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Clinicians
 Jim Warrick
www.ntjazz.com
James Warrick has been the Director of Jazz Studies at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Illinois since 1982. Some of the seventy artists that have performed under Warrick's direction including such names as Dizzy Gillespie, Woody Herman, Bob Mintzer, Clark Terry, Buddy Rich and Chick Corea. Jazz groups under his direction have recorded 32 CDs, performed in several European tours and a recent concert tour of China. His groups have performed at four Mid West International Band Clinics, three International Association of Jazz Educators international conventions, several Music Educators National Conference regional and national conventions, and at numerous Illinois Music Education Association conventions. In addition to teaching fulltime at New Trier, Warrick is also the on the faculty of Wheaton College where he directs the schools 90-member Symphonic Band.
Mr. Warrick has been either a festival clinician or guest director of All-State instrumental ensembles in sixteen states and is the current "International Chairman for Secondary Music Education" for the International Association of Jazz Education. His New Trier High School jazz groups have received 26 awards from Downbeat magazines Student Musician Awards Program, including six awards for "Best High School Big Band," more than any other high school jazz ensemble in the awards twenty-six year history.
Warrick has served as New Music Reviewer and Senior Editor for the Instrumentalist magazine, and been the "National Director of Student Activities" for the Fellowship of Christian Musicians. For the past nineteen summers, he has taught the student jazz ensemble at Birch Creek Music Center in Door County, Wisconsin. He is married to Judy, and has three children ages 13, 15, and 23, and a completely unruly yellow Lab named Lucy.
 Jeff Jarvis
www.jeffjarvis.net
Amherst Records artist, Jeff Jarvis has distinguished himself as a multi-faceted music industry professional. His solo recordings as a jazz trumpeter and composer have placed high on national air play charts and have won him critical acclaim. Jeff's early career as a studio trumpeter encompasses over 100 albums for such names as Lou Rawls, Melba Moore, and Michael Jackson.
Live performance credits include Dizzy Gillespie, Louie Bellson, Joe Williams, Jimmy Heath, Joe Lovano, Henry Mancini, Slide Hampton, Kevin Mahogany, Grady Tate, and Doc Severinsen. He is frequently commissioned to compose for various schools, military and professional musical groups. Jeff is a contributing editor for The Instrumentalist, in addition to writing for other music trade journals such as Flute Talk, Band & Orchestra Product News, and Jazz Educators Journal. He has coauthored The Jazz Educator's Handbook with Doug Beach, and a jazz piano book with Matt Harris entitled The Chord Voicing Handbook.
A Yamaha trumpet artist, Jeff has performed throughout the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and Indonesia. He has most recently been featured with the USAF Airmen of Note, Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Dallas Jazz Orchestra, US Army Jazz Ambassadors, Jazz Knights of the United States Military Academy Band at West Point, Riverside Jazz Orchestra, Oslo Big Band (Norway), US Army Blues, Frank Mantooth Jazz Orchestra, Denver Symphony Orchestra, USAF Shades of Blue and more.
Jeff is on the adjunct faculty at University of the Arts in Philadelphia. In high demand as an honors jazz band conductor, clinician and lecturer, Jeff presents workshops for jazz educators and students of all ages. He is the music director of the Central New York Jazz Orchestra and has served as Vice-President of the International Association of Jazz Educators. Jeff is CEO of Kendor Music, Inc., the first educational music publisher to provide jazz charts written especially for students.
 Jim Riggs
www.music.unt.edu/bio/riggs.shtml
Saxophonist James Riggs serves as Regents Professor at the University of North Texas where he teaches saxophone, directs the award winning Two O' Clock Lab Band and coordinates the world's largest enrollment of saxophone students. Riggs is recognized as an innovative teacher known for his insights into classical and jazz saxophone techniques and jazz improvisation. He has produced many award-winning saxophonists including first place winners and finalists in the North American Saxophone Alliance Young Artist Competition, finalists in the Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition and winners in Down Beat magazines Student Music Solo Awards. Riggs' former students hold teaching and performing positions in numerous colleges and universities throughout the United States and in major military bands in Washington, D.C. His students hold first call professional playing positions across the globe including Hamburg, New York City and Los Angeles. For four years including 2001, Down Beat Magazine selected the UNT Two O' Clock Jazz Band as ("Winner") of the Annual Student Music Awards. The Two O' Clock Lab Band has six recordings that are heard regularly on radio throughout Asia, Europe and the United States garnering praise from colleagues, composers, critics and garnering consideration by the NARAS Grammy's.
Riggs is a recording artist and has performed regularly with the Dallas and Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestras. Riggs performed with the Dallas Symphony on the European tour of Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Germany, England and Ireland. He recorded Prokoviev's Lt. Kije, Gershwin's Rhapsodie in Blue, Porgy and Bess and American In Paris with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and appeared as a jazz soloist with the United States Navy Commodores in Washington, D.C. Riggs has conducted All-State Jazz Bands in Michigan, Ohio, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Tennessee. Riggs has appeared as a featured performer and clinician at Jazz Festivals throughout the USA and Sweden. As a freelance artist he has performed with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Nancy Wilson, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, Stan Kenton and others. He holds degrees from the University of North Texas and the University of Toledo. Riggs is an artist/clinician for Selmer Corporation and Rico International.
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