Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Dan Nicholson and was recorded March 27, 2020. 

Born in North Carolina, Dan Nicholson has spent the last 20 years as an active saxophonist and educator in Chicago, Illinois. After studying with Jack Wilkins at USF and Bunky Green at UNF, Dan would began work with such greats as Joe Williams, Mel Torme, Arturo Sandoval, and John Pizarelli with the Disney Grammy All American College Jazz Band. Dan moved to Chicago in 1998 and has remained an in demand sideman while teaching at Elmhurst University in Illinois.

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Mason Thomas and was recorded March 13, 2020.

Mason Thomas is a saxophonist, guitarist and producer working throughout Louisiana for the last decade. While pursuing a Jazz Studies degree at Louisiana State University Mason began working as a full-time musician playing saxophone with several local wedding bands. After graduating, Mason relocated to Nashville where he would go on to share the stage with noteworthy artists such as The Temptations, Joey Fatone of NSYNC, Jamey Johnson, and other big names in music. He has returned to Louisiana to continue his work in wedding bands while also creating content on Youtube and Tiktok.

In 2022, Mason made his debut as a producer when he fully produced and mixed “Led Me Right to You” by Dennis Barnes.

Learn more about Mason here: 
https://www.masonthomassaxophone.com/
https://www.youtube.com/@masonthomassax
https://www.tiktok.com/@mason_thomas_music

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Travis Thacker and was recorded March 13, 2020. 

Travis Thacker is a tenor saxophonist and instrument technician in Illinois who began his musical journey by apprenticing his father Carl at age 15 in 1997. Travis graduated from Illinois State University in 2004 earning a bachelor's degree in Music Business. Upon graduation he embarked upon a full-time career as a repair technician and business owner. He partnered in business with Carl in 2008, and in addition to his repair duties, also manages the day to day business operations at Carl's Pro Band. Travis picked up where Carl left off, teaching the Instrument Repair course for future music educators at Illinois State University. He is also a very involved longtime member and clinician for the