Andy McGhee
Andrew "Andy" McGhee (* 3. November 1927 in Wilmington (North Carolina) ; † 12. October 2017 in Marietta (Georgia) ) was a jazz - Tenor saxophonist , author and university lecturer .
McGhee graduated from the New England Conservatory in 1949 and worked briefly with Roy Eldridge and the Boston musician Fat Man Robinson. From 1957 to 1963 he was a member of the Lionel Hampton Band, with whom he toured the United States, Europe and the Far East. His composition "McGhee" was recorded by Hampton on the album The Many Sides of Lionel Hampton . Then McGhee worked from 1963 to 1966 with Woody Herman , on whose album Woody's Winners (1965) he can be heard. He then became a lecturer at Berklee College of Music . McGhee's students include a. Bill Pierce , Javon Jackson , Michael Hashim , Donald Harrison , Antonio Hart , Sam Newsome , Richie Cole , Greg Osby , Ralph Moore , Carlo Schöb and Giorgio Visibelli . In addition to teaching, he wrote several textbooks such as Improvisation for Saxophone: The Scale / Mode Approach and Modal Strategies for Saxophone .
Publications
- Improvisation for Saxophone: The Scale / Mode Approach . Berklee Press Publications, 1986. ISBN 0-7935-5426-8
- Improvisation for Flute: The Scale / Mode Approach . Berklee Press 1986. ISBN 1-4234-6740-X
Web links
- Literature by and about Andy McGhee in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andy McGhee, 89, big band saxophonist who taught at Berklee . Boston Globe, October 21, 2017.
- ^ Barry Kernfeld, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz . St. Martin's Press; New York City, 1988.
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| SURNAME | McGhee, Andy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | McGhee, Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American jazz musician and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 3, 1927 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilmington, North Carolina |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 2017 |
| Place of death | Marietta (Georgia) |