Bio:
Kevin Bryson, 2024, Assistant Professor of Music, D.M.A. in Instrumental Jazz Performance – University of Miami, MM in Jazz Studies – University of Southern California, BM in Jazz Performance and Music Synthesis – Berklee College of Music.
Jazz Trombonist Dr. Kevin Bryson is the Director of Jazz Studies and Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Arkansas at Monticello. Dr. Bryson has enjoyed a dynamic career as a performer, composer, educator, and music technologist. He has performed at notable venues, studios, and festivals like Avery Fischer Hall, The Adrienne Arsht Center, Yoshi’s Jazz Club, The San Jose Jazz Festival, Festival Napa Valley, Capitol Records, and Abbey Road. He has performed jazz, pop, and Latin jazz styles alongside artists Patti Austin, Cindy Lauper, Jennifer Hudson, Chucho Valdez, and Arturo Sandoval.
As a music technologist, Dr. Bryson has worked in sound design and product development. His sounds can be found on the award-winning sound modules Receptor and Muse Box which have been used worldwide by major touring artists like The Muse, Paul McCartney, Coldplay, and the Goo Goo Dolls. He has designed commissioned sounds and presets for bands like the Tubes, The December People, and the L’amour Band. Dr. Bryson’s creative projects with technology explore the mixture of electric and acoustic sounds, generative music, and interactive improvisation with computers.
Dr. Bryson recently earned his doctorate in instrumental jazz performance from the University of Miami. His dissertation “Linear Chord Scale Analysis and Improvisation in Post-Bop Jazz Harmony” explores a new method for analyzing and exploring improvisation in the music of modern jazz pioneers like Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, and Woody Shaw. During Dr. Bryson’s educational journey, he studied with Phil Wilson, Hal Crook, Andy Martin, and Jan Kagarice. Dr. Bryson is an endorsing artist for BAC trombones and performs on a custom Paseo Trombone from BAC music.