Clinician: Dave Ness

David Ness, B.M. Northern Illinois University; M.M. Northwestern University, is a freelance musician in the Chicago area.  He is teaching improvisation at Northwestern University in the fall of 2001.  He is also currently the guitar instructor at Carthage College and Judson College. He has taught general music to grades K-8 for Des Plaines District 62.  In the past he has been a Jazz Band and Jazz Combo director at Stevenson High School in Lincolnshire, IL and was the guitar instructor at Morton West High School in Berwyn, IL. For the past four years he has been an instructor at Northwestern University's National High School Music Institute.  Dave has also been an instructor and assistant camp director of Northern Illinois University's jazz camp.  While at Northwestern, Dave directed the Jazz Lab Band.  He has been a clinician for District 62, District 125, and District 79 in Illinois, as well as the Illinois Music Educators Association Conference.  Dave is featured on recordings on Southport Records and has arranged music for Danilo Perez, pianist; Shirley King, blues singer and daughter of B.B. King; and Judy Roberts, pianist and vocalist.  One of his arrangements can be heard on Shirley King's album "Daughter of the Blues."  He recently finished three big band arrangements for Tom Tallman's jazz ensemble at the College of DuPage.  The three arrangements are arrangements of tunes from Freddie Green's small group album "Mr. Rhythm."  His article on guitarist Freddie Green can be found in the November 1999 edition of the International Association of Jazz Educators Journal.  He regularly can be found performing in the Chicago area in classical, latin, and jazz groups. His website can be found at

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