Jazz Improv Class

Taught by Joe Dallas

Joe is a trombonist and upright bassist from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a music educator of 32 years. He graduated Summa Cum Laude from Youngstown State University with a degree in Music Education and an emphasis in Jazz Performance, and in his first year of teaching he received the Sallie Mae “First Class Teacher Award” for the state of Ohio. He is the Director of Bands and Elementary Music at Sugarloaf School, where he has been named Inclusion Teacher of the Year, Sugarloaf Teacher of the Year and Mentor of the Year.

For twenty-eight years Joe has directed the award-winning Key West Paradise Big Band. He has performed with Jerry Vale, Patti Page, Michael Feinstein, The Four Aces and the Key West and Greenville Symphony, played in New York City with his father and with Lee Konitz, among others, and led his own swing band backing Randy Roberts on America’s Got Talent. Today he plays at the American Legion, VIV and the Gardens Hotel, and he lives in Cudjoe Key with his daughter, Jaina Jo.

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