Clarence Acox,
co-director and
drummer, was voted the 1992 Earshot Jazz Musician of the
Year. He directs the award-winning Garfield High School Jazz
Ensemble, and is among Seattle's busiest drummers. A native of
New Orleans, he graduated from Southern University. His own
sextet has won numerous awards for its CD recordings, Joanna's
Dance and Indigenous Groove. Acox can also be heard as a regular
member of the Floyd Standifer Group. He serves annually as a
faculty artist for the renowned Bud Shank/Centrum Jazz Workshop.
In 2002
Clarence received national Educator of the Year Award from Down
Beat magazine.
Michael
Brockman,
co-director and lead alto saxophonist, has been a faculty member
of the UW School of Music since 1987, instructing in saxophone
performance and jazz composition and arranging. He studied
saxophone and composition at the New England Conservatory, the
Berklee College of Music and the Musikhochschule in Cologne. He
has recorded with groups in Washington D.C. and Boston, and with
the Clarence Acox Sextet. An Evening of Duke Ellington at
the UW, coordinated and directed by Brockman, was voted the 1992
Earshot Jazz Concert of the Year. For more information about
Michael Brockman, including photos and links to magazine
articles and interviews, go to
http://faculty.washington.edu/brockman/. |
