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 The TEXAS ALL-STAR JAZZ CAMP is back for a fourteenth year! It's an amazing week of big bands, master classes, jazz theory, jazz arranging, improvisation and concerts. Students work in the outstanding facilities of Collin College's Spring Creek Campus. This year we will have an outstanding guest artist, saxophonist Dick Oatts, best known for his work with the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra.
 SAXOPHONE SECTION Randy Hamm (Southwest Missouri State University, Clark Terry) Joe Eckert (Airmen of Note, Texas Christian University) Glenn Kostur (Maynard Ferguson, University of New Mexico) Ed Petersen (University of New Orleans, Ron Carter, Cedar Walton) Kevin McNerney (Collin College) TRUMPET SECTION Jay Saunders (Woody Herman, Stan Kenton, UNT) Keith Jourdan (Count Basie) Dan Evans (Glenn Miller) Dave Von Blohn (UNT One O'Clock Lab Band, Collin College) Jon Leonard (West Point Jazz Knights) TROMBONE SECTIONKeith Adkins (Count Basie) Michael Burgess (Buddy Rich) Dave Butler (UNT One O'Clock Lab Band, Ella Fitzgerald) A.G. Robeson (Stan Kenton)
RHYTHM SECTION Kent Ellingson, piano (Dallas Arts Magnet) Tom Burchill, guitar (Texas Christian University, Collin) Mike Drake (University of North Texas, Bobby Shew, Paquito d'Rivera) Kris Berg, bass (Collin College)
VOCALIST Jennifer Shelton Barnes (Doc Severinsen)
 8:30 Theory/Arranging 9:30 Big Band Rehearsal/Sectionals 11:00 Master Classes NOON Lunch 1:00 Improvisation 2:00 Big Band Rehearsal/Sectionals 3:30 Individual Practice 7:45 Camp Meeting 8:00 Evening Concert, John Anthony Theatre (free and open to the public!)
 Tuition only: $265 (includes jazz camp T-shirt) Tuition and lunch: $310 (includes jazz camp T-shirt) Non-refundable deposit: $25 (balance due by July 1)
 Students who are 13 and older with at least one year of study on their instrument are encouraged to apply. The camp is also open to adult participants and educators. Vocal applicants should call for audition information. Upon receipt of application, applicants will be notified promptly (by postcard) of their acceptance. A final camp information packet will arrive after July 1, 2008. Please make all checks payable to CCCCD / JAZZ CAMP. (Please include drivers' license and phone numbers on your check.) FOR MORE INFORMATION and to get an informational poster/application mailed to you, call Kris Berg, Director of Jazz Studies, at 972-881-5108, or click here to send him an email. (NOTE: This camp page is being presented on kevinmcnerney.com as a public service...and because, as a member of the camp faculty, I'd like for as many people as possible to attend! Eventually, this page will be moving to Kris Berg's CCCCD Jazz Studies Department webpage. Click here to visit the current page and bookmark it for later.) Click here for the story of the live CD recorded by the faculty at the 2003 camp.
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