Jim Bob Floyd
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James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas
) is an America
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
Frost School of Music
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Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
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James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas
) is an America
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
Frost School of Music
. Jack Edwin Guerry (born 1931), Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher, University of North Texas Press
(1991)
Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
.
James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas
) is an America
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
Frost School of Music
. Jack Edwin Guerry (born 1931), Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher, University of North Texas Press
(1991)
Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
.Renaissance Man: JB Floyd, Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, Buena Park
, August 8, 2003
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
) is an America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
Frost School of Music
Frost School of Music
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music or Frost School of Music of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, known from 1926 to 2003 as University of Miami School of Music, is a music school in the United States....
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Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
Yamaha Artist
The term Yamaha Artist refers to musical instrumentalists who choose, officially, to play any of a large group of Yamaha musical instruments....
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James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
) is an America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
Frost School of Music
Frost School of Music
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music or Frost School of Music of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, known from 1926 to 2003 as University of Miami School of Music, is a music school in the United States....
. Jack Edwin Guerry (born 1931), Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher, University of North Texas Press
University of North Texas Press
The University of North Texas Press , founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas.-External links:*...
(1991)
Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
Yamaha Artist
The term Yamaha Artist refers to musical instrumentalists who choose, officially, to play any of a large group of Yamaha musical instruments....
.
James Robert Floyd aka J. B. Floyd (born 2 Jun 1929 Tyler, Texas
Tyler, Texas
Tyler is a city in and the county seat of Smith County, Texas, in the United States. It takes its name from President John Tyler . The city had a population of 109,000 in 2010, according to the United States Census Bureau...
) is an America
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
concert pianist (jazz, classical, avant guard, and the like), composer, and music pedagogue at the collegiate level. He has long-been a professor of music, which has included Chairman of Keyboard Performance, at the University of Miami
University of Miami
The University of Miami is a private, non-sectarian university founded in 1925 with its main campus in Coral Gables, Florida, a medical campus in Miami city proper at Civic Center, and an oceanographic research facility on Virginia Key., the university currently enrolls 15,629 students in 12...
Frost School of Music
Frost School of Music
The Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music or Frost School of Music of the University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida, known from 1926 to 2003 as University of Miami School of Music, is a music school in the United States....
. Jack Edwin Guerry (born 1931), Silvio Scionti: Remembering a Master Pianist and Teacher, University of North Texas Press
University of North Texas Press
The University of North Texas Press , founded in 1987, is a university press that is part of the University of North Texas.-External links:*...
(1991)
Floyd is a Yamaha Artist
Yamaha Artist
The term Yamaha Artist refers to musical instrumentalists who choose, officially, to play any of a large group of Yamaha musical instruments....
.Renaissance Man: JB Floyd, Yamaha Corporation of America, Piano Division, Buena Park
Buena Park
Buena Park is the name of two places in the United States:*Buena Park, California*Buena Park, Chicago, Illinois...
, August 8, 2003
Selected discography
- A Transporting Transmittance (CD), Mutable Music (May 2003)
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- JB Floyd (piano), Thomas BucknerThomas BucknerThomas Buckner is an American baritone vocalist specializing in the performance of contemporary classical music and improvised music...
(baritone), Lisa Hansen (flute), Robert AshleyRobert AshleyRobert Ashley , is a contemporary American composer, best known for his operas and other theatrical works, many of which incorporate electronics and extended techniques. Along with Gordon Mumma, Ashley was also a major pioneer of audio synthesis.Ashley was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan...
(composer)François Couture, Transporting Transmittance: Music of J.B. Floyd, Allmusic, 2003- Suitable for Framing David Rosenboom, JB Floyd & Trichy SankaranTrichy SankaranTrichy Sankaran is an Indian percussionist, composer, scholar, and educator. He is acknowledged as one of the foremost virtuosos of the mridangam and also plays the kanjira on occasion. Since the early 1970s, he has performed and recorded in a number of cross-cultural projects.Sankaran has lived...
, Mutable Music (1975) - Salvatore Martirano: "O, O, O, O, That Shakespeherian Rag
- Suitable for Framing David Rosenboom, JB Floyd & Trichy Sankaran
- University of Illinois Chamber Choir & Madrigal Singers, Salvatore MartiranoSalvatore MartiranoSalvatore Giovanni Martirano was an American composer of contemporary classical music.Born in Yonkers, New York, he taught for many years at the University of Illinois...
