John Ricci
Director of Jazz Studies, Professor of Saxophone @Jacksonville University
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WORK HISTORY
Director of Jazz Studies, Professor of Saxophone @Jacksonville University
Administrate the needs of the JU Jazz Program Direct Jazz Combos I and taught: Jazz Theory-Fundamentals, Improv I, Improv II, and Advanced Theory and Improvisation, Jazz Piano, Jazz History and Saxophone Applied
EDUCATION
Florida State University
MM
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
BM
SKILLS
ABOUT JOHN RICCI
Jazz saxophonist John Ricci has been performer, jazz composer, jazz educator, clinician, and private instructor in the North Florida area for over ten years. John attended the jazz studies program at the University of Tennessee Knoxville where he was mentored directly by internationally recognized jazz pedagogue and saxophonist Jerry Coker and pianist-composer and Donald Brown. He then attended Florida State University School of Music earning a Masters of Music in Jazz Studies under a teaching assistantship. In that time he performed with artists like Marcus Printup and at Preservation Hall in New Orleans. He has received many awards including the 1995 Combo Division of Down Beat Collegiate Music Competition. John has performed with internationally known recording artists and in numerous clubs and festivals including Chijazz Festival in Singapore, Jacksonville Jazz Festival, Savannah Jazz Festival, as a guest artist with pianist/composer Donald Brown in the Knoxville Jazz Festival, and recently performed with his quartet to headline the Inaugural Jacksonville jazz Series. John’s CD Holding Time is a debut release of some of his own very inspired compositions and arrangements and includes some of the finest musicians in the southeast. And in January 2009, John was judged the winner of the jazz song category of the 8th Annual Independent Music Awards with his composition “Mode Time”. John has taught at the University of North Florida, and is now Director of Jazz Studies at Jacksonville University in Jacksonville, FL. He performs regularly for festivals and jazz club bookings with his quartet.Website:
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