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Dana Landry is Director of Jazz Studies and Professor of Music at the University of Northern Colorado. Under his leadership, the UNC Jazz Studies Program has garnered over 65 DownBeat Student Music Awards. This includes nine over the last twelve years for UNC Jazz Lab Band I as Graduate College Winner, most recently in 2022.
Oct 1, 2005 · As Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Colorado in Greeley and the winner of a 1994 Down Beat award as outstanding soloist, Landry has chosen the right path. His "journey home" simply reinforces the music that he's loved for most of his life.
Dana Landry is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator who directs the UNC Jazz Studies Program and the UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival. He has performed with many jazz artists, recorded several albums, and received a Grammy nomination for his debut CD Journey Home.
Jun 23, 2017 · Dana Landry: Journey Home. by Jim Santella October 1, 2005. The title track of Journey Home features Dana Landry's cascading piano in a soothing ballad that meanders relentlessly in an inspired sojourn. With soprano saxophone and vibraphone, he gently massages the melody on its trek over long distances and through marathon trials.
Dana Landry is a specialist in jazz combos, improvisation, jazz pedagogy, jazz theory, jazz piano and jazz history. Directs UNC Jazz Lab I and the Northern Colorado Voices, the top vocal jazz group at UNC. A pianist, he has appeared at clubs and festivals in Europe, Australia, and throughout the U.S.
Jun 23, 2017 · The University of Northern Colorado's Lab Band 1 has been a dominant force on the intercollegiate jazz scene for many years, first under director Gene Aitken and more recently Dana Landry whose latest enterprise with the band, The Romeo and Juliet Project, was of course inspired by William Shakespeare's incomparable paean to young love and its s...
Dana Landry is always pursuing the next artistic challenge. He is as at-home playing Parker with a jazz quartet as he is playing Prokofiev with an orchestra, as comfortable playing duo in a smoky dive as he is accompanying a Diva in a concert hall.
