UNC Jazz Press

Level IV (Jazz Nonet) Celebrity Intervention has a Weather Report-like shuffle/swing feel.  The modes shift around mediant and submediant relationships, and the chords are seldom in root position.  The soprano saxophonist is the featured soloist.  There are touches of hip-hop and ‘smooth’ jazz, and a brief section of conventional swing feel. (trumpet, trombone; baritone, tenor, and soprano saxes; guitar, piano, bass, drums)

View all charts by Kevin Brunkhorst

After seeing the Beatles lip-sync Hey Jude on The Ed Sullivan Show, KEVIN BRUNKHORST begged enough to get his first guitar for Christmas at age 9. Later, he took clarinet lessons and played in the school concert band. After high school, he attended the Uiversity of North Texas where he studied jazz guitar with Jack Petersen and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition in 1987. He then worked for eight years in the music industry. In 2001, went back to the University of North Texas. He spent two years in the famous One O'Clock Lab Band which recorded two of his charts. He also directed the L-5 Electric Guitar Ensemble. Upon earning a Master of Music in Jazz Studies in 2004 from UNT, Kevin was hired by St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia where he teaches jazz guitar, arranging, composition and music technology as well as directing two guitar ensembles.