Bart Marantz
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Bart Marantz (born 1950) was the jazz instructor at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts, formerly the Arts Magnet High School, in Dallas, Texas, from 1983 to 2015.[1] Marantz and the high school students[2] he taught assembled a record of individual and group success, winning many awards and praises nationally and internationally. The music program as a whole has won 245 “Down Beat Student Music Awards” since 1983. The Jazz and Commercial program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts has produced nine alumni with 33 Grammys over its 40-year history.
Early life and training[edit]
Marantz was born in Brooklyn, New York, and moved to Miami at age seven. He began trumpet study with Frank Biringer, and he credits his junior high band director Wallace McMurry for much of his musical foundation as both a musician and person. Marantz was playing trumpet professionally in the hotels on the strip along Miami Beach while still in high school and was lead and jazz trumpet his senior year in the Florida All-State Jazz Ensemble. He studied with jazz educators Jerry Coker, Dan Haerle, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, Jaki Byard, Phil Wilson and George Russell at the University of Miami, Florida; Indiana University, Bloomington; and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston. He studied trumpet with Wallace McMurry; Frank Biringer; Bill Adam at Indiana University; Armando Ghitalla of the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and Andre Come of the Boston Symphony/Pops and New England Conservatory of Music in Boston.
Career[edit]
Marantz toured and played with a variety of shows including Ray Charles, the Glenn Miller Orchestra, staff band at the El Casino in Freeport Grand Bahamas, Nancy Wilson, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Apollo Stompers, the Up-Town Dues Band, and for Norwegian Caribbean Cruise Lines as part of the house band on the MS. Skyward and the Boheme.
Marantz, a 1986 Fulbright Scholar, entered public-school teaching as the director of the jazz program at Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts in Dallas, Texas. Under his leadership, the program garnered international attention by performing at the Monterey Jazz Festival, the World Sax Conference, the Mid-West Conference, the International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, the Jazz Educators Network Conference, the Kennedy Center, the Grammys, NFAA Arts Recognition and Talent Search, Texas Music Educators Association, as well as for the Prime Minister of United Kingdom, Queen Elizabeth II and for the NEA with a performance at the White House for the President of the United States in July 2004. He founded the “Arts Jazz Festival,” which ran from 1990 through 1993 in the Arts District of Dallas and raised a quarter of a million dollars in scholarships. He received the "Achievement in Jazz Education" award in 1993 from Down Beat Magazine and was again honored by Down Beat as the 18th recipient of the "Jazz Education Hall of Fame" in 2010. Marantz received the Dallas Independent School District/Rotary I International “Teacher of The Year” Award for 2005 and was given "The John LaPorta National Jazz Educator of the Year" award for 2012[3] by The Berklee College of Music, Boston and The Jazz Educators Network (JEN). He is only the 11th jazz educator in the US to receive this recognition. When The Jazz Educators Network held its conference in Dallas in 2014, Marantz was interviewed by Anne Bothwell from NPR at the Dallas local affiliate station, KERA.
Marantz has been the subject of many articles, including “Life, passion and all that jazz,” which ran in the Dallas Morning News in August 2010, and a cover article for the November 2009 edition of JAZZed magazine.
Writings[edit]
Marantz has been a Selmer Clinician since 1988. He is co-author of “Jazz Figure Reading Studies” and contributing author of “Selected Trumpet Master Classes”, “Teaching Jazz: A Course of Study” (IAJE/MENC’s curriculum guide) and "The Jazz Ensemble Companion." He was an IAJE “Jazz Educators Journal” staff reviewer from 1989 to 2008. Marantz has contributed to numerous periodicals, including writing a weekly column for the Hattiesburg American newspaper, and hosting a radio show on WMSU-AM, both titled The Jazz Corner. He has published in the Florida Music Director, the Music Educators Journal, the Community and Junior College Journal, the Jazz Educators Journal, Down Beat, Southwestern Musician, Selmer Brass Notes, InTune, JazzTimes, JazzEd,[4] and the Band Director's Guide magazines.
Personal life[edit]
Marantz's wife is a pianist who teaches at Dallas Baptist University and is the pianist at Park Cities Baptist Church in Dallas, Texas. The couple have two sons who are professional jazz musicians in New York: Matt, a tenor saxophonist, and Luke, a pianist. Both sons have performed, toured, and recorded extensively.
