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Recordings...

CLASSIC SAXOPHONE
Liscio Recordings 1001 (1988)


Brillance/Gotkovsky • Elegy for a Hollow Man/Lewis • Concerto in C Minor/ Marcello • Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5/Villa-Lobos • Ballade/Martin • Syrinx/Debussy • Siciliano/ J.S. Bach • Fast Music/ Kechley

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Listen to Final from Brillance by Ida Gotkovsky

CLASSIC SAXOPHONE, VOL. 2: MUSICA DA CAMERA
Liscio Recordings 09193 (1992)


In the Dragon’s Garden/Kechley • Sonata I/Telemann • Oboe Quartet (K.370)/Mozart • Saxsounds III/Galante • Sicilienne/Fauré • Faces of the Blues/Baker

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Listen to Allegro from Oboe Quartet by W.A. Mozart

IMAGES (THE RYOANJI DUO)
Liscio Recordings 05032


Driveline/Kechley • Face of the Moon/Shrude • Introducción Danza y Contemplativo/Garcia de Léon • Barcarolle/ Ruszczynski • In the Dragon’s Garden/Kechley • Images of China/Luo

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Featured with other artists...

WINTER BRANCHES Liscio Recordings 97982 Contains Music for Saxophones as well as other instrumental works by David Kechley	IN THE DRAGON'S GARDEN Liscio Recordings 08022 Contains In the Dragon’s Garden & Driveline as well as saxophone quartet works by David Kechley
CHASERS (Movie soundtrack) Contains Right on My Way Home by Bob Dorough as well as other compositions by various artists.

Featured with UNCW Jazz...

SUMMATION Features the UNCW Big Band, Combo, and Jazz Faculty Combo	TRAVELIN' LIGHT Features the UNCW Big Band playing music performed during their European tour in 1997 Listen to Repetition
ON THE EDGE Features the UNCW Big Band with the UNCW Jazz Faculty as soloists	The Cape Fear Jazz Orchestra Recorded live on June 30, 2005 during the UNCW Summer Jazz Workshop Listen to Night Owl Suite, Mvt. 1

Publications and features...

Saxophone Journal Volume 17, No. 4 Feature front cover interview	Saxophone Journal Volume 20, No. 2 Saxophone vibrato master class CD
Jazz Player Volume 1, No. 5 Jazz play-along CD	Jazz Player Volume 4, No. 2 Jazz transcriptions master class CD

Articles...

Over 100 articles and reviews in such journals as The Saxophone Symposium, The Saxophone Journal, Jazz Player, The National Association of College Wind & Percussion Instructors Journal, and the North Carolina Music Educator.  I currently write saxophone CD reviews that appear in each issue of The Saxophone Journal.

“Charlie Parker”, article for reference work, Popular Musicians (1999).

Papers Presented...

"Jazz by Degrees: Where to Begin?"  Key note address at Jazz Fest by the Sea '95, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, 1995.

"An Approach to Interpreting Music on the Saxophone."  Presented at the Boston Saxophone Workshop & Contemporary Woodwind Seminar, Boston, MA, 1991.

"The Construction and Validation of an Objective Evaluation Instrument for Jazz Ensemble Saxophone Auditions."  Presented at the 18th Annual International Association of jazz Educators Conference, Washington, DC, 1991.

Music Composed or Arranged...

Original Jazz Combo Compositions (published by Giorno Music, BMI)
Mama's Boy, Baker's Dozen, Summation, Mama See Papa Do,
Hob-Knobbin', Jessie's Crown, Gone, Shorty, Purple's Passion, Kenzie’s Dilemma, Something New, Eye's Delight, and Rue’s Blues.

Big Band Arrangements
Witchcraft by Cy Coleman, arranged for jazz ensemble, 1982, unpublished.

Repetition by Neal Hefti, adapted and arranged for jazz ensemble, 1997, unpublished.

Manteca by Gillespie/Fuller, adapted and arranged for jazz ensemble, 1997, unpublished.

Concert Saxophone
Sonata da camera for violin, Opus V, No. 8 by Arcangelo Corelli, arranged for solo saxophone & piano.  Published by Dorn Publications, 1995.

Rêve d'un soir by Cécile Chaminade, arranged for solo saxophone & piano.  Published by Dorn Publications, 1995.

Oboe Quartet in F (K. 370) by W.A. Mozart, arranged for saxophone quartet.  Published by Southern Music, 1996.

Bachianas Brasileiras No. 5 by Heitor Villa-Lobos, arranged for solo saxophone and saxophone quartet.  Published by G, Schirmer, Inc., 1993.

Sicilienne by Gabriel Fauré, arranged for saxophone and guitar, Giorno Music, 1996.