Meet the UNF Jazz Studies Faculty
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Bunky Green Director of Jazz Studies • B.A.E. Chicago State University Professor Green received film credit for his background solo work in Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun, featuring Danny Glover and Esther Rolle. He is Past President and permanent chair of the Past Presidents Council of the world's largest jazz education organization, the International Association of Jazz Educators (IAJE). Professor Green received a rare five star rating from Down Beat Magazine for his album Healing the Pain. Along with Gary Burton, Gerald Wilson, Jackie McLean, and Rufus Reid, he was cited in a 1995 Down Beat Magazine article recognizing the nation's leading jazz educators who are also respected players. In a 1997 Down Beat article, saxophone great Joe Lovano said, "Bunky personifies what jazz is all about. He's combined all the inspiration of Parker and Dolphy and fused it into an individual voice. He's the kind of player I've always strived to be in my music, taking hold of history and then moving on, through self-expression. Working alongside him has been a real highlight." In January of 1999, Professor Green was inducted into the IAJE Hall of Fame. Most recently in 2003, he was inducted into the DownBeat Hall of Fame for Jazz Education. |
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Michelle Amato Jazz Voice • B.M., M.M. University of Miami Michelle Amato is a dynamic vocalist whose abilities to convey the deep passion of a lyric, as well as soar effortlessly through the stratosphere, are making her one of the most in demand names in music today. She performs regularly at the Van Dyke Café on South Beach, Timpano's Restaurant, and The Grand Bohemian Hotel in Orlando, as well as numerous music festivals. She has been a featured soloist with the Memphis Symphony, the South Florida Pops, the Baton Rouge Symphony, the Florida West Coast Symphony, the Orlando Philharmonic, and the All-American College Orchestra at Epcot Center. Michelle also stays extremely active in the recording studio singing and contracting for Royal Caribbean, Costa and Carnival Cruise Lines, Warner Brothers and Shawnee Press Publishers, Walt Disney World, and numerous jingle production companies throughout the country. She has performed and recorded with an incredibly diverse array of artists including Liza Minelli, Jon Secada, Al Green, Sandi Patty, Jon Hendricks, Donna Summer, Michael McDonald, Celia Cruz, Rita Marley, and has most recently been recording and touring with world renowned composer Yanni. Her solo work can be heard on his latest CD Ethnicity and she is a featured soloist on his newest video, Yanni Live. She recorded the title cut on Dirty Martini's debut CD Save Your Love for Me and her own debut CD I'm All Smiles is completed and available for purchase on her website. Michelle, who holds a Master's degree from the prestigious University of Miami School of Music, is also in great demand as an educator and clinician. She has coached vocalists for Cirque du Soleil and taught private students and directed jazz vocal ensembles at The University of Miami, Miami Dade Community College, The University of Memphis, Rollins College, and is currently teaching at The University of North Florida. She has conducted vocal master classes and clinics for the International Association of Jazz Educators, The North American Cultural Center in San Jose, Costa Rica, and various groups at Walt Disney World, including the popular Voices of Liberty, a group she also had the pleasure of performing in for several years. Her adjudicating duties include the National Foundation for the Advancement of the Arts, the Florida Vocal Association, and various jazz societies. |
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Lynne Arriale
Jazz Piano Director of Jazz Combos • B.A. University of Wisconsin-Madison As part of Japan's “100 Golden Fingers” tour, Arriale performed with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Harold Mabern, Junior Mance, Monty Alexander, Roger Kellaway, Ray Bryant, and Cedar Walton. Upcoming performances include festivals and concerts with jazz legends George Mraz and Randy Brecker. The Lynne Arriale Trio's tenth and current release, LIVE, won the German Record Critics Award for its CD/DVD of their 2005 Burghausen Festival performance. Previous releases include Come Together, Arise, which hit #17 on Billboard, #1 on UPI’s Best Jazz CDs ‘03, and along with its predecessor, Inspiration, reached #1 on national jazz radio, #1 in New Yorker Magazine’s Best CDs ’03 and also won that year’s German Record Critics Award. Lynne received the SESAC Award for Come Together. The trio’s earlier CDs include Live at Montreux, Melody, A Long Road Home, With Words Unspoken, When You Listen, and The Eyes Have It. Arriale has been featured in Billboard, Down Beat, Jazz Times, JAZZIZ, the BBC Magazine, the London Times, on the covers of One Way, and M Magazines and covered extensively in other international print media. She has performed in concert and on NPR's “Piano Jazz" with Marian McPartland, two “Jazz Set" performances, hosted by Branford Marsalis and Dee Dee Bridgewater and "Weekend Edition." Other media appearances include CNN/FN’ Biz, NPR’s Jazz Piano Christmas - Live from The Kennedy Center, radio and television interviews throughout the US, UK and Europe, including the BBC, Radio France and German National Television. PBS is currently