A Friendly Exchange (Level IV) Scored for alto and tenor saxophones, trombone, guitar, piano, bass, and drums, “A Friendly Exchange” draws from bebop and funk influences but with harmonic and formal twists. The guitar is scored as a single-line instrument that should perform at a volume equal to the role of a horn-player in the four voices that comprise the presentation of the tune. Everyone may receive solo space at some point in the chart. The work was featured as part of an exchange program between Virginia Commonwealth University (Richmond, VA) and the University of KwaZulu-Natal (Durban, South Africa) and was performed by the VCU Africa Combo in March 2014 in Durban.

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ANTONIO J. GARCIA has accepted the post of Director of Jazz Studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond effective, August 2001. A trombonist, bass trombonist or pianist with such artists as Ella Fitzgerald, George Shearing, Mel Torme, Doc Severinsen, Louis Bellson and Phil Collins as well as a composer/arranger and author, Garica serves as Editor of the International Association of Jazz Educators' Jazz Educators' Journal and is past-president of IAJE-Illinois. He is co-editor and contributing author of Teaching Jazz: A course of Study (published by MENC) and a member of the board of The Midwest Clinic. After teaching the summer academic quarter at Northwestern University, Mr. Garcia will leave his current post of Associate Professor of Music at NU. At Northwestern University he directed the combo program, taught jazz and integrated arts, and for four years directed the vocal jazz ensemble. Prior to NU he served as the Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Northern Illinois University. He was selected by students and faculty at NIU as the receipient of a 1992 "Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching" Award and nominated as its candidate for the 1992 CASE "U.S. Professor of the Year (one of 434 nationwide).