Texas State School of Music

Jazz Studies

Freddie Mendoza - co-director
fm11@txstate.edu
(512) 245-1462
Keith Winking - co-director
kw09@txstate.edu
(512) 245-3020

These past Texas State jazz students have lifetime jazz careers ahead of them. Click their picture for their story.

Arthur Latin - Drummer who currently plays/records with Harry Connick Jr.	Edwin Livingston - Bassist who has played/recorded with Ellis and Jason Marsalis and is the bass player in the movie "Ray."
Fred Sanders - Pianist who toured with Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and who is currently playing with the Dirty Dozen Brass Band.	John Mills - Saxophonist/Composer and Current UT Faculty member
Elias Haslanger - Tenor sax who toured with Maynard Ferguson.	Adam Schroeder - Baritone Sax who was touring/recording with Ray Charles. While a student at Texas State, Adam won the Downbeat Magazine Award as the "Outstanding Collegiate Jazz Soloist"
Paul Armstrong - Trumpet who toured/recorded with Maynard Ferguson and who is now playing with the Army Jazz Ambassadors.