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Paul Krueger

Paul Krueger is a trumpeter, composer, and arranger currently residing in Eugene, OR. He is a three-time ASCAP Young Jazz Composer Award winner, and was the 2012 DownBeat Magazine award winner for Large Jazz Ensemble Arrangement. He was named the “Outstanding College Trumpeter” at the 2011 Reno Jazz Festival, and his 2011 debut album, The Wayward Traveler, features eight original compositions performed by his quartet. In September 2013, Krueger was appointed as the new Director of Bands and Jazz Studies at Lane Community College in Eugene, OR, where he teaches Ear Training, Jazz Improvisation, and Jazz Combos in addition to directing the Lane Symphonic Band and the Lane Jazz Ensemble

The UNL Jazz Orchestra: The Good Life

by Jack Bowers
March 8, 2017

The UNL in question is the University of Nebraska-Lincoln whose Jazz Orchestra has taken so many emphatic steps forward under director Paul Haar that it deserves to be mentioned in the same breath with such elite programs as North Texas, Miami, Northern Iowa and a host of others. On its fourth CD, The Good Life, recorded ...