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JEFFREY
HOLMES B.M., M.M., Eastman School of Music. Nationally published and commissioned composer/arranger, multiple recipient of National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Composition Grants; music written for Ernie Watts, Max Roach Yusef Lateef, Doc Severinsen, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, as well as numerous works for military, college, high school/middle school jazz concert and marching ensembles. Directs award-winning UMass Amherst Jazz Ensemble I and Studio Orchestra. Featured on the Jazz at Kennedy Center Series with the Billy Taylor Trio; subs regularly with the Paul Winter Consort; member of 11-piece classical ensemble Solid Brass and lead trumpet, New England Jazz Ensemble; leader Jeff Holmes Big Band; drums with Amherst Jazz Orchestra. Former panelist for National Endowment for the Arts and columnist for Jazzplayer Magazine. Reviewer for I.A.J.E. Journal; world tours, recordings, guest conductor/ clinician/adjudicator. Performances with Dizzy Gillespie, Sammy Davis Jr., Louis Bellson, Vanguard Orchestra (Thad Jones/Mel Lewis), Sheila Jordan, Henry Mancini, Johnny Mathis, Mel Torme, David Goloschokin, Bob Mintzer, Slide Hampton and numerous NYC Broadway shows. Associate Director, Jazz In July Improvisation Workshops. (Appointed 1979)
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