Alumni who played with earlier Brown jazz groups include Red Balaban, '51, former owner of Eddie Condon's and Jimmy Ryan's Jazz Clubs in New York, trombonist Stan Vincent, '57' of the New Black Eagle Jazz Band. In recent years the jazz program at Brown has grown to include instrumental instruction, courses in history, transcription and analysis, composition and arranging, and improvisation, an eighteen member big band, and combos, all available for academic credit. Jazz musicians of the highest caliber such as Professor Timo Vollbrecht, Professor Dana Gooley, Ed Tomassi, Ron Sanfilippo, Paul Mason, Dave Zinno, Daniela Schachter, and Paul Kolesnikow teach these courses and offer private instruction in our Applied Music Program.
Course:
MUSC 0630
Director:
Timo Vollbrecht