Archive for the ‘Artists’ Category

Jake Lampe has been performing professionally since 1995. He has performed with artists including Shirley Horn, Diane Reeves, Herbie Hancock, New York Voices, and Jerry Goldsmith. He recently toured the US and Europe with two-time Grammy winner Ruben Ramos. Jake also received a Grammy nomination for the 2002 release “On The Prowl” by Ruben Ramos. Locally he can be found performing with groups including John Mills Times Ten, Beto and the Fairlanes, Monster Big Band, The Pictures, The Atlantics, Big Time, and many others.

Jake Lampe

Brannen Temple is regarded as one of the finest players on the instrument working today. In addition to leading his own award-winning groups he has worked with a diversity of name artists including Sheena Easton, Kevin Paige, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, and many others.

Brannen Temple

John Mills is one of central Texas’ most in-demand saxophonists, arrangers, and composers, covering a complete spectrum of musical styles — jazz, R&B, salsa, classical, rock ‘n roll, world music, country, funk, alternative, blues, folk, gospel, and more — in concert and in the recording studio. During his diverse professional career he has performed, arranged, and composed on a vast number of CD’s, film/TV soundtracks, and jingles.

He is an also an active educator, clinician and adjudicator. While Director of Jazz Studies at Southwest Texas State University, his students won three Downbeat Magazine awards and he designed a bachelor’s of Music degree in Jazz Studies which is now fully approved by the Texas governing board and enjoying success. Some of his former students have toured with the jazz orchestras of Ray Charles, Harry Connick Jr., and Maynard Ferguson.

John Mills’ new CD on 482 Records, Courage “The Way Out Is Via the Door,” teams him with legendary jazz bassist Steve Swallow and revered poet Robert Creeley. This unique project showcases his compositions as well as his improvisations on saxophones, flute, bass clarinet, and textural keyboards.