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Jimmy Bowland - Sax
Jimmy Bowland, a native of Paducah, KY, now makes his home in Nashville, TN. He
obtained his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Alabama where he
focused on saxophone performance, jazz studies, woodwind doubling and arranging.
While at Alabama, he received many honors including the Wilbur Rowand Prize,
state winner in the MTNA Collegiate Artists competition, Disney's All-American
College Band, and he represented the university in a Costa Rican cultural
exchange program, conducting five days of saxophone master classes and
presenting a recital program at the Centre de Cultural in San Jose. He continued
his studies with a teaching assistantship at Michigan State University, earning
a Master of Music degree in saxophone performance and winning the School of
Music's annual concerto competition. At M.S.U. he was also a member of the
Dean's Advisory Council, was the student forum editor for the national journal
Saxophone Symposium, and was presented with an outstanding soloist award
at the Notre Dame Jazz Festival. Since completing his formal studies, Jimmy has enjoyed a diverse professional
career as performer, educator and clinician in a variety of musical settings. He
has conducted clinics and master classes at a majority of the middle Tennessee
area's dominant high school band programs as well as a clinic at Nashville's
Mars Music where he is a certified Learning Center instructor. He has been an
adjunct faculty member at Olivet College in Olivet, MI and at Nashville's own
Belmont University. He has fronted his own group as guitarist/vocalist in Japan;
toured internationally for the past nine years with Brenda Lee performing on
saxophone, flute, clarinet, guitar and percussion; and made several appearances
with the Nashville Symphony. He has performed for numerous national television
and radio broadcasts, most recently with Delbert McClinton on Austin City
Limits, and is one of the few saxophonists to appear on the Grand Ole Opry
national television and radio broadcasts. He has also performed with the
Temptations, Mary Wilson and the Supremes, the Boxtops, Kenny Rogers and Bob
Hope among others. Jimmy currently divides his time among live performance, touring, teaching
and studio work in the Nashville area. His sax work can be heard on Delbert
McClinton's latest release "Room To Breathe" along with Anthony Gomes' "Unity".
He is also promoting the debut release of the Rigby/Bowland Project, an
instrumental quintet founded in 1999 with guitarist David Rigby. The C.D.
features original compositions and arrangements by David and Jimmy. So far the
self-titled release has enjoyed very favorable press, regional distribution
through Cat's Music Stores and is in regular rotation on WMOT 89.5 FM. In
January of 2002 he began touring with singing sensation Billy Gilman, performing
on saxophone, flute, wind controller and percussion. For more info:
www.rigbybowlandproject.com