Notable awards & accomplishments[edit]
- Fulbright Scholar – South Africa – 1986; Johannesburg; Benoni; Durban; Petoria
- Produced seventeen “arts jazz” albums: 1983–2015; Includes Vinyl, Cassette and CDs
- Selmer Bach national clinician: 1988; Representing the Bach/Selmer Company in clinics and magazine adds nationally
- Recipient: The Rotary Club of Dallas/DISD Teacher of the Year - 2005
- Founder & president of the “Arts Jazz Festival” Raised a quarter of a million dollars in scholarships, 1990–1992
- Recipient: The "Achievement In Jazz Education" Award in 1993, Down Beat Magazine
- Recipient: The "Jazz Education Hall of Fame" Award Down Beat Magazine 2010
- Recipient: "The John LaPorta National Jazz Educator of the Year" 2012 by Awarded by: The Berklee College of Music, Boston MA and The Jazz Educators Network, JEN Cover Feature Article – JazzEd Magazine – 2008, “Anything Is Possible”
- Co-author of books: “Jazz Figure Reading Studies” and CONTRIBUTING AUTHOR: of “Selected Trumpet Master Classes,” IAJE/MENC’s curriculum guide “Teaching Jazz: A Course of Study,” "The Jazz Ensemble Companion" and “The Jazzer’s Cook Book.” DISD Curriculum guides: CM I – Comprehensive Musicianship, Jazz Improvisation, Business of Music. He was an IAJE “Jazz Educators Journal” staff reviewer from 1989-2008. Bart has written for a number of periodicals that include a weekly column for the Hattiesburg American Newspaper and hosted a radio show on WMSU-AM, both titled The Jazz Corner. He has published in The Florida Music Director, The Music Educators Journal, The Southwest Musician, The Community and Junior College Journal, The Jazz Educators Journal, Down Beat, Selmer Brass Notes, InTune, JazzTimes, JazzEd, and The Band Directors Guide Magazines.
- Studied with jazz educators: Jerry Coker, Dan Haerle, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, Jaki Byard, Phil Wilson and George Russell at The University of Miami, Florida, Indiana University, Bloomington, and the New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, MA. Studied trumpet with: Wallace McMurry, Dr. Frank Biringer, Bill Adam, Indiana University, Armondo Ghitalla (Boston Symphony), Andre Come (Boston Symphony/Pops), New England Conservatory of Music Boston MA.
- Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts jazz studies program under Bart Marantz’s leadership has garnered international attention by performing at:The Monterey Jazz Festival, The World Sax Conference, The Mid-West Conference, The International Association of Jazz Educators Conference, The Jazz Educators Network Conference, The Kennedy Center, The Grammy's, NFAA Arts Recognition and Talent Search, Texas Music Educators Association, as well as for the Prime-Minister of England, the Queen of England and for the NEA with a performance at the White House for the President of the United States in July 2004.
Notable accomplishments as an educator[edit]
- Arts Jazz Festival - 1990-1992; Produced $250,000.00 in Scholarships
- Produced seventeen jazz albums – 1983 -2015; Includes Vinyl, Cassette and CDs (one packaged with DVD)
- Down Beat Student Music Awards” since 1983 - 245
- Departmental awards Departmental – Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz
- Sixteen performances at The International Association of Jazz Educators Conference
- Departmental – Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz; Appearances were made throughout the US and Canada; Only eligible to perform every other year
- Five performances at The Jazz Educators Network Conference Departmental; Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz; Conference was started in 2008; Only eligible to perform every other year
- Ten Down Beat Music Fest. National Awards 1987; 1990 Departmental; Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz Gold; Four Silver; Four Bronze; Two Twenty-Three
- Dallas Independent School Board Resolutions for the Jazz Studies Program
- Three Resolutions from the Mayor of Dallas Two Resolutions from the Governor of Texas
- One Resolution from the Chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts
- One Resolution from the President of the United State
- Ten National Finals and Four Wins at the National Monterey Jazz Festival Departmental; Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz
- Nine Alumni with Thirty-Three Grammy Awards; includes additional years 1976-2015)
- Fifteen National Jazz Arts Awards; Arts Recognition & Talent Awards Departmental; Includes Instrumental and Vocal Jazz
References[edit]
- ↑ https://thehub.dallasisd.org/2015/05/01/cbs-dfw-longtime-dallas-high-school-jazz-teacher-ready-to-retire/
- ↑ http://www.dallasnews.com/news/education/headlines/20100802-Booker-T-Washington-High-School-4089.ece
- ↑ http://www.conn-selmer.com/en-us/artist-information/centerstage/news/bart-marantz-receives-2012-john-laporta-award/
- ↑ http://www.jazzedmagazine.com/2407/articles/spotlight/bart-marantz-anything-is-possible/
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