Jazz Educator
Working with students at The Principia, St. Louis, MO, in 2011.
Steve has been involved with jazz education since 1956 working with high school stage bands as well as privately with students interested in knowing more about and playing better jazz. Steve taught instrumental music & jazz band for 4 years at Saint Edwards Academy a private school in Florida.
He was offered the directorship of the International Association for Jazz Educators in 1983 but had to decline due to a prior contract.
He was offered the directorship of the International Association for Jazz Educators in 1983 but had to decline due to a prior contract.
TEXAS JAZZ!
Eddie Durham - "Ambassador of TEXAS JAZZ"!
Eddie Durham was an American jazz trombonist, guitarist, composer and musical arranger of the swing music medium born in San Marcos, Texas, probably best known for his work with musicians like Cab Calloway, Willie Bryant, Andy Kirk, Glenn Miller, Jimmie Lunceford and Count Basie, among others. He is the co-composer (with Edgar Battle) of the tune "Topsy", recorded by the Count Basie Orchestra and later by many others. He also was the arranger for Glenn Miller's "In the Mood". He is also credited for recording the world's first jazz electric guitar solo with a Gibson ES-150 guitar in 1938 on Lester Young's Kansas City Five sessions.
http://www.txstate.edu/ctmh/tmho/classroom/eddie-durham.html
Jazz Lecturer/Entertainer
Thursday, May 17, 11:00-12:45 "Big Band and the Jazz Scene" - Steve, Guest Lecturer for the Prime Timers of First United Methodist Church, Nacogdoches, TX at the Fredonia Hotel
Thursday, May 17, 11:00-12:45 "Big Band and the Jazz Scene" - Steve, Guest Lecturer for the Prime Timers of First United Methodist Church, Nacogdoches, TX at the Fredonia Hotel