Saxophone with Joshua A.

I graduated from Tennessee  State University with a Bachelors of Music, concentration music education. I receive my Masters of Education and Education Specialist degree from Lincoln Memorial University. I have spent the past 10 years teaching instrumental and vocal music in middle and elementary public school. Alongside music education, I studied saxophone under professional saxophonist,  Jimmy Bowland. I  have had the opportunity to travel aboard, performing with the "Nashville Aces" at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Umbria, Italy in 2007 and even meet the great Sonny Rollins. From 2008 to 2010 I performed saxophone within the stage band of "Alvin Moore Entertainment" stage production company and  which produced recorded stage play, "A Mother's Prayer" featuring Johnny Gill, Robin Givens, Shirley Murdock and Jermaine Crawford​​​​​​ which has aired  numerous times on B.E.T. as well as stages in and around the southeast. From 2013 to 2016 I have been performed within the funk band,  "Function with a C", playing various weddings, corporate gathering and other social events. Currently I am band leader and lead Saxophonist within the instrumental group "Sacred Spaces". I find music not only something to be played and enjoyed, but a means to open my "hearing" to people and places. My desire is that all students i teach, continue to learn and be inspired by music.