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| Champouillon (L), Hood and the ETSU Big Band |
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| (L-R) Sparks, Champouillon, Hood, Schwabe, and Maegdlin |
On November 17-18 2006, trumpeter Al Hood was in residence at East Tennessee State University. Invited by Dr. David Champouillon, Associate Professor of Trumpet and Jazz Studies at ETSU, Hood spent two days teaching master classes, doing rehearsals and a radio show, and was featured guest artist on the “Jazz At The Millennium” concert series. Hood and Champouillon have a long time friendship, starting when they were introduced by the late Gil Johnson as they both studied with him and attended the famed University of Miami jazz program. The concert featured both of their love for the music of Clifford Brown as they performed classics including A Portrait of Jennie and I Remember Clifford. They also paid homage to legendary jazz trumpeters through performances of Squeaky’s Blues (Clark Terry), Birks Wirks (Dizzy Gillespie), Nadalin (Bobby Shew), Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham), and a special two-trumpet big band feature, arranged by Champouillon, of the classic Ziggy Elman tune, And The Angels Sing” The concert also featured guest artists Mark Maegdlin, pianist from Chicago, Jonathan Schwabe, bassist from the University of Northern Iowa, and Marvin Sparks, percussionist from Houston. These artists, along with Champouillon, were the graduate jazz faculty at Eastern Illinois University in the late 1980s when they won the Downbeat Student Award for Best College Big Band.
The “JATM” concert series is the fall expansion of the annual spring Tri-Cities Jazz Fest which has already featured Maynard Ferguson, Marvin Stamm, Jon Faddis, and Doc Severinsen. By popular demand, Al Hood has been invited back as a featured guest artist for the 2007 Tri-Cities Jazz Fest.
Websites:
Music at ETSU
Al Hood at Lamont School of Music
