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University Recordings
Creating opportunities for students with respect to the realities of the commercial music industry is a high priority for Dr. White.
He produced 11 big band albums featuring students with top performers in jazz as guest artists: 6 at MU with the Concert Jazz Band, the flagship ensemble of the program; 5 with the NSU Jazz Ensemble. For each of these programs, producing albums was a new and exciting opportunity for these students.
Each of these CDs feature students as composers, arrangers, and performers alongside industry mavens.
These recordings are critically acclaimed nationally; in fact, one of the recordings at NSU received a Blue Chip Award from Jazz Education Journal, signifying it as one of the top college band CDs of that year.
Flying Colors (2016)
MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Randy Brecker, trumpet; Mike Mainieri, vibes; MU Jazz Studies
Original Compositions: Sweet Baby Sam and Megan’s Dance, and an arrangement of a composition by Mike Mainieri
Open Window (2014)
MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Sean Jones, trumpet; Jimmy Greene, tenor saxophone; MU Jazz Studies
Original Composition: Great Plains and an arrangement of a composition by John Clayton
HOME: The Columbia, MO Sessions, Vol. 1 (2013) MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Byron Stripling, trumpet; Bob Sheppard, saxophone; MU Jazz Studies
Original Compositions: Bump and Grind and Sabor a Mi, and arrangements of compositions by Peter Erskine, James
Carter, and Joe Locke
Hidden Agenda (2012)
MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Robin Eubanks, trombone; MU Jazz Studies/Mizzou New Music Initiative
Original Composition: Portrait of Art Blakey, and nine arrangements of compositions by George Gershwin, Buddy
Johnson, Lynne Arriale, Robin Eubanks, Bob Sheppard, Andy Narell, Scott Wendholt, and Dewey Redman
Tunnel Vision: A Collection of New Music (2011) MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Bobby Watson, saxophone; Mike Metheny; flugelhorn; MU Jazz Studies/Mizzou New Music Initiative
Original Compositions: Tunnel Vision and Elegy for Debbie, and three arrangements of compositions by Bobby
Watson, Mike Metheny, and Paul Hanson
Vertigo: The Music of Mike Mainieri (2010)
MU Concert Jazz Band
Featuring: Mike Mainieri, vibes (producer/director/performer), MU Jazz Studies
Arrangements of Compositions by Mike Mainieri: Beirut, Vertigo, R Is For Riddle, Tee Bag, Fly Away, and Plus One
Portrait (2009)
NSU Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Russell Malone, guitar; NSU Jazz Studies
Arrangements of Compositions (eight) by Bob Mintzer, Mulgrew Miller, Eric Person, Peter Erskine, and Russell Malone;
and one original composition, Portrait of Art Blakey
Global Citizen: The Music of Robin Eubanks (2008)
NSU Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Robin Eubanks, trombone; NSU Jazz Studies
Arrangements: Midtown, Shorter Bu, Global Citizen, X-Base, Red, Black, and Green Blues, For What Might Have
Been, and Mojo Jojo
The Point (2007)
NSU Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Henry Johnson, guitar/vocals NSU Jazz Studies
Arrangements: Sambalea, The Point, Third Rail, and It’s About Time, composed by Henry Johnson; Please Send Me
Someone to Love composed by Percy Mayfield
Appointment in Milano (2006)
NSU Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Bobby Watson, saxophone; NSU Jazz Studies
Original Composition: Welcome to Joe’s Place; and three arrangements, The Love We Had Yesterday, Lemoncello, and
Appointment in Milano, composed by Bobby Watson
Hour of the Pearl (2005)
NSU Jazz Ensemble
Featuring: Scott Wendholt, trumpet; NSU Jazz Studies
Original Composition: Unsaid; and three arrangements, Hour of the Pearl and Her Allure, both composed by Scott
Wendholt, and Old Souls, composed by Matt Bundy (NSU student)