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Born in Hampton Virginia, Jeff grew up near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In Philadelphia Jeff studied music at The Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts(now called University of the Arts) and received his Bachelor in Music and Music Education with a Jazz Minor. At The Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts he studied saxophone with William Zaccagni, flute with Adeline Tomasone, jazz theory with Larry McKenna and arranging/composition with Evan Solot. In ‘Philly’ Jeff pursued a career as a free-lance saxophonist both in the classical and jazz worlds. Being a woodwind doubler he was active in the theatres, supper clubs, cabarets, jazz clubs and recording studios in the Tri-State Area(Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware), Baltimore, Washington D.C

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Article: Big Band Report

Strike Up the (Unsung) Bands

by Jack Bowers
December 5, 2009

The big band era is known for producing a number of enormously successful ensembles whose leaders were household names: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Jimmie Lunceford, Fletcher Henderson, then on through Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, the brothers Jimmy Dorsey and Tommy Dorsey, Charlie Barnet, Artie Shaw, Harry James, Cab Calloway, Lionel Hampton, Dizzy Gillespie and, ...

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T--Bird '60

By Jeff Darrohn

Label: Jazzed Media
Released: 2007
Track listing: The Chase; Royal Festival Blue; Velvet Blue; Henry; Take Off; Something Unknown; Waltz For Two Lawnmowers; Bopsanova; London For Eastern Groove; T--Bird '60.

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Article: Album Review

Jeff Darrohn: T--Bird '60

Read "T--Bird '60" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
May 7, 2007

Inspired by the reed section arrangement techniques of two-time Grammy Award winner Bob Florence from decades of arranging for his own Limited Edition Big Band, master saxophonist Jeff Darrohn creates a six-horn sax section for the recording of T-Bird '60 with one major distinction--he is the entire sax section! Through the use of overdubbing, ...

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