The award-winning Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra is one of this region's vital performing ensembles. Together now for 16 years, The SGJO plays the music of its creator Gwinnell, as well as arrangements of other band members and composers of note. The SGJO features some of the best jazz musicians, many bandleaders in their own rights. The SGJO has played internationally with Dave Liebman, at the Jazz Educator's Conference. They also closed down the 2009 Detroit Jazz Festival with a 5 minute standing ovation with a joint performance with jazz bassist and bandleader, John Clayton. The SGJO premiered Clayton's 45 minute work, "T.H.E. Detroit", commissioned for the Detroit Jazz Festival. It's 2010 recording, "Brush Fire" (WSG Records) was the recipient of best jazz recording and best modern jazz group from the Detroit Music Awards. The SGJO plays monthly at Cliff Bells Jazz Club, and occasionally branches out to festivals and other clubs.
Detroit Music Factory recording artist, Scott Gwinnell is a pianist/composer/arranger/educator from Detroit. He has performed/ recorded, and/or toured with: Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Williams, Roberta Flack, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Jimmy Heath, John Clayton, Marcus Belgrave, Delfayo Marsalis, Steve Turre, and Jon Hendricks, for whom Scott was music director for three years. He has played on over 20 recordings and has 4 records to his own name (Basement Vibes, Scott Gwinnell Trio, Brush Fire, and the newly released Cass Corridor Story). Gwinnell’s trio was the Friday evening house-band at the historic London Chop House in Detroit.
As an 13 time award-winning BMI composer, Gwinnell has written over 400 compositions and arrangements, from solo piano to symphony orchestra. As an educator, Gwinnell has taught music full and part time at U of Toledo, Bowling Green S U, Wayne County CC, and Oakland University, where he presently teaches jazz piano and directs the vocal jazz ensemble. He is also the director of Vocal Jazz Education for Music Hall. Gwinnell is the creator and director of the Metro-Detroit Jazz Workshop, Detroit's largest private summer jazz workshop.
The SGJO and Gwinnell put education as a top priority. In their monthly gigs, they often feature stand-out high school jazz programs in an effort to inspire their young musicians with professionally played big band music. The SGJO welcomes, this month, opening group, T.J. Wolgram and the University-Liggett Big Band and Combo.
The Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFtquShIJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV119O5it0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBuPxswPmrg
Located in Grosse Pointe Woods, a short drive from the bustle of downtown Detroit, University Liggett School is a nationally recognized, experiential learning-based private school for children from prekindergarten (age 3) through 12th grade. Throughout their education, Liggett students have myriad opportunities to sing and to participate in instrumental music. At the Upper School level, any student may elect to enroll in band, through which they are exposed to a diverse curriculum of classical, jazz, and popular music units, manifested in solo performances, chamber ensembles, and the Liggett Jazz Band. More information can be found at http://www.uls.org/Page/Academics/Creative-and-Performing-Arts
The award-winning Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra is one of this region's vital performing ensembles. Together now for 16 years, The SGJO plays the music of its creator Gwinnell, as well as arrangements of other band members and composers of note. The SGJO features some of the best jazz musicians, many bandleaders in their own rights. The SGJO has played internationally with Dave Liebman, at the Jazz Educator's Conference. They also closed down the 2009 Detroit Jazz Festival with a 5 minute standing ovation with a joint performance with jazz bassist and bandleader, John Clayton. The SGJO premiered Clayton's 45 minute work, "T.H.E. Detroit", commissioned for the Detroit Jazz Festival. It's 2010 recording, "Brush Fire" (WSG Records) was the recipient of best jazz recording and best modern jazz group from the Detroit Music Awards. The SGJO plays monthly at Cliff Bells Jazz Club, and occasionally branches out to festivals and other clubs.
Detroit Music Factory recording artist, Scott Gwinnell is a pianist/composer/arranger/educator from Detroit. He has performed/ recorded, and/or toured with: Aretha Franklin, Vanessa Williams, Roberta Flack, Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, Jimmy Heath, John Clayton, Marcus Belgrave, Delfayo Marsalis, Steve Turre, and Jon Hendricks, for whom Scott was music director for three years. He has played on over 20 recordings and has 4 records to his own name (Basement Vibes, Scott Gwinnell Trio, Brush Fire, and the newly released Cass Corridor Story). Gwinnell’s trio was the Friday evening house-band at the historic London Chop House in Detroit.
As an 13 time award-winning BMI composer, Gwinnell has written over 400 compositions and arrangements, from solo piano to symphony orchestra. As an educator, Gwinnell has taught music full and part time at U of Toledo, Bowling Green S U, Wayne County CC, and Oakland University, where he presently teaches jazz piano and directs the vocal jazz ensemble. He is also the director of Vocal Jazz Education for Music Hall. Gwinnell is the creator and director of the Metro-Detroit Jazz Workshop, Detroit's largest private summer jazz workshop.
The SGJO and Gwinnell put education as a top priority. In their monthly gigs, they often feature stand-out high school jazz programs in an effort to inspire their young musicians with professionally played big band music. The SGJO welcomes, this month, opening group, T.J. Wolgram and the University-Liggett Big Band and Combo.
The Scott Gwinnell Jazz Orchestra:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PFFtquShIJs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV119O5it0U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBuPxswPmrg
Located in Grosse Pointe Woods, a short drive from the bustle of downtown Detroit, University Liggett School is a nationally recognized, experiential learning-based private school for children from prekindergarten (age 3) through 12th grade. Throughout their education, Liggett students have myriad opportunities to sing and to participate in instrumental music. At the Upper School level, any student may elect to enroll in band, through which they are exposed to a diverse curriculum of classical, jazz, and popular music units, manifested in solo performances, chamber ensembles, and the Liggett Jazz Band. More information can be found at http://www.uls.org/Page/Academics/Creative-and-Performing-Arts