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Mike Parkinson is a Kansas City based Artist/Clinician, a KHS America Educational Artist, and an XO Trumpets Performing Artist. Mike has served as a guest performer/conductor/clinician at schools, conferences, and festivals across the United States. He is Director of JAZZ Spoken Here, a post-bop sextet and is the director of the TRINITY Jazz Ensemble, an ecumenical group affiliated with Old Mission United Methodist Church. Mike is the Coordinator of the Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors-Jamey Aebersold Clinic-Concert Series and the author of BASIE, BEBOP, BALLADS & BLUES, a highly respected jazz ensemble repertoire guide. He presents clinics on entrepreneurship/career development, ensemble techniques (jazz ensembles, combos and wind bands), brass techniques, and jazz improvisation. Mike most recently served as Director of the School of Music at Middle Tennessee State University and toured China twice with the MTSU Jazztet. He has served as the Artistic Director for the International Summer Jazz Academy in Kraków, Poland and was named Amicus Poloniae by the Republic of Poland. He received the Jess Cole Award from the Missouri Association of Jazz Educators and is a Sigma Alpha Iota Friend of the Arts. Mike has performed with American artists including Bob Brookmeyer, Bill Dobbins, Gary Foster, Bobby Watson, and Gary Wittner, with Polish artists including Joachim Mencel, Janusz Muniak, Jacek Niedziela, Dominik Wania, and Leszek Zadlo, and with composers including Robert Cooper, Donald Erb, Mark Phillips, Kim Portnoy, and Paul Osterfield. His primary influences are Miles Davis, Charles Mingus, Kenny Werner and Kenny Wheeler. A Tennessee native, Mike holds degrees from the University of North Texas (music education), Kent State University (trumpet), and the University of Cincinnati (conducting) and is married to Charlene Hanson, former director of the Tennessee Philharmonic Chorus. He is a member of the Jazz Education Network, Kansas City Jazz Ambassadors Saint Louis Polonia, the International Relations Council, Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, Pi Kappa Lambda, the Missouri Association of Jazz Educators, and the United Methodist Church.

Mike Parkinson has extensive experience performing, directing and working with jazz ensembles and combos as well as symphonic bands, wind ensembles, and brass ensembles. He is dept in traditional and contemporary jazz styles; he relates figures to students and audiences, explaining the significance of works being performed. As a guest trumpet artist with school jazz ensembles, Mike has a library of works at all levels of difficulty.

Mike is the leader of JAZZ Spoken Here, a professional sextet based in Kansas City, with Mike, trumpet, Brad Gregory, woodwinds, Earlie Bragggs, trombone, Paul Roberts, piano, Forest Stewart, bass and Jalyen Ward, drums. Additional support may be available from KHS America with sufficient lead time for grant application and approval.

• JAZZ Spoken Here Concerts for schools and public audiences: commentary and music by artists such as Bob Brookmeyer, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Charles Mingus, Charlie Parker, Wayne Shorter, Kenny Wheeler and more!
• JAZZ Spoken Here thematic concerts with commentary (details are available upon request):
  • FACES OF JAZZ & POETRY – with poetry by Nobel Prize artist Wislawa Szymborksa, with music composed by trumpeter Tomasz Stanko.
  • WITH MILES & TRANE IN MIND – a centennial salute to jazz legends trumpeter Miles Davis and saxophonist John Coltrane.
  • ISLAND – a tribute to trombonist Bob Brookmeyer & trumpeter/flugelhornist Kenny Wheeler, two legendary composers/performers.

• Artist Fee: (1) $500 for full day / $600 including an event concert, (2) $750 for two days, $800 including an evening concert – plus accommodations (if needed), meals and mileage from Overland Park, Kansas. Additional support may be available from KHS American with sufficient lead time for grant application and approval.
• JAZZ Spoken Here: fees are negotiated, depending upon the distance from metro Kansas City, the length and design for the appearance (clinics/concert), with mileage and accommodations (if needed)
• Additional Activity Fee: possible charges for copying handouts for various clinics. Mike will provide everything to the site director/presenting organizations well in advance via PDF or mail.

• ALL THAT JAZZ! A hands-on presentation for community members of all ages on the roots and history of jazz and its elements, spotlighting artist from Kansas, Missouri and beyond. This may include participation by JAZZ Spoken Here or a presentation by Mike
  
• THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET – THINKING AHEAD! For music students and their parents, an exploration of the WORLD of career options in music and how to prepare for long term happiness and success.
  
• MUSIC IS FOR LIFE / LIFE IS FOR MUSIC! Presentation on the importance of music education, from elementary-high school levels.

Clinics for middle school-university students:

• Jazz ensemble/jazz combo performance techniques, improvisation (all levels), jazz history/styles

• Symphonic bands/wind ensembles/chamber music techniques

• Clinics/demonstrations by JAZZ Spoken Here for school jazz groups on interaction, rhythm section techniques, rhythmic accuracy, phrasing, improvisation and styles, getting the music off the page. Additional support may be available from KHS America with sufficient lead time for application and approval.

Clinics for high school and college/university students:

• THE ENTREPRENEURIAL MINDSET FOR MUSICIANS, an interactive workshop for students considering careers in music. Please allow 90 minutes for this presentation.

Clinics for middle school-college/university band directors:

• BASIE, BEBOP, BALLADS & BLUES, a workshop on selecting jazz ensembles repertoire for the middle school, high school, community and college/university jazz ensemble.

• BEYOND THE BLUES, a clinic on jazz ensemble score-part analysis and editing, styles, rehearsal and conducting techniques.

• JAZZ ENSEMBLE DIRECTORS READING BAND, an exploration of classic and newer jazz ensemble repertoire, grades 2-5, in a variety of styles (blues, bebop, bossa nova, ballards, rock/funk/ Latin, jazz waltz, etc) and settings (American popular music, jazz standards, name band, original works).

• IMPROVISATION 101, an interactive clinic on improvisation basics: scale/chord relationships, common tones, interaction with the rhythm section, thematic basis, rhythm/style/interaction. This may include participation from JAZZ Spoken Here or by Mike.