2019 TMEA All-State Program
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TENNESSEE ALL-STATE JAZZ BAND<br />
Ronald Carter, Director | Cord Martin, Ensemble Coordinator<br />
Philip Gregory & Chris Click, Sound Engineers<br />
<strong>Program</strong> to be selected from the following:<br />
Symphony in Riffs...................................................................................................................................................... Benny Carter<br />
On Green Dolphin Street.................................................................................................... Bronislaw Kaper & Ned Washington<br />
arr. Rick Hirsch<br />
Dat Dere................................................................................................................................................................Bobby Timmons<br />
arr. Erik Morales<br />
A Night in Tunisia......................................................................................................................................................Dizzy Gillespie<br />
arr. Mike Mossman<br />
Have A Nice Day..................................................................................................................................................... Sammy Nestico<br />
Chelsea Bridge......................................................................................................................................................... Billy Strayhorn<br />
arr. Greg Yasinitsky<br />
Count Bubba....................................................................................................................................................... Gordon Goodwin<br />
arr. Paul Murtha<br />
Gingerbread Boy......................................................................................................................................................... Jimmy Heath<br />
arr. Mike Tomaro<br />
Ronald Carter, Director<br />
Ronald Carter currently serves as a Distinguished Professor at UNC-Fayetteville <strong>State</strong><br />
University, Fayetteville, NC. Carter is former director and professor emeritus of the<br />
world-renowned Northern Illinois University (NIU) Jazz Ensemble and former Director<br />
of Jazz Studies. He continues to educate students in jazz education and performance<br />
on university, high school and performing arts schools and campuses across the<br />
country, South America and Canada.<br />
He co-directed the group Infiniti and performed with the legendary George Hudson<br />
Orchestra. Carter has also performed professionally with Clark Terry, Jimmy Heath,<br />
Lena Horne, Lou Rawls, The Jimmy Dorsey Band, Wallace Roney, The Temptations, The<br />
Dells, Oliver Lake, Hamiett Bluiett, Leon Thomas, Art Davis, Fareed Haque, Joseph Bowie,<br />
Frank Mantooth, Terell Stafford, Orbert Davis, Carl <strong>All</strong>en, Rodney Whitaker, and many<br />
others. An abbreviated list of his honors and awards includes Downbeat Magazine’s<br />
Jazz Educators Hall of Fame, The Woody Herman Music Award (Birch Creek Music Center), The 1991 Milken National<br />
Distinguished Educator Award, Southern Illinois University Excellence in Teaching Award, and the St. Louis American<br />
Newspaper’s Excellence in Teaching Award and Northern Illinois University Board of Trustees Professorship. Carter<br />
is currently an artist for Conn-Selmer, Inc. and D’Addario Woodwinds (Rico Reeds). Carter received his B.A. from<br />
Bethune-Cookman University and his M.A. from the University of Illinois.<br />
20<br />
<strong>2019</strong> TENNESSEE <strong>All</strong>-<strong>State</strong> Ensembles
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