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John Wasson | Hal Leonard John Wasson John Wasson is an award-winning performer, composer, arranger and conductor with a diversity of experiences in the music business. Born in 1956 and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota, John studied at the University of North Texas where he earned degrees in Music Theory and Trombone Performance, and played for 3 seasons in the acclaimed One o’clock Lab Band with which he toured throughout the US and Europe and appeared on four recordings. He has also been a member of the Woody Herman and Stan Kenton Orchestras and was a charter member of the Dallas Brass. As a composer and arranger, John’s music has been heard around the world in a variety of settings from his arrangement of Caravan heard in the final scene of the Academy Award-winning motion picture “Whiplash” to his orchestrations performed by the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, the Dallas Winds, and the Carolina Crown Drum Corps. He has also been the primary composer and arranger of the Dallas Brass for over 35 years. As a commercial composer and producer, John has created music for such clients as the Ken Burns American Heritage Prize, National Geographic, The United Way, Electronic Data Systems, the Salvation Army and Zola Levitt Ministries. Many of his compositions and arrangements appear in the catalogs of several publishers including Hal Leonard, C. L. Barnhouse, Alfred Music, and Praise Charts.  John currently directs the Jazz Ensembles and teaches Music Theory, Composition and Arranging at Texas A&M University-Commerce. He also leads and performs in his own Strata Big Band and CoolBrass Jazztet. John is an XOBrass performing artist.  Publications by John Wasson
John La Barbera | Hal Leonard John La Barbera John La Barbera started playing cornet when he was five; by the age of seven he was performing with his parents and brothers Pat and Joe in the La Barbera Family Band, and by the late sixties he was playing trumpet and touring the world in the great Buddy Rich Orchestra. This was the beginning of his 19-year association with Buddy as his principal composer/arranger. John’s studies at the S.U.N.Y at Potsdam, Berklee College, the Eastman School of Music, and private study with Rayburn Wright contributed to his love of writing and strengthened his skills for a career in composition and arranging. He went on to play and write for many renowned big bands and is now one of the most respected composer/arrangers in jazz. His works have been recorded and performed by Buddy Rich, Woody Herman, Count Basie, Dizzy Gillespie, Mel Tormé, Chaka Khan, Harry James, Bill Watrous, Bill Perkins, Al Cohn and Phil Woods, to name just a few. John's Grammy-nominated big band CD On The Wild Side, Fantazm, and his latest Caravan have been met with tremendous artistic and commercial success. As co-producer and arranger for The Glenn Miller Orchestra Christmas recordings (In The Christmas Mood I & II), he has received Gold, Double and Triple Platinum records. He is a co-founder of the internationally acclaimed women’s big band DIVA, and has contributed work as an orchestrator for Broadway shows, with A Chorus Line being the most notable. A former Director of Jazz Ensembles at Cornell University, Mr. La Barbera is now Professor Emeritis of Music at the University of Louisville, where he implemented and teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in composition and arranging, TV and film scoring, and music industry. During his seven-year term as jazz editor of the International Trumpet Guild, his interviews with the world's leading jazz trumpet artists were a regular feature of the ITG Journal. John is active as a clinician and lecturer in colleges and high schools throughout the U.S. and abroad. He is a two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts award for Jazz Composition, and has served as a panelist for the NEA in the music category. His career has been profiled in dozens of publications and encyclopedias, most notably the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz and the Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz.  Publications by John La Barbera
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