Alan Wyatt
The Lee University School of Music will present Alan Wyatt in a faculty recital on Wednesday at 7:30 p.m. in the Dixon Center.
The program includes “Free for All” by Wayne Shorter, “Black Codes” and “For Wee Folks” by Wynton Marsalis, “Gnuble Ooze” by John Gunther, and “Giant Steps (Ahead)” by John Coltrane (re-imagined by Wyatt). Additionally, Mr. Wyatt will perform four original songs.
Mr. Wyatt, an assistant professor of music at Lee, will be playing tenor, soprano, and alto saxophones. He'll be joined by Assistant Professor of Music Dr. Nathan Warner on trumpet, Adjunct Instructor Shawn Perkinson on guitar, Edward Freytag on drum set, Andrew LaPrise on keyboards, Joshua Howard on electric bass, Lacey Thwing on viola, Caleb Hall on trumpet, Joel Land on tenor saxophone, Joey Archer on trombone and Jordan Slone on bass trombone.
A saxophone artist for the Andreas Eastman Winds Corporation, Mr. Wyatt has shared the stage with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Jr., The Temptations, The Four Tops, Tito Puente, Jr., Natalie Cole, Manhatten Transfer, Melissa Manchester, Doc Severinson, Hank Jones, and Clay Aiken among many others. He also toured with the Dorsey Brothers Orchestra, Tommy Dorsey Orchestra, and the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra, and he was a featured soloist on the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra recordings Progressive Jazz 2009 and Fleet Street.
He has served the East and Middle Tennessee School Band and Orchestra Associations as guest clinician for Senior Jazz Clinic. Mr. Wyatt has also served as artist in residence for the Jazz Program at Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
Mr. Wyatt is the area coordinator for Music Business and teaches courses such as Commercial Music Theory, History of Commercial Music and Improvisation. He also coordinates senior projects and internships for the music business program. In addition, he is the director of the Jazz Ensemble and the Pep Band at Lee.
Mr. Wyatt began teaching at Lee as an adjunct in 1990, and after finishing his graduate studies in Jazz, he became a full-time instructor in 1996. He received both his master’s and bachelor’s at the University of Tennessee at Knoxville.
The recital is free of charge and open to the public. For more information, call the School of Music at 614-8240.