(conductor), Marilyn Nonken, J.B Floyd, Vicki Ray (piano), Jacqueline Bobak, Donald Smith (vocalist), Ronald Dewar (bass clarinet, tenor sax), Thomas Howell (flute), Howard Smith (contra-alto clarinet), Arthur Maddox (celeste), Dorothy Martirano (violin), Lee Duckles (cello), Thomas Frederickson (bass), Morgan Powell (trombone), Charles Brougham, Rick Kvistad (percussion)- Vol. 18, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age–III"
- Paul LanskyPaul LanskyPaul Lansky is an American electronic-music or computer-music composer who has been producing works from the 1970s up to the present day .-Biography:...
– Stroll, for chamber group and computer music on tape - Cindy McTeeCindy McTeeCindy McTee is an American composer and educator.-Education:Cindy McTee studied at Pacific Lutheran University, the Academy of Music in Kraków, Yale University, and the University of Iowa...
– "M" Music (1991-92), for alto saxophone and computer music on tape - Charles DodgeCharles Dodge (composer)Charles Dodge is an American composer best known for his electronic music, specifically his computer music. He is a former student of Darius Milhaud and Gunther Schuller.-Education and teaching career:...
– In Celebration (1975), computer music on tape - J.B. Floyd – Tribute (1991), piano and computer music system
- Allen StrangeAllen StrangeAllen Strange was an American composer. He authored two books, Electronic Music: Systems, Techniques, and Controls and Programming and Meta-Programming the Electro-Organism...
– Sleeping Beauty (1988-92), for amplified violin and computer-generated sounds — performed by Debra RichtmeyerDebra RichtmeyerDebra Richtmeyer is an American classical saxophonist born June 19, 1957 in Lansing, Michigan.Richtmeyer earned her B.M.E. and M.M. at Northwestern University where she studied with Frederick L. Hemke. She has served as Professor of Saxophone at The University of Illinois in Urbana, Illinois since...
(alto saxophoneAlto saxophoneThe alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented by Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in 1841. It is smaller than the tenor but larger than the soprano, and is the type most used in classical compositions...
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- JB Floyd (piano), Patricia Strange (violin), members of the University of North Texas College of MusicUniversity of North Texas College of MusicThe University of North Texas College of Music, based in Denton, is a comprehensive music school with the largest enrollment of any music institution accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, and the oldest in the world offering a degree in jazz studies...
Faculty Chamber Players conducted by Thomas Clark: Mary Karen Clardy (flute), Robert Schietroma (marimba), assisted by marimbist, Hsin-Yi Wu, Carter Enyeart (cello), Adam Wodnicki (piano)- Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry AustinLarry AustinLarry Austin is a United States composer noted for his electronic and computer music works. He was a co-founder and editor of the avant-garde music periodical Source: Music of the Avant Garde...
Retrospective," Centaur RecordsCentaur RecordsCentaur Records is one of the oldest and largest independent classical labels in America. The company is located in Baton Rouge, Louisiana and was founded in 1976. Their recordings are available in major markets throughout the world, and their catalog includes classical, historical, pops,...
(1995)
- Vol. 19, CDCM Computer Music Series, "The Composer in the Computer Age-IV: A Larry Austin
- AccidentsTwo: Sound Projections, for Piano with Computer Music
- Canadian Coastlines: Canonic Fractals for Musicians and Computer Band
- Quadrants: Event/Complex No. 4 (1972, rev. 1994) for Yamaha DisklavierDisklavierDisklavier is the brand name for a group of piano-related products made by Yamaha Corporation. It was introduced in the United States in 1987....
piano - Event/Complex No. 9 (1974), for percussion, combined with delay system and electronic music on tape
- Accidents (1967), for electronically prepared piano and Buchla-100 Electronic Music SystemBuchlaBuchla & Associates, Inc. is a manufacturer of electronic musical instruments, notably synthesizers and unique MIDI controllers. The 200e Electric Music Box and Lightning III are currently in production.-Buchla Music Box :...
- Performed by David TudorDavid TudorDavid Eugene Tudor was an American pianist and composer of experimental music.- Biography :Tudor was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He studied piano with Irma Wolpe and composition with Stefan Wolpe and became known as one of the leading performers of avant garde piano music. He gave the...
, Montague/Mead Piano Plus (Stephen MontagueStephen MontagueStephen Montague is a composer who grew up in West Virginia and Florida.-Education:After studying piano, conducting and composition at Florida State University B.M 1965 with Honors, M.M 1967, he received a doctorate in composition from Ohio State University in 1972...
& Philip Mead), Robert McCormick, J.B. Floyd, and the CBC Radio Ensemble
- JB Floyd (piano), Thomas Buckner