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Faculty – Jazz

DAVE MANLEY
Jazz, Pop, Rock, Classical, Country & Fingerstyle Guitar

Professional musician

Toured and recorded with Herbie Hancock, Jill Scott, DJ Jazzy Jeff, Music Soul Child, Jeff Bradshaw, Carrol Riddick, Raheem Devahgn, Chiwoniso Maraire, Kindred The Family Soul, Dave Chappelle. Performed in Dave Chappelle’s “Block Party” movie, featured in Jill Scott’s “Live in Paris” DVD. Performed on “Ellen” “The View”, “The Tonight Schow” “Jimmy Kimmel” “The Tavis Smiley Show”, “The Today Show”. Faculty (guitar, music theory, jazz improvisation, and jazz ensemble) at Eastern University, PA.

Marty Nau
MARTY NAU
Saxophone

Professional musician

Former lead alto sax, Navy Commodores. Member, Capitol Quartet. Performed with Tommy Dorsey and Dorsey Brothers orchestras, “Blues Alley Big Band,” Bill Potts Big Band, Guy Lombardo, National Symphony, Richmond Symphony, Baltimore Symphony with musicians Dizzy Gillespie, Eddie Daniels, Stanley Turrentine, Joe Williams, Rosemary Clooney, Ray Charles, Nancy Wilson, Maureen McGovern. Lead alto, Great American Music Ensemble. Selmer jazz clinician.

STEVE NOVOSEL
Acoustic & Electric Bass

Professional musician

Performed and recorded with Andrew White, Roland Kirk, Stanley Cowell, David “Fathead” Newman and Eddie Harris. Performed with other jazz greats including Cedar Walton, McCoy Tyner, Hank Jones, Milt Jackson, Dizzy Gillespie, Clark Terry, Sonny Rollins, Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis, Harry “Sweets” Edison, James Moody, Archie Shepp and Blue Mitchell. Accompanied many singers including Billy Eckstine, Joe Williams, Donny Hathaway, Anita O’Day, Roberta Flack, Betty Carter. Performed on Verve recording releases of singer Shirley Horn. Tours with Red Norvo, Tal Farlow, Al Grey and David “Fathead” Newman. Over 60 recordings. Faculty, University of the District of Columbia.

CHRIS BARRICK
Drum Set, Percussion

M.M. (Percussion Performance) Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music, B.M., Indiana University Jacobs School of Music.

Taught jazz percussion and world music at Northern Kentucky University and percussion, jazz improvisation and music theory at Cincinnati Christian University. As jazz vibraphonist and drummer performed and recorded with Mike Darrah, Michael Sharfe, Rusty Burge, Marc Wolfley, Brad Myers, Dan Dorff, John Von Ohlen, Brent Gallaher, Brian Hogg, Dan Karlsberg and Tom Buckley. Performed as a timbalero with salsa and Latin jazz ensembles such as Tropciso, Clave Son and Mambo Diablo and as a drummer with the Cincinnati Frequency Band. As a classical percussionist performed with orchestras and chamber ensembles including the Lexington Philharmonic, Cincinnati Vocal Arts Ensemble, Cincinnati Ballet New Works Series, Richmond (IN) Symhpony Orchestra, Evansville Philharmonic and Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra.

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