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Andrew Beals joined legendary
jazz organist, "Brother" Jack
McDuff and the "Heatin' System" in 1986. Beals became the latest
in a long line of Jazz Saxophone greats, including Sonny Stitt, Gene
Ammons, Red Holloway, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Harold Vick, and Rahsaan
Roland
Kirk to work with Jack McDuff's band. It was marked by a busy
performance schedule, which included lengthy tours of North America and
Europe. Andrew
Beals has appeared as a leader of his own band and as a featured soloist
with Jack McDuff, and others, at many renowned Jazz clubs and festivals.
Beals was a semifinalist at the 1993 Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition;
and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious NYU Jazz Orchestra Scholarship
for graduate studies in jazz performance and composition. Andrew
is currently an adjunct professor of Jazz Saxophone and Jazz Improvisation
at Western Connecticut State University(W.C.S.U) and a woodwind instructor
at the Greenwich Music School. He received his Bachelor of Arts Music
degree at Livingston College and Rutgers University, and has a Master
of Arts Music Degree from New York University. His teachers were Paul
Jeffery,
John Stubbelfield, Frank Foster, George Garzone (saxophone), and Jim
McNeely (composition). |
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