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Alabama Music Office.com goes to the 9th annual Jazz Education Network Conference in Dallas,Texas to attend a performance by Keith Karns Big Band with Rich Perry. JEN 2018 was centered around the theme borrowed from Charlie Parker's 1945 composition, "Now's the Time!"

Keith Karns is a trumpet player, arranger, and bandleader based in Portland Oregon. During his time at the University of North Texas, Keith was a trumpet soloist and arranger for the Grammy nominated One O'Clock Lab Band. Since then, Keith has had the opportunity to work with some of the nation's leading voices in jazz including Rich Perry, Greta Matassa, Victor Barranco (U.S. Army Blues), Lauren Sevian (Mingus Big Band), and Stefon Harris.

Keith's 18 piece big band has toured nationally and has recorded two CDs of Keith's original compositions and arrangements. Keith has been recognized as a composer and arranger by the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers (ASCAP), Downbeat Magazine, and the Jazz Education Network (JEN). Keith's most recent big band recording was a collaboration with New York City saxophonist Rich Perry, and was released on Summit Records in 2017 to rave reviews.

Keith is the Director of Jazz Studies at Western Oregon University where he teaches courses in jazz, as well as courses in applied trumpet, brass pedagogy, and chamber music. He is also the Artistic Coordinator for the Jazz Program at the Fairbanks Summer Arts Festival.

Keith holds degrees from the University of Wisconsin Eau Claire, Indiana University, and the University of North Texas. His teachers include David Baker, Bill Adam, John Murphy, Robert Baca, John Harbaugh, Jay Saunders, and Rich DeRosa. Keith is a Torpedo Bags performing artist and uses Torpedo Bags to transport and protect all of his trumpets.
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“Karns is an outstanding trumpeter, but it’s his composing and arranging that sets him apart” –so says Tom Surowicz of the Minneapolis Star Tribune. For the past eight years Keith Karns has been exploring the boundaries of big band jazz. His twenty piece, Texas-based group has toured nationally, proclaiming a brand of jazz that is at once fresh, while still harkening back to the big band traditions of Basie, Thad Jones, and Bob Brookmeyer.

Keith’s band is made up of some of the best young talent in the country. Most are alumni from the prestigious UNT One O’Clock Lab Band. The fire and energy these young men and women bring to the music is tempered only by their skill and professionalism.

The band released its first recording Thought and Memory, in 2012. Last year, they were fortunate enough to get in the studio with acclaimed tenor saxophonist Rich Perry. They recorded five tenor saxophone concertos Keith wrote for Rich. This record, An Eye on the Future: Featuring Rich Perry will be released in January of 2017 on the Summit Jazz label.

The Keith Karns Big Band can be heard regularly at Scat Jazz Lounge in Fort Worth, Texas.



video by Jerry W. Henry