Community Corner
Jazz Trumpeter Gordon Vernick
FRIDAY, OCTOBER 11TH. As a professional trumpet player, Dr. Vernick
has performed in all musical mediums from symphony orchestra to jazz quartet.
Originally born and raised in a musician family in Manhattan, he is now an
Associate Professor of Music and Coordinator of Jazz Studies at Georgia State
University. He is also the Director of
the Georgia State University Jazztet with which he has performed at the Atlanta
Jazz Festival and the High Museum Jazz series. He has performed with such world
renown jazz artists as Kenny Werner, Randy Brecker, Marc Copland and many
others. Dr. Vernick’s weekly radio show, Jazz Insights on WMLB Atlata, is
available in podcast on iTunes and has been downloaded 2.7 million times since
May 2009. His latest CD, The Strangest Thing, was released on Jbird Records in
May 2008.
