Wayne Naus

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Wayne Naus (born November 20, 1947 in Berwick , Pennsylvania ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet , flugelhorn , arrangement ) and university teacher.

Live and act

As a teenager, Naus took trumpet lessons from his father; in high school he played in a marching band . After military service in the Navy, where he played as a musician in a military band at the Navy School of Music in Norfolk, Virginia in 1966, he began his career in the early 1970s in the bands of Buddy Rich ( Stick It! ), Maynard Ferguson (1973) and Lionel Hampton . He also studied at Berklee College of Music until 1976 . With his own big band formation, he presented the album Born on the Road in 1985 . In 1993 he recorded the album Chase the Fire with his own Latin jazz octet Heart & Fire and successfully toured Russia with this ensemble. He is an associate professor at Berklee College , where he has headed the Berklee Tower Of Power Ensemble since 2000 . He is the author of the harmony work Beyond Functional Harmony (Advance Music).

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Individual evidence

  1. Berklee Tower of Power