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University of Northern Iowa

Hilliard Greene

Born: February 26, 1958

Hilliard Greene has been studying music for more than 30 years and has been playing professionally over twenty. His emphasis is in classical, jazz, rock, blues, R&B, Tango as well as the music of other continents and US regions, and solo performances. Greene studied at the University of Northern Iowa and at Berklee College of Music in Boston and has been teaching private students and classes for over 25 years. He is currently a faculty member at the Bass Collective in New York City. He continues to teach privately and to do workshops and master classes in upright and electric bass for both children and adults

UNI Jazz Band: The Hard Way

By University of Northern Iowa

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: New Breed; Life Blood; Ballad to Max; Tilian; Roll ‘Em; It Is Written; Great Big Ball with a Map Wrapped Around It; Into to The Hard Way; The Hard Way; Voyage.

This Is the Band

By University of Northern Iowa

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2013
Track listing: Morning Sprite; Rings of Jupiter; Shoot the Dog; The Loop; Antonio’s Big Day; . . . And So But Anyway; 3 2 Get Ready; (Alternate Title); Confession.

UNI Jazz Band One: This Is the Band

by Jack Bowers
December 1, 2013

UNI is the University of Northern Iowa, which has had a respected Jazz Studies program for more than three decades, first under director Robert Washut and more recently under Chris Merz whose charges have recorded and released their tenth CD since Merz assumed the reins in 2002 (the band recorded eleven albums under Washut's guidance). Six ...

UNI Jazz Band: The Hard Way

by Jack Bowers
July 17, 2013

UNI stands for the University of Northern Iowa whose tradition of producing first-rate big-band recordings spans more than two decades, first under director Bob Washut and more recently under his successor, Chris Merz (The Hard Way is the twentieth album by the university's Jazz Band One in my library). This is a “semi-live" date on which ...

The Unlikely Event

By University of Northern Iowa

Label: Sea Breeze Vista
Released: 2005
Track listing: Rockin' in Rhythm; The Unlikely Event; Someday My Prince Will Come; Cubaneando; Balkanicus; Messa-Stomp; Bossa Antigua; Bulgaria; Tones for Joan's Bones (73:36).

The University of Northern Iowa Jazz Band One: The Unlikely Event

by Jack Bowers
February 7, 2005

In spite of this one's title, a new album by the University of Northern Iowa's Jazz Band One is hardly an unlikely event. This is the eleventh in my collection, and I may have overlooked one or two. Nine were directed by Bob Washut, the two most recent by his successor, Chris Merz, who, like Washut, ...