Recording credits include Blue Light, Red Light, When My Heart Finds Christmas, and The New York Big Band Concert (Video). While attending UNT, he was a member of the One O'Clock Lab Band and directed the Three O'Clock Lab Band.įrom 1990 to 1994, he toured internationally as a member of the Harry Connick, Jr. He holds the Doctor of Musical Arts in Saxophone Performance and Literature degree from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the of Bachelor of Music (Jazz Studies) and Master of Music (Saxophone Performance) from the University of North Texas. Prior to this position, he was the Director of Jazz Studies at Northeastern State University in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Originally from North Carolina, Will Campbell is the Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Saxophone at UNC Charlotte. A thrill to listen." Gary Walker – WBGO, New York So refreshing to hear in a time of wandering around the creative process. Rather, we hear him reaching back, standing straight up and moving the musical ball up the field. So much so you'd think he be more stooped over. Chad Eby is one of those musicians who carries all the decades of jazz along as he creates. "I once heard a master musician say 'if you want to genuinely create, know all the decades'. He is in the top echelon of the worlds finest musicians." - Bill Charlap "Chad Eby, a consummate artist, is a superb saxophonist and a highly skilled arranger. Here is where we find Chad Eby." - Branford Marsalis ".there is a movement in jazz that embraces a once taken-for-granted model: modernity thru authenticity. He is a D'Addario Woodwinds Performing Artist. He joined Jazz at Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington program as a clinician in 2012. All-Star Big Band, and many collegiate jazz ensembles. Highly in demand as an arranger (with over 75 works to his credit), his commissioned works have been performed or recorded by Bill Charlap with Kurt Elling, Wynton Marsalis with Willie Nelson and Norah Jones, the Columbus Jazz Orchestra, the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, the L.A. He is active as a composer, and received the Ohio Arts Council and North Carolina Arts Council awards for jazz composition in 20, respectively. A Newhall, Iowa native, he has earned widespread critical acclaim as "a consummate improviser" (Jazz Times), "has tremendous poise and natural melodic sense" (Ottawa Sun), and his "tone is boundless, blues-inflected, and wholly satisfying" (). Chad released his third studio album, "New Business", in December 2012, and his 2010 album "Broken Shadows" (Cellar Live) featured Steve Haines and Jason Marsalis, with guest appearances by Doug Wamble and Branford Marsalis. Saxophonist and composer Chad Eby teaches applied jazz saxophone, Jazz Ensemble I, and Jazz History in the Miles Davis Jazz Studies Program at UNCG.
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