Keith Hancock (born 1980) is an American two-time Grammy-nominated music instructor, winning the Grammy Music Educator of the Year award in 2017, [1] and being nominated and selected as a top-10 finalist in 2016. [2] He was the first vocal music educator to win the award as well as the first recipient on the West Coast. [3]
Hancock is the music director at Compass Bible Church in Aliso Viejo, California where he periodically sings in the worship band during weekend church services. [4] He teaches music in the California public school system at Tesoro High School where he has grown the program from 35 to 225 students. [1] His personal music career includes performing on stage at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Hollywood Bowl, and the Segerstrom Center for the Arts (formerly the Orange County Performing Arts Center). [3]
Herbert Jeffrey Hancock is an American pianist, keyboardist, bandleader, composer, and occasional actor. Hancock started his career with trumpeter Donald Byrd’s group. He shortly thereafter joined the Miles Davis Quintet, where he helped to redefine the role of a jazz rhythm section and was one of the primary architects of the post-bop sound. In the 1970s, Hancock experimented with jazz fusion, funk, and electro styles, utilizing a wide array of synthesizers and electronics.
The Grammy Award, or just Grammy, is an award presented by the Recording Academy to recognize achievement in the music industry. The trophy depicts a gilded gramophone. The Grammys are the first of the Big Three networks' major music awards held annually. The Grammy is considered one of the four major annual American entertainment awards, along with the Academy Awards, the Emmy Awards, and the Tony Awards.
Wynton Learson Marsalis is an American trumpeter, composer, teacher, and artistic director of Jazz at Lincoln Center. He has promoted classical and jazz music, often to young audiences. Marsalis has won at least nine Grammy Awards, and his Blood on the Fields was the first jazz composition to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He is the only musician to win a Grammy Award in jazz and classical during the same year.
Stanley Clarke is an American bassist, film composer and founding member of Return to Forever, one of the first jazz fusion bands. Clarke gave the bass guitar a prominence it lacked in jazz-related music. He is the first jazz-fusion bassist to headline tours, sell out shows worldwide and have recordings reach gold status.
Wayne Shorter is an American jazz saxophonist and composer. Shorter came to wide prominence in the late 1950s as a member of, and eventually primary composer for, Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. In the 1960s, he went on to join Miles Davis's Second Great Quintet, and from there he co-founded the jazz fusion band Weather Report. He has recorded over 20 albums as a bandleader.
Armando Anthony "Chick" Corea was an American jazz composer, keyboardist, bandleader, and occasional percussionist. His compositions "Spain", "500 Miles High", "La Fiesta", "Armando's Rhumba" and "Windows" are widely considered jazz standards. As a member of Miles Davis's band in the late 1960s, he participated in the birth of jazz fusion. In the 1970s he formed Return to Forever. Along with McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock, and Keith Jarrett, Corea is considered one of the foremost jazz pianists of the post-John Coltrane era.
The Berkeley Carroll School is a coed independent college prep school in New York City. Located in Park Slope, Brooklyn, it has a Lower School, Middle School and Upper School.
Tesoro High School is a public high school in southern Orange County area of Las Flores, California, United States. Established in the fall of 2001, Tesoro is 1 of 6 regular high schools in the Capistrano Unified School District. As of the 2014–2015 year, Tesoro serves nearly 2500 students in grades 9–12. Students attending Tesoro are within the cities of Rancho Santa Margarita, Las Flores, Ladera Ranch, Coto de Caza and Mission Viejo.
Dee Dee Bridgewater is an American jazz singer. She is a three-time Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award-winning stage actress. For 23 years, she was the host of National Public Radio's syndicated radio show JazzSet with Dee Dee Bridgewater. She is a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for the Food and Agriculture Organization.
George Whitty is an American musician, composer, record producer, audio engineer and music educator, currently living near Los Angeles, California, United States. He won an Emmy Award in 2014 for his work as a composer for the television series, All My Children, and produced three Grammy Award winning CDs. Whitty was nominated for Emmy Awards for his composing on the long-running TV shows One Life to Live and As the World Turns.
William Edward Childs is an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger and conductor from Los Angeles, California, United States.
Robert Andre Glasper is an American pianist, record producer, songwriter and musical arranger with a career that bridges musical and artistic genres. To date, Glasper has won four Grammy Awards and received nine nominations across eight categories. He also won the 2017 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics for his song featured in Ava DuVernay’s critically hailed documentary, 13th, with Common and Karriem Riggins.
Robert Alan Cutietta is best known as an educator, author, researcher, composer, and arts leader. He is the author or co-author of five books and over fifty referereed research articles in the area of music psychology and education. He is also a composer, having written for television shows and movies.
The Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz is a non-profit music education organization founded in 1986. Before 2019, it was known as the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, but was then renamed after its longtime Board Chairman, Herbie Hancock.
Caleb Chapman is an American music educator, author, entrepreneur, producer, bandleader, and musician from Derry, New Hampshire who currently resides in Utah. A graduate of Brigham Young University, he is the founder and Chairman of Caleb Chapman's Soundhouse, a professional musician training program with locations across the U.S. and the director of Caleb Chapman's Crescent Super Band. Chapman has been recognized for his contributions to music education and has received numerous honors for his work as an educator.
Angel Joy Blue, is an American operatic soprano and classical crossover artist. Her voice has been recognized for its shining and agile upper register, "smoky" middle register, beautiful timbre, and ability to switch from a classical to a contemporary sound. She has performed internationally and won numerous awards including a Grammy Award, Operalia and Miss Hollywood. Plácido Domingo once described her as “the next Leontyne Price”.
Jason "Spicy G" Goldman, known professionally as Spicy G, is an American music producer, songwriter, arranger, multi-instrumentalist, and educator. He co-produced Michael Buble's Grammy Nominated, Juno winning, platinum selling 2016 album Nobody But Me and co-wrote the lead single "Nobody But Me".
Spencer Ludwig is an American trumpeter, singer, songwriter, producer and musical director from Los Angeles, California. Ludwig is the former trumpet player of the band Capital Cities. He recorded on their platinum debut album In a Tidal Wave of Mystery and toured with them from 2011 to 2015. He has also performed with, Harry Styles, Dua Lipa, Gallant, Mike Posner, Foster the People, Portugal. The Man, Fitz and the Tantrums, RAC, Joywave, St. Lucia, Cherub, and The Wailers. In 2018 he began his career as an independent artist and formed Trumpet Records.
The UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, located on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles, is “the first school of music to be established in the University of California system.” Established in 2007 under the purview of the UCLA School of Arts and Architecture and the UCLA Division of Humanities, the UC Board of Regents formally voted in January 2016 to establish the school.[1] Supported in part by a $30 million endowment from the Herb Alpert Foundation.[1]
Andrew David Perkins is an active American music educator, conductor and composer of contemporary classical music, with an emphasis on music for wind band.