featuring Arriale's trio on "Profile of a Performing Artist," a series that has included Luciano Pavarotti, Diana Krall and Elvis Costello. Lynne conducts educational clinics and master classes throughout the United States and Europe, has been a faculty member of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Workshops, the Centrum Port Townsend Jazz Workshop, and the Thelonious Monk Institute. She has performed at three IAJE conventions, APAP and CMJ conventions, has served as an IAJE Resource Team Member in piano pedagogy, a member of the IAJE Sisters in Jazz Advisory Board, and has served as an adjudicator and guest artistic director of the Sisters in Jazz Collegiate Competition. Lynne has adjucated the Montreux Jazz Festival Piano Competition, the American Pianists Association Fellowship Awards, The Kennedy Center's Mary Lou Williams Competition, and the Great American Jazz Piano Competition. In August ’08, Arriale presented an extraordinary new lineup of iconic musicians on her new CD/DVD, Lynne Arriale – The Bennett Studio Sessions. In addition to Arriale as leader/composer/arranger, the band features jazz legend George Mraz on bass; Anthony Pinciotti on drums, whose work with James Moody and John Abercrombie has received high critical praise; and the great All-Star, Randy Brecker on trumpet and flugelhorn. The project was recorded at the multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning BENNETT STUDIOS, and will include video documentation of behind the scenes footage of the CD recording, a bonus DVD program of a live, private, “in-studio” audience concert, and up close and personal interviews with each artist. |
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Dr. Marc Dickman
Low Brass Jazz Ensembles • B.S. Troy State University Dr. Marc Dickman, from Valdosta, Georgia, is a founding member of the acclaimed jazz studies program at the University of North Florida. Dr. Dickman earned degrees from Troy State University, McNeese State University, and the University of North Texas. His versatility on euphonium, trombone, bass-trombone, and tuba in the classical and jazz styles places him in much demand in the United States. At UNF he teaches applied low brass and jazz ensemble. His students have won awards in the jazz and classical areas. Dr. Dickman was a featured jazz artist at the 2000 International Tuba Euphonium Conference in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, the 2001 ITEC in Lahti, Finland, the 2002 ITEC in Greenville, NC, and the 2004 ITEC in Budapest, Hungary, and the 2005 and 2008 U.S. Army Tuba Euphonium Conference. Dr. Dickman is a founding member of the groundbreaking jazz ensemble, the Modern Jazz Tuba Project. The MJT Project has two critically acclaimed releases; Live From the Bottom Line, and Favorite Things. Marc’s CD, A Weaver of Dreams, is available at cdbaby.com and tubagear.com. It is the first jazz euphonium recording to be available through popular services such as iTunes and Real Networks. Dr. Dickman has performed in the following countries: USA, Japan, Finland, Hungary, Paraguay, Uruguay, Canada, Honduras, and Columbia. Dr. Marc Dickman is a Besson performing artist. |
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Danny Gottlieb Drumset Jazz Combos • B.M. University of Miami Danny Gottlieb is one of the most popular jazz drummers in the world. While best known as a founding member of the original Pat Metheny Group, Danny has performed and recorded with some of the greatest names in music. They include: Gary Burton, Gil Evans, Sting, Bobby McFerrin, John Mclaughlin, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Pat Metheny, Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Eddie Gomez, Lew Soloff, Al Di Meola, Jeff Berlin, Michael Franks, The GRP Big Band, the George Gruntz Concert Jazz Band, the Woody Herman Orchestra, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Jon Faddis and the Carnagie Hall Jazz Orchestra, the Manhattan Jazz Orchestra, Mike Stern, John Scofield, Jim Hall, the Manhattan Transfer, Larry Coryell, the NDR Big Band (Hamburg), the WDR Big Band (Cologne), Booker T and the MG's, and the Blues Brothers band featuring Steve Cropper and Eddy Floyd. Danny's 2008 projects have included performances at the Internatioanl Association of Jazz Educators Convention in Toronto; National Asscociation of Music Merchandisers Convention (Anaheim); Jacksonville Jazz Festival; Hamburg (Germany) Jazz Festival; Hannover (Germany) Jazz Festival; Paderborn(Germany) Percussion Festival; European and U.S. Military benefit concerts with bass playing actor Gary Sinise (with wife Beth Gottlieb on percussion), including a concert at the Pentagon and Walter Reed Hospital in Washington, D.C.; a feature at the Alabama Day of Percussion; a Paris concert with guitarist Nguyen Le; the JVC Jazz Festival in New York with bassist Jay Leonhart and trombonist Wycliff Gordon; the International Composer's workshop featuring Jim McNeely and Bill Holman; recordings with guitarist Muriel Anderson, guitarist Peter Fessler, bassist Jeff Berlin, and a live DVD featuring the NDR Big Band of Hamburg, Germany. A long time student of legendary jazz drummer Joe Morello, Danny's teaching experience includes Rollins College, Winter Park, Florida, and the University of South Florida in Tampa. A graduate of the University of Miami, Danny brings 30 years of professional experience, musical diversity, and enthusiasm to the UNF jazz faculty. |
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Barry Greene
Guitar • B.A. William Paterson University Greene currently has three CDs out as a leader Sojourner, At Home, and Urban Jazz. Just Jazz Guitar magazine says his improvisations were creative with impeccable technique, while 20th Century Guitar wrote,"Greene's work has all the urgency of the best of Pat Martino's work . . . " and allaboutjazz.com describes him as "an excellent player, a superior musician with power to spare . . . " Barry Greene has several books published with Mel Bay Publications. He continues to endorse Thomastik-Infeld strings, Clarus amplifiers, Raezors Edge speaker cabinets, and Buscarino Guitars. He has performed at the Long Island Guitar Show held in New York, for the past five years. and has been an instructor at the prestigious National Guitar Workshop held each summer in Connecticut for the past eight. Greene is a Professor of Jazz Guitar at UNF, where he has been since 1995. He has composed or arranged over seventy pieces of guitar ensemble music, as well as several big band compositions. |
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Dr. Clarence Hines
Arranging Trombone • B.M. University of North Florida Dr. Clarence Hines has received recognition and awards for several of his compositions and arrangements, including Down Beat awards for Best Jazz Arrangement and Best Performance. His works have been premiered at the Midwest Band and Orchestra Clinic, the International Association for Jazz Education Conference, and most recently at the Rochester International Jazz Festival and the International Tuba – Euphonium Conference. Dr. Hines’ works were featured in recent performances by the U.S. Army’s Jazz Ambassadors and the Army Blues, and can also be heard on the UNF Jazz Ensemble I recordings And the Melody Still Lingers On, Second Thoughts, and Things To Come. UNC Jazz Press, the largest publisher of advanced music for jazz ensembles, publishes many of Dr. Hines’ compositions. In addition to performing throughout the United States and Canada, Dr. Hines has also toured Central America and Europe and performed with Slide Hampton, Bob Brookmeyer, Dick Oatts, Richie Cole, Johnny Mathis, Josh Groban, the Temptations, Allen Vizzutti, John Pizzarelli, Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, and the Harry James Orchestra. His festival appearances include the North Sea Jazz Festival, the East Coast Jazz Festival, the Jacksonville Jazz Festival, and the Rochester International Jazz Festival. Prior to teaching at UNF, Dr. Hines coached combos and directed the Jazz Lab Band at the Eastman School of Music where he also studied composition and arranging with Bill Dobbins and Dave Rivello. Dr. Hines has also served on the faculty of summer music programs such as the Birch Creek Summer Jazz Session, Eastman Summer Jazz Studies, and the Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp. |
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Dennis Marks Jazz Bass Jazz Ensembles • B.M., M.M. University of Miami Dennis has appeared on Sandoval's last six recordings, including the Grammy-award winning Hot-House. For one of the recordings, My Passion for the Piano, he wrote two of the compositions. He has performed at almost every major jazz festival during the last several years, including the JVC Festival in New York, the Playboy Festival in L.A., and the North Sea Festival in Holland. In 1996, Dennis recorded his debut album Images on the Fantasy/Contemporary label. This album, which contains all original compositions, has received much critical acclaim. Dennis has been very active in the educational field, teaching at Florida International University for nine years and at the University of Miami for two. He has given clinics at Virginia Tech, the University of Illinois, and the University of Texas. Dennis holds a B.M. in Jazz Performance and a M.M in Studio Jazz Writing from the University of Miami. |
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J.B. Scott Jazz Ensembles Trumpet • B.A. University of North Florida Beginning his career with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra and the Ringling Bros. & Barnum and Bailey Circus (Japan), he then became the musical director and cornetist with the world-renowned Dukes of Dixieland for over three years. Professor Scott was featured on two CDs, the PBS special A Salute to Jelly Roll Morton and performed with Skitch Henderson and the New York Pops at Carnegie Hall. Professor Scott has performed with such major artists as Al Hirt, Paquito D’Rivera, Ken Peplowski, Red Hollaway, Eddie Higgins, Jeff Hamilton, and Lynn Seaton. His festival appearances include the Elkhart Jazz Festival, Sacramento Jazz Jubilee, Montreux Jazz Festival, Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Clearwater Jazz Holiday, and at various IAJE Conventions. He performs frequently as a featured artist and as co-leader of the Lisa Kelly & JB Scott Jazz 5tet (Mainstream), the Swamp Dog Jazz Band (Dixieland), and the Florida Jazz Plus (Big Band) music organization. Professor Scott also presents workshops and popular “Jazz for Kids” community outreach concerts for jazz festivals and elementary to high school children. He is much in demand as a YAMAHA trumpet artist/clinician and adjudicator. An Associate Professor of Jazz Studies at UNF, Professor Scott teaches trumpet, jazz ensembles, and various jazz related courses. He has co-released three recordings Home, Keepin' Out Of Mischief Now, and Memories of Tomorrow. |
