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Instrument: Saxophone
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Kent Engelhardt
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Dr. Kent Engelhardt, a Youngstown native, makes his home in the city of Youngstown with his wife Dr. Beth Hargreaves. Kent graduated from Boardman High School in 1981 and continued his education at Youngstown State University. He graduated from YSU in 1986 with a Bachelor of Music degree (summa cum laude) in Performance (jazz studies/saxophone/clarinet). After graduation, Kent toured internationally with the "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra conducted by Buddy Morrow," where he was a featured soloist. While he was a member of the orchestra, Kent appeared in the PBS television special "Tommy Dorsey - Sentimental Gentleman of Swing." The special featured Mel Torme, Buddy Rich, Maureen McGovern, Jack Jones, the L.A. Voices, and the "Tommy Dorsey Orchestra."
Madd For Tadd
By Steve Enos
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: Disc 1—Central Avenue Swing; Dameron Stomp; A La Bridges; 400 Swing; Heaven’s Doors
Are Open Wide; Dig It; Keep Rockin’; Society Steps Out; My Dream; Rock and Ride; Take ‘Um.
Disc 2—Our Delight; Lady Bird; Soultrane; Cool Breeze; A Blue Time; Handy Andy (Gnid); I
Think I’ll Go Away; Smooth as the Wind; Mating Call; Super Jet; The Squirrel.
Kent Engelhardt & Stephen Enos: Madd For Tadd
by Jack Bowers
The masterworks on this second edition of Madd for Tadd are presented on two discs, one of which bears the name of one of composer/pianist Tadd Dameron's classic themes, “Our Delight." Oddly, the other is named for the only non-Dameronian item on the menu, “Central Avenue Swing," written by saxophonist and Dameron chronicler Kent Engelhardt who ...
Horace Silver, Javier Nero & David Whitman
by Joe Dimino
We begin the 819th Episode of Neon Jazz with accomplished drummer David Whitman and music off his 2023 album Ode to Joe. The project was in honor of his mentor Joe Morello and we hear with the legendary Dave Brubeck Quartet. We also hear from a number of up and coming jazz musicians like Javier Nero, ...
Madd For Tadd Marks Its Second Celebration Of Tadd Dameron With 'Central Avenue Swing & Our Delight,' Set For August 25 Release By Tighten Up Records
Kent Engelhardt doubles down—literally—on his pursuit of big-band arrangements of the works of Tadd Dameron with Madd for Tadd’s August 25 release of Central Avenue Swing & Our Delight (Tighten Up). The two-disc set (a follow-up to their 2018 debut The Magic Continues) finds MFT, Ohio-based alto saxophonist Engelhardt’s 15-piece Dameron big band—co-led and conducted by ...
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