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Gary Bartz
Marcus Belgrave
Kenneth Davis

Peter Dominguez
Robin Eubanks
Robert Ferrazza
Billy Hart
Wendell Logan, Chair
Dan Wall


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Motor City Success For the Oberlin Jazz Septet

Trombone Professor Robin Eubanks Awarded Pair of Commissions

Two Evenings of Music Celebrate
the Centennial of Poet Langston Hughes

Listening Room: Robin Eubanks

Jazz Trumpet Professor Marcus Belgrave Honored
with Benny Golson Jazz Master Award


Legendary Brubeck Album Jazz at Oberlin was Recorded Fifty Years Ago—March 2, 1953

Catching Up with Our Kids in Cleveland

 

Oberlin Conservatory of Music

Alumni: Jazz Musicians

 

Numerous Oberlin graduates have achieved success in the jazz idiom, recording, performing, and composing for such artists as Anthony Braxton, Art Blakey, Anita Baker, Dizzy Gillespie, Roscoe Mitchell, Dollar Brand, Lionel Hampton, Mercer Ellington, Nathan Davis, and Al Grey, among others. Many have also recorded albums under their own names. Here are some of Oberlin's jazz musicians:

 

Ted Baker '83

      Keyboards

Stanley Cowell '62
      Pianist and composer

Leon Lee Dorsey '81

      Bassist, composer, and arranger

 

Allen Farnham '83

       Pianist, arranger, and producer

 

Lafayette Harris '85

              Pianist, arranger

Paul Horn '52

              Flutist

 

Ben Jaffe '93

              Bassist, member of Preservation Hall Jazz Band

Jon Jang '78

              Composer, pianist

 

James McBride '79

              Writer, composer, saxophonist

 

Michael Mossman '82

              Trumpeter, trombonist, composer

 

 

 

 

 


 



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