Doug Stone

Doug StoneDoug Stone’s career has involved work as a touring musician, primarily with jazz trumpet legend Maynard Ferguson and his band, the Big Bop Nouveau, as well as with the “world-jazz” group Panoramic, and with a number of ensembles from Chicago, Illinois. His time on the road has taken him to virtually every corner of the United States as well as Asia, Europe, the Caribbean, and Canada. As a member of groups at Northern Illinois University Stone had the opportunity to perform with Frank Foster, Benny Golson, Frank Wes, Jimmy Heath, Rufus Reid, Larry Ridley, and Carl Allen. As a member of the Birch Creek Academy Band he has performed with jazz luminaries Dennis Mackrel, Harold Jones, Derrick Gardener, Tonya Darby, Clay Jenkins, and Reggie Thomas. He spent six years working full-time as a freelance saxophonist and woodwind player, teacher, composer, and arranger in the rich musical environment of Chicago.

Mr. Stone can be heard on recordings from the Sam Craine Quartet, the Dave Hoffman Sextet, the NIU Jazz Ensemble and Jazztet, the Jazz Arranging Syndicate, Scantily Clad, Birch Creek Academy Big Band, the Ed Breazeale Group, the Ji Young Lee Quartet, the Stuart Mindeman Group, the Ian Torres Big Band, the John Burnett Orchestra, Panoramic, Quintopus, the Rick Holland Little Big Band, the Rich Thompson Quartet and Trio, and the Westview Project. Stone has three recordings to his credit as a co-bandleader: Stone/Ziemba Duo “In The Zone”, Nick Fryer/Doug Stone “Quartet”, and The Stone/Bratt Big Band “SBBB”.

Stone is also a published arranger and composer (Kendor Music). His compositions and arrangements have been performed by professional, university, and high school level jazz ensembles throughout the United States.

In 2009 Mr. Stone moved to Rochester, New York to pursue a double master’s degree in jazz performance and music education at the Eastman School of Music. He currently lives and performs in Rochester, NY with the Dave Rivello Ensemble, the Westview Project, the Gap Mangione Big Band, Quintopus, the John Nyerges Duo and Quartet, Jeff Campbell, Rich Thompson, and other talented local jazz artists.

Mr. Stone is the director of jazz ensembles at the Rochester School of the Arts (SOTA) in Rochester, New York. He directs the Jazz Ensemble, the Jazz Band, the Middle School Jazz Band, and several chamber jazz groups. He also serves as chair of the jazz department at the Eastman Community Music School (ECMS). Along with his administrative duties for ECMS, Mr. Stone teaches private saxophone lessons, Jazz Theory II, saxophone ensembles, and the Latin Jazz Ensemble.

In the summers Mr. Stone teaches at the Eastman Summer Jazz Studies Program, serves as co-director of the Eastman at Keuka College Jazz Camp, and serves as assistant to the director at the Birch Creek Jazz Camp.

Mr. Stone has held teaching positions at The State University of New York at Brockport, the Northern Illinois University Community School of the Arts in DeKalb, IL, and he worked as private saxophone, jazz, and small group instructor at St. Charles North High School in St. Charles, IL. He has taught private woodwind and jazz improvisation lessons at numerous high schools and middle schools throughout northern Illinois.

www.dougstonejazz.com

You can purchase Mr. Stone’s recordings at:

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/stoneziembaduo[cdbaby.com]

http://www.cdbaby.com/cd/fryerstone[cdbaby.com]

 


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