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Sabina, Leslie

Sabina, Leslie
TITLES/RESPONSIBILITIES Professor of Music
Chair, Department of Visual and Performing Arts
ACADEMIC SCHOOL School of Arts & Sciences
ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT Visual and Performing Arts
CONTACT INFORMATION Office phone: (716) 375-2320
E-mail: lsabina@sbu.edu
FAX: (716) 375-7667
OFFICE LOCATION
Regina A. Quick Center for the Arts, 205
COURSES TAUGHT
  • Jazz Studies
  • MU 431. MIDI and Audio Production 
  • MU 121. Music Theory I 
  • MU 122. Music Theory II 
ACADEMIC DEGREES
  • Ph.D., Music Composition, Michigan State University, 1992
  • M.M., Studio Jazz Writing, University of Miami, 1984
  • B.Ed., Instrumental Music, University of Windsor, 1986
  • B.Mus., Performance, University of Toronto, 1981
OTHER EDUCATION
  • Banff Centre of the Arts
  • Eastman School of Music
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND Editor of the International Association for Jazz Education’s Jazz Education Journal from 2003 to 2008. 
ACCOMPLISHMENTS
  • Jazz performances and recordings in Detroit, Toronto and Buffalo with J.C. Heard Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Joe Williams, Billy Eckstine, Della Reese, Milt Hinton, Buddy Tate, Roger Kellaway, and many others.
  • Concert and nightclub performances with Temptations, Drifters, Manhattan Transfer, Al Martino, Jerry Vale, Anita Bryant, Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, and many others.
  • Over 60 big band and saxophone quartet compositions and arrangements published and internationally distributed by Kendor Music, Inc., and Alfred Music (Van Nuys, CA), the world's largest educational music publisher.
    • Click here  to listen to "Blowtorch"
    • Click here  to listen to "Down 'N Up"
    • Click here  to listen to "Hotter Sauce"
    • Click here  to listen to "Southern Charm"
    • Click here  to listen to "Deep Fried"
    • Click here  to listen to "Glazed Over"
    • Click here  to listen to "Rooster Tail"
    • Click here  to listen to "Radio Active"
    • Click here  to listen to "Follow My Lead"
    • Click here  to listen to "SoCal Samba"
    • Click here  to listen to "Gig Bag"
    • Click here  to listen to "Brouhaha"
    • Click here  to listen to "Seismic Strut"
    • Click here  to listen to "Swing, Inc."
    • Click here  to listen to "Looking South."
    • Click here  to listen to "Maximum Trajectory."
    • Click here  to listen to Duke Ellington's "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (arr. for saxophone quartet by L. Sabina)
    • Click here  to listen to Hoagy Carmichael's "Stardust" (arr. for saxophone quartet by L. Sabina)
  • Fourteen "Editor's Choice" awards from J.W. Pepper, one of the world's largest sheet music distributers.
  • Recipient of ASCAP's MusicPlus award every year since 1995.
  • Author of Jazz Arranging and Orchestration: A Concise Introduction, published by Schirmer/Wadsworth (now Cengage).
  • More than 40 transcriptions and analyses of jazz work by L. Armstrong, M. Davis, C. Parker, L. Young, etc., published by JazzUK journal:
    • Click here to see Steve Grossman's tenor saxophone solo on "Zulu Stomp."
    • Click here to see David Liebman's soprano saxophone solo on "Pablo's Story."
  • Numerous scholarly papers on jazz published in journals and/or presented at international music conferences.
    • Click here to read "Clifford Brown's Approach To The Blues."
    • Click here to read "Beyond Bop: Substance in the Fusion Offerings of Donald Byrd, Freddie Hubbard, and Art Farmer."  
    • Click here to read "Body and Soul: The Acid Test for Tenor Saxophone Ballad Performance."
    • Click here to read "Writing for the Young Jazz Band: Balancing Creativity with Accessibility."
TEACHING PHILOSOPHY
CURRENT RESEARCH INTERESTS/PROJECTS
  • Playing saxophone with many WNY jazz combos; playing saxophone with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra and the BPO Big Band; playing electric bass with the LTM Trio
  • Ongoing recording of saxophone quartets, contemporary jazz, and electronica in the St. Bonaventure MIDI/Audio Production Studio
  • Composing and arranging music for big band and various jazz groups
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