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Wayne Goins
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Dr. Wayne Goins, University Distinguished Professor of Music, is the Director of Jazz Studies in the School of Music, Theater, & Dance at Kansas State University, where he conducts big bands and teaches combos, private guitar lessons, jazz theory and jazz improvisation courses. Goins owns Little Apple Records, on which he has published six albums under his own name (West Coast Swing; Standard Fare; Bluesin’ With the B3; Smokin’ at the Oak Bar; Home Cookin’; and Chronicles of Carmela.)
He has published numerous CD reviews and columns for magazines such as Power of Music & Audio, Pure Guitar, Jazz Ambassador, Jazz Improv, Living Blues, Jazz Guitar Life and Jazz Guitar Today, and Positive Feedback. Goins has written five books on jazz: Emotional Response To Music: Pat Metheny’s Secret Story, The Jazz Band Director’s Handbook: A Guide To Success, and Charlie Christian, Jazz Guitar’s King of Swing; The Wise Improviser: A Jazz Method for Instrumentalists, and Blues All Day Long: The Jimmy Rogers Story, which was awarded the “Blues Biography of the Year” by Living Blues Magazine. Wayne plays a Benedetto Bravo Deluxe.
