18 Mar 2022, Friday

 18 Mar 2022, Friday

Prioritized Daily Task

7:00 PM - Long Peak Jazz Festival, Alex is performing with the trombone 

Debbie and I had prayer together.  I went to the I.F.A. farm store and picked up 9, 5"X8' treated posts for the backyard.  I went to Home Depot and picked up wire and parts for the fencing support for the fruit trees and grapevines.  I came home and Debbie and I had brunch.  I carried the 9 posts to the backyard near the gate to the fence that opens into the area where we are planning to put the fire pit and plant the fruit trees.  I listened to some of Exodus chapters 1-6 with Jared Halverson's Come Follow Me podcast.  Debbie and I attended a Jazz Concert festival at Lone Peak High School where Alex Gourley performed on the trombone.  There are hundreds of high school children in the different bands in Sound House from all over Utah, mostly from around Salt Lake.  They use the Long Peak auditorium.  The price of a ticket was $15 and I would have expected to have paid $150 for a ticket.  The youth were exceptional but the guest performers were icons in the music industry.  I think it was the first time all of them were on stage performing together.  It was midnight before Debbie and I got home, had prayer, and got to bed. 

Gordon L. Goodwin (born 1954) is an American pianist, saxophonist, composer, arranger, and conductor. He wrote his first big band chart, called "Hang Loose", when he was in the 7th grade. He continued his musical education at Cal State Northridge with Joel Leach and Bill Calkins. Following graduation from college, Goodwin was employed as a musician at the Disneyland theme park in Anaheim, California. Subsequently, Disney approached him to write a musical show featuring past and present Mouseketeers, including Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera. Since then, Goodwin has risen to prominence in the American studio music scene with his big band, The Big Phat Band.  Goodwin has received many individual awards, including a Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Arrangement for his work on the feature film The Incredibles.

Vangie Gunn Goodwin, wife of Gordon Goodwin, 4 children.  She sang songs for the movie tracks,  Lion of Oz (2000) as Singer, Turning Point (2009-2010), Spiderman movie, etc.

Jody Espina was the Director of the Jazz Department at the prestigious Hoff Barthelson Music School in Scarsdale, New York, where he taught Jazz Theory, Improvisation, ensembles and private lessons.  Jody Espina had a long history as both a musician and educator before deciding to launch his own line of saxophone and clarinet mouthpieces. 

Thomas "Bones" Malone (born June 16, 1947) is an American jazz musician, arranger, and producer. As his nickname implies, he specializes on the trombone but he also plays saxophone, trumpet, tuba, flute, and bass guitar.[1] He has been a member of The Blues Brothers, Saturday Night Live Band, and the CBS Orchestra, the house band for the Late Show with David Letterman. 

Gregory W. Yasinitsky, Regents Professor of Music and Director of the School of Music at Washington State University, has an international reputation as a composer, arranger and saxophonist. He is a member of the Board of Directors for the Jazz Education Network and is a member of the Washington State Music Educators Hall of Fame. He is a recipient of grants and awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, The Commission Project, Artist Trust and ASCAP. Yasinitsky is the author of the book Improvisation 101: Major, Minor and Blues and has written music especially for David Sanborn, Clark Terry, Dave Liebman and the USAF "Airmen of Note" big band. Yasinitsky has over 210 published musical works performed in over forty countries world-wide and his compositions and saxophone playing are featured on over fifty recordings. Yasinitsky has performed with Randy Brecker, Sean Jones, Tom Harrell, Ed Calle, Alex Acuna, Kirk Whalum, Claudio Roditi, Conrad Herwig, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Louis Bellson, Stan Getz, Lionel Hampton, Lou Rawls, Manhattan Transfer, and many others. Yasinitsky is a Yamaha performing artist and JodyJazz Artist. Under Yasinitsky's leadership, the WSU Jazz Studies Program has received widespread recognition including awards from Down Beat magazine, invitations to perform at prestigious conferences and top awards at major jazz festivals.

 Dr. Ray Smith is a professor of saxophone at Brigham Young University. After receiving a Bachelor of Music Education from BYU, Smith went on to receive both his Master's and Doctor of Music degrees in Woodwinds Performance from Indiana University. Dr. Smith may teach saxophone, but he is proficient in flute, bassoon, clarinet, and oboe as well as several other instruments. He can be found playing with the Utah Symphony or the Tabernacle Choir at Temple Square periodically, and often with the Tantara band, Q’d Up. When he’s not playing music himself, he is probably directing BYU Synthesis, teaching musical clinics, or adjudicating a jazz festival.