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Bill Stevens

Bill Stevens - Performer, Composer, Arranger, Educator EDUCATION: September 1992 to May 1994 Master of Arts - Education Administration New York University, New York City School Administration and Supervision School District Administration August 1979 to December 1980 Master of Music - Jazz Pedagogy University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida August 1974 to May 1978 Bachelor of Music - Music Education State University of New York at Fredonia, N.Y.

EDUCATOR:

2016

Coordination and Director - Student Jazz Programing Brooklyn Conservatory of Music Lucy Moses School at Lincoln Center New York Jazz Workshop

July 2005 to Retired February 2016

Assistant Principal Administration/Organization Supervisor of Performing Arts Studios Director of Jazz Studies Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, New York City

November 2000 to June 2005

Assistant Principal Administration/Organization F. H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts, New York City 1973 to Present Private Instructor Trumpet - all levels Jazz Improvisation - all instruments Composition and Modern Arranging Techniques

HONORS:

2023 - 2024

Invited to join the Artists Pedagogy Research Group, a Special Interest Group based in Helsinki, Finland and a part of the Society of Artistic Research (SAR) to be meeting/presenting at the annual SAR Conference April 19 - 21, 2023 in Trondheim, Norway and again on April 9 & 10, 2024 at the SAR Forum at Fontys Academy of Art in Tilburg, Netherlands. Over a series of Zoom meetings throughout 2023 and continuing through 2024 we will examine the following:

What are the unique qualities that artists bring to teaching artists, how can artistic research help to explore this and what can we learn by looking across the boundaries that separate fields of higher education in the arts?

The Artist Pedagogy Research group is a Specialist Interest Group of the Society of Artistic Research which sets out to explore these questions. It aims to bring together researchers focused on artists’ pedagogies. We use the term artist in its broadest sense to encompass practitioners from music, dance, theatre, performance, art making (studio arts, the free arts, or fine arts) and more. And we understand pedagogy not in its strictest etymologically derived sense of leading a child but as an overarching term for the theorization of teaching which might include didactics, critical pedagogies, student centred and world centred approaches and more, as well as terms that we are yet to define.

2023

My sound composition, A Light Exists in Spring, was selected by Cities and Memory to be part of the compilation album, The Sounds of the Year 2023.

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Liner Notes

Bill Stevens: Lema Sabachthani

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In 2003 I recorded the album Dedication, my fifth independently released CD, which in the liner notes I detailed a brief musical history. Dedication bridged a 14-year gap between recordings, as well as a documented move from jny: Seattle, WA. to jny: New York City. In 2004 I formed the Bill Stevens Quintet and in 2005 we recorded the CD Full Circle. Full Circle detailed a specific moment in time and musical direction. In the liner notes I stated, “I ...

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Take Five With Bill Stevens

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Meet Bill Stevens:Bill Stevens (trumpet and flugelhorn) received a Bachelor of Music degree in Music Education from Fredonia State University in 1978 and a Masters degree in Jazz Studies from the University of Miami in 1980.

Bill spent the next 10 years playing professionally in Miami, Florida; upstate New York; New York City, San Francisco and Seattle, Washington. He has performed with Billy Eckstine, Earl 'fatha' Hines, Ira Sullivan, Julian Priester, Spyro Gyra and ensembles under ...

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Album Review

Bill Stevens: Dedication

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Dedications (plural) would be a more appropriate title for this collection of ten compositions by trumpeter/composer Bill Stevens honoring some of his most important influences, including trumpeters Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Woody Shaw and Miles Davis, as well as pianists/composer/arrangers Gil Evans, McCoy Tyner, Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Performed by a sextet of less widely known, younger players, much of the music on the date is enjoyable, but taken as a whole the album falls slightly off the mark, ...

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Connections Bill Stevens (Milessmiles Prod.) by Elliott Simon Connections from trumpeter Bill Stevens traverses a musical trajectory moving from chill to hybrid to electric all within a jazz milieu. Thought and planning in addition to clear musicality are apparent in each of three suites and separate ensembles are fittingly chosenPress releases available shortly to meet the needs of each of these diverse compositions. Setting and content are well coordinated in the three-part “Music For Dance”. Progression through the “Eternal” search for a dance/life partner to the ecstasy of the “Love Dance” and the union of “Two as One” are eloquently described

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Primary Instrument

Trumpet

Location

New York City

Credentials/Background

Credentials: August 1974 to May 1978 Bachelor of Music - Music Education State University of New York at Fredonia, N.Y. August 1979 to December 1980 Master of Music - Jazz Pedagogy University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida September 1992 to May 1994 Master of Arts - Education Administration New York University, New York City School Administration and Supervision School District Administration July 2005 to Retired February 2016 Assistant Principal Administration/Organization Supervisor of Performing Arts Studios Director of Jazz Studies Frank Sinatra School of the Arts, New York City

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Chet Baker
trumpet and vocals
Miles Davis
trumpet

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Connections

Milessmiles Productions
2018

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Lema Sabachthani

Milessmiles Productions
2012

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https://on.soundcloud.com/oopHq

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