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professional level quality playing,” Zinninger said.

The idea comes from the state of the art recording studio built within the School of Music’s new building that opened in 2020.

“Out of the Blue,” a trumpet ensemble recorded album released in November.

Texas A&M University-Kingsville School of Music recently released two albums within the last year, becoming one of the few schools to record and release albums in the country.

The School of Music’s Jazz Combo released an album titled “Dendrology,” a name coming from a piece composed by Joseph Hernandez who played piano in the album.

“Dendrology” was an album mostly composed and fully recorded by students.

“It’s important because it gives them a solid record of what they did here... It’s preserved for all of time… that shows exactly in a very high quality way, what they worked on and the album is almost entirely student composition,” Director of

Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Saxophone Dr. Thomas Zinninger said. The “Dendrology” album recording has a few yet-to-be released songs following the ology theme.

“It’s rare to produce an album I think of that high quality especially for undergrad students studying jazz at an institution of higher learning like this. I think some of that rivals

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“Back when I was their age you always wanted to get recordings of live performances because the live performance was the best, it had the best energy, it had the best performance, even though it might not be totally clean, it was the one we kind of wanted to emulate,” Associate Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Dr. Kyle Millsap said.

After receiving the song compositions, Millsap wanted to be the frst premiere recording for the compositions before