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Jeff Ellwood

Jeff Ellwood is the newly appointed Director of Instrumental Jazz Studies at Mt. San Antonio College. He received his Bachelor of Music degree from the Berklee College of Music and Master of Music degree from Cal State Fullerton. He has studied saxophone and improvisation with: James Moody, Rick Margitza, Billy Pierce, George Garzone, Hal Crook, Gary Foster, Eric Marienthal, Charlie Banacos, Jim Odgren, James Rotter, and Charles Richard. Jeff has shared the stage with: Tony Bennett, James Moody, Joe Zawinal, Randy Brecker, Christian McBride, Stevie Wonder, Bob Mintzer, Eddie Daniels, Arturo Sandoval, Dave Grusin, John Williams, and Quincy Jones to name a few. In 2001 Jeff was awarded the “Best College Saxophonist Award” at the prestigious Reno Jazz Festival

East Meets West

By Mina Choi

Label: Metre Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Smells Like Teen Spirit; Linus and Lucy; Rise; The Mystery of Monifa Brown; Message Home; Whatever You Say.

Linus and Lucy

November 26, 2026

Album: East Meets West
By Mina Choi
Label: Metre Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 06:05

Smells Like Teen Spirit

November 8, 2026

Album: East Meets West
By Mina Choi
Label: Metre Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 07:48

Be With Me

By Matt Gordy

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2022
Track listing: Topsy; You and the Night and the Music; Camouflage; Spring Ahead; Chloe; Be with Me; Soul Eyes; My Shining Hour; Wheatland; Sunny.

The Matt Gordy Jazz Tonite Sextet: Be With Me

by Jack Bowers
January 11, 2022

In 2006, drummer Matt Gordy heeded the mandate to “go west, young man," moving from Boston to Los Angeles, while he was still “young at heart," and quickly becoming a mainstay of the local scene, after years of success as a jazz and classical drummer in New England, and even with the Maracaibo, Venezuela, Symphony Orchestra, ...

The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

By Jeff Benedict

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: Moonscape; Nardis; The Fotomat Song; The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful; Armadillo Research; Ant Dance; Cheek to Cheek; The Mighty Dollar; Tom and Jerry; Hikky Burr.

The Sounds Around The House

By Jeff Ellwood

Label: Self Produced
Released: 2021
Track listing: U-R; Agrodolce; Old School Blues; Provence; The Sounds Around The House; King Henry; Barcelona; The Honeymoon; For Roger

Jeff Ellwood: The Sounds Around The House

by Pierre Giroux
March 8, 2021

As a professional musician hoping to have a meaningful career, hiding one's light under a bushel, may not be the best way to recognizable success. Such might be the case for tenor saxophonist Jeff Ellwood. He may have fallen into the trap evinced by the Dave Frishberg ditty “I Want To Be ...

Jeff Benedict Big Band: The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful

by Jack Bowers
January 30, 2021

As saxophonist Jeff Benedict is a professor emeritus of music at California State University-Los Angeles, he shouldn't be overly concerned if an impartial observer should decide to grade the southern California-based Jeff Benedict Big Band's second album, The Weather Is Here, Wish You Were Beautiful. After careful listening, herewith is the report card. Brass and reeds: ...