professor of Commercial Music

EMERITUS FACULTY

DAVE MEDER

Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano Coordinator of Improvisation

DAVY MOONEY

Assistant Professor of Jazz Guitar

JESSICA MUÑIZ-COLLADO

Assistant Professor of Music Business

LYNN SEATON

Regents Professor of Jazz Bass

KIMBERLY HANNON TEAL

Assistant Professor of Jazz History & Research

SCOTT TIXIER

Assistant Professor of Jazz Violin

STAFF

CRAIG MARSHALL

Lab Bands Manager

MADISON RUSSELL

Administrative Coordinator, Division of Jazz Studies

Leon Breeden*, Dan Haerle, Fred Hamilton, John Murphy*, James Riggs, Paris Rutherford*, Jay Saunders, Neil Slater, Ed Soph and Mike Steinel

*Deceased

TEACHING FELLOWS & ASSISTANTS

Dakota Andersen, August Bish, Tito Charneco, Pete Clagett, Jacob Cortez, Joshua Cossette, Julie Coggiola, Ken Ebo, Joshua Ferrell, Andrew Getman, Ariel Glassman, Daniëlla Hart Rossouw, Cameron Henderson, Daniel Henson, Tomás Jonsson, Yeeun Kim, Brian Lawrence, Jason Lewin, Renée McGee, Mikayla Peterson, Ryan Peterson, Thomas Reilly, DJ Rice, Will St Peter, Jason Schilling, Aakash Sridhar, Aaron Stanley, Daniela Toralla, David Vest

ADMINISTRATION UNT SYSTEM

MICHAEL R. WILLIAMS Chancellor

UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS

NEAL SMATRESK President

MICHAEL MCPHERSON Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs

COLLEGE OF MUSIC

JOHN W. RICHMOND Professor and Dean

WARREN HENRY

FELIX OLSCHOFKA

EMILITA MARIN

RAYMOND ROWELL

Senior Associate Dean for Academic Affairs

Associate Dean for Operations

Assistant Dean for Business and Finance

Assistant Dean for Scholarships and External Affairs

KIRSTEN SORIANO Director of Undergraduate Studies

JAYMEE HAEFNER Director of Graduate Studies

BENJAMIN BRAND Chair, Division of Music History, Theory and Ethnomusicology

MOLLY FILLMORE Chair, Division of Vocal Studies

STEVEN HARLOS Chair, Division of Keyboard Studies

JOSEPH KLEIN Chair, Division of Composition Studies

KIMBERLY COLE LUEVANO Chair, Division of Instrumental Studies

ROB PARTON Chair, Division of Jazz Studies

SEAN POWELL Chair, Division of Music Education

ANDREW TRACHSEL Chair, Division of Conducting and Ensembles

CYRIEL AERTS Director, Piano Services

MATT HARDMAN Director, Communications, Marketing and Public Relations

AUSTIN MARTINEZ Director, Recording Services

CAROL POLLARD Director, Undergraduate Advising

JOEL WILEY Director, Admissions

MARIA BAYLOCK Executive Assistant to the Dean of the College of Music

MATT HELLMAN

Program Design, Graphic Design Specialist

COLLEGE OF MUSIC

VOCAL JAZZ EDUCATOR SEMINAR

June 22 - 24, 2023

Featured Faculty:

Jennifer Barnes

Heather Nail (Valley High School, Des Moines, IA)

This three-day seminar is packed full of content for high school and college-level teachers who either are already working with students on vocal jazz or are considering starting vocal jazz with their students.

Find out more at JAZZ.UNT.EDU/ VOCALJAZZSEMINAR

Registration is now open!

COLLEGE OF MUSIC

VOCAL JAZZ SUMMER WORKSHOP

June 25 - 29, 2023

Featured Faculty:

Jennifer Barnes • Rosana Eckert

Alison Wedding (Guest)

For four days, participants are involved in every aspect of vocal jazz, from solo performing skills and voice pedagogy to songwriting and jazz theory, as well as the opportunity to join together and sing in an ensemble.

Find out more at JAZZ.UNT.EDU/ VOCALJAZZWORKSHOP

Registration is now open!