Dana Landry

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  Published on: 1/1/2008    Last Visited: 7/5/2008  

  One of those awards went to Dana Landry (MM-94) for solo performance on piano when he was a student at UNC.Landry is now the director of Jazz Studies at UNC, taking the job in 2002.From his time as a student to his present role with the university, Landry has seen some change.
  
  "Any time there are new people in a program, there's bound to be change.I think we're running with tradition, however.We're not forgetting the past," Landry says.If winning awards is still part of that tradition, then Landry has kept it going.In the five years under his guidance, the program has won seven awards, indicating that the program continues to be headed in the right direction.
  
  The biggest change is adding the degrees of bachelor of music in jazz studies and master of music in jazz studies.One would expect a school that U.S. News and World Report named one of the top five jazz programs in the nation in 1997 to already have those degrees, but until recently, it didn't.
  
  When one asks the Associate Director of Jazz Studies Dave Stamps, who has a master's degree in both jazz studies and jazz composition, what makes this program so strong, he doesn't hesitate: "It's the wide variety of things that are offered here, and people are drawn to the history of the program," Stamps says.
  
  Landry, who has a bachelor of music from Berklee College of Music and a master of music from UNC, believes the program's strength also comes from the people involved.From the past faculty to the current faculty, each person has helped shape Jazz Studies into what it is today.In addition, Landry says the students play a major role in the character of the program.
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  They're not only musicians, they're also friends," Landry adds.

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  Immediately following were two days at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro presenting workshops and playing with a big band of Nashville area musicians led by pianist/arranger Dana Landry who heads the Jazz program at MTSU.

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  It features a superb cast of players from around the country, all of them jazz educators: trumpeter Clay Jenkins is an associate professor at Rochester, N.Y.'s prestigious Eastman School of Music, pianist Dana Landry directs the jazz studies program at University at Northern Colorado and drummer Jim White is an assistant professor in Landry's program.
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  It features a superb cast of players from around the country, all of them jazz educators: trumpeter Clay Jenkins is an associate professor at Rochester, N.Y.'s prestigious Eastman School of Music, pianist Dana Landry directs the jazz studies program at University at Northern Colorado and drummer Jim White is an assistant professor in Landry's program.

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  Published on: 3/28/2007    Last Visited: 3/28/2007  

  Former Middle Tennessee State University colleague pianist Dana Landry and drummer Jim White round out the group.
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  Personnel: Don Aliquo: tenor saxophone; Clay Jenkins: trumpet; Dana Landry: piano; Rufus Reid: bass; Jim White: drums.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 12/5/2007  

  The award-winning Jazz Studies program, reared from infancy by Gene Aitken, is currently led by Grammy-nominated jazz composer/pianist Dana Landry.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 3/23/2007  

  Aliquo, who is the director of jazz studies at Middle Tennessee State University, has a new CD out called Jazz Folk that also features a couple of Coloradans, pianist Dana Landry and drummer Jim White.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 7/2/2008  

  An all-Latin affair, it features Grammy-nominated pianist Dana Landry and world-renowned drummer Daniel Messina.
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  Yes, the concert with Dana was a blast.

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  Published on: 10/6/2008    Last Visited: 9/12/2007  

  The orchestra is a professional big band in Greeley formed by pianist Dana Landry, drummer Jim White and conductor/composer David Caffey, all from the faculty of the UNC School of Music.

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  Maria Schneider, composer (Dana Landry)

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  Published on: 4/20/2006    Last Visited: 4/20/2006  

  The UNC Jazz Festival started 35 years ago and has become the largest educational jazz festival in the U.S. "We want to make sure that the students come out of here, hopefully, knowing more than when they came here, and also give them an opportunity to perform," said Dana Landry, Director of Jazz Studies at UNC.
  
  Landry is also conductor of the University's Jazz Lab Band, which was just named the best college big band in the U.S. by Down Beat Magazine, for the second year in a row."The students built on that," Landry said."I feel that it's growing, getting better, and it's a sign that we're moving in the right direction."
  
  Landry, a pianist, also received some individual recognition recently.In 2005 he was nominated for a Grammy for his CD 'Journey Home.'

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