The Hill Country Jazz Festival organized by the Department of
Jazz Studies at Texas State University
is pleased to announce that the festival has been renamed to the
Butch Miles Jazz Festival effective with the 2025 Festival,
scheduled for February 7th & 8th.
Butch Miles was on the Texas State
Jazz Faculty from August 2007 until
his retirement in 2021.
SAN
MARCOS, Texas, Sept. 28,
2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The Hill Country Jazz
Festival organized by the Department of Jazz Studies at
Texas State University is pleased to
announce that the festival has been renamed to the Butch Miles Jazz
Festival effective with the 2025 Festival, scheduled for
February 7th & 8th.
"Butch was an important part of the
Texas State jazz faculty, not only as a
world-class drummer but as a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher.
His decades of working with jazz greats including Count Basie,
Mel Torme, Dave Brubeck, and many others brought a level of
experience that was unequalled..."
Butch Miles was on the Texas
State Jazz Faculty from August 2007
until his retirement in 2021.
"Butch was an important part of the Texas
State jazz faculty, not only as a world-class drummer but as
a dedicated and enthusiastic teacher. His decades of working with
jazz greats including Count Basie, Mel
Torme, Dave Brubeck, and many
others brought a level of experience that was unequalled.
Texas State benefited greatly from his
playing, his teaching, and his music industry connections, which
helped bring many major artists to campus. He was a great musician
and a beautiful human".
- Utah Hamrick
Director of Jazz Studies
Texas State University
To celebrate the launch of the Butch Miles Jazz Festival we will
have three generations of drummers from The Count Basie
Orchestra:
Harold Jones rose to prominence
as the drummer with the Count Basie Orchestra from 1967-1972,
making over 15 albums with the group, including the iconic Basie
Straight Ahead. After Basie he toured with Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah
Vaughan, and Natalie Cole.
Jones has recorded with a long list of musicians, ranging from
Tony Bennett to Eddie Harris, to Amy
Grant.
Gregg Field, the 8-time Grammy
and Emmy recipient, and former Count Basie drummer will be a
featured guest artist at the Festival. Like Butch, Gregg has worked
with many jazz figures throughout his drumming career including
Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Pat
Metheny, Michael Buble,
Herbie Hancock, Arturo Sandoval plus many more. Gregg is
currently the Chairman of the USC/Thornton School of Music Board of Councilors
and is a member of the University of
Miami/Frost School of Music Board.
Robert Boone Jr. has been the
drummer for the Count Basie Orchestra for seven years, joining soon
after finishing his Master's degree at Florida
State University. He has worked with jazz greats
Marcus Roberts, Dee Dee Bridgewater, and Veronica Swift, among others. He is currently on
faculty at Georgia State
University.
Butch Miles Jazz Festival : Jazz Studies : Texas State University (txst.edu)
More details to be published.
Media Contact
Thomas E Bridge, Bridge Media Services, 1 (725) 263-6284,
tb@bridge-media-services.com,
https://www.bridge-media-services.com/
Utah Hamrick, Texas State
University, 1 512.245.2651, utah.hamrick@txstate.edu,
https://www.txst.edu/jazzstudies.html
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