Texas State Jazz has hosted a substantial number of big named artists/clinicians such as: |
 Marcus Printup - trumpet |  Randy Brecker-trumpet |
 Mike Williams - lead trumpet of the Count Basie Orchestra |  Kirk Whalum - sax |
 Pete Christlieb-sax |  Ed Shaughnessy -Drums |
 Eric Marienthal
|  Clark Terry - trumpet |
 Bill Watrous - Trombone |  Frank Foster - Sax/composer |
 Jim McNeeley - Piano/composer |  Dick Oatts -Sax |
 Marvin Stamm - trumpet |  Paul McKee - Trombone |
 Willie Thomas - trumpet |  Al Grey - trombone |
 Carmen Bradford -voice |  Bobby Shew - trumpet |
 Loren Schoenberg-sax and Executive Director of The Jazz Museum in Harlem |  Butch Miles- drums |
 Leni Stern - guitar |  Ernie Watts - sax |
 Brian Lynch - trumpet |  Andre Hayward- trombone (2003 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Trombone Competition Winner) |
 Fr. George Wiskirchen - Jazz Education Pioneer/legend |  Wes Anderson-sax |
 Stanley Crouch - famed jazz critic/author |  Ted Nash - saxophone |
 Michael Philip Mossman-trumpet/trombone/composer |  Joe Wilder-trumpet |
 David "Fathead" Newman - sax |  Shelly Berg - piano
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| Tads Hershorn-author/archivist, Rutgers Institute of Jazz Studies (IJS) | |
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