Jim Knapp
American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator
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- Masters Jazz Studies New England Conservatory of Music
- Doctorate Jazz Studies Manhattan School of Music
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Donald Knapp, Jr. was an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. He taught at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle for 45 years. Biography Jim Knapp was born on July 28, 1939, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. He studied piano at age six and took up trumpet at age twelve. He studied music composition at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with Kenneth Gaburo and received a Bachelor of Music from the University of Illinois in 1962. Drafted into the US Army, he was stationed in Stuttgart, Germany from 1962 to 1964. He returned to the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, studied composition with Salvatore Martirano and composed for the college jazz band led by violist John Garvey. In 1968, Knapp's rotary-valve flugelhorn solos and composition "Medley" were noted at the Collegiate Jazz Festival . In 1969, Knapp was awarded "Best Composer" by the CJF. He completed his Master of Music in Composition in 1969.
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