(Level IV) Jazz Nonet. More Issues is a 16th-note funk of the driving kind, not the swinging kind. It’s a lot of fun for the rhythm section. Tenor saxophone is the featured soloist. The melody is in tenor and guitar; the guitarist can use a slightly overdriven rock sound if he/she blends with the ensemble. A series of rhythm breaks leads to the full solo. Backgrounds are in long tones and closely scored. The soloist must understand modes of the melodic minor scale. Trumpet range is only high in the closing phrases of the melody. (trumpet, trombone; baritone, tenor, and alto saxes; guitar, piano, bass, drums)
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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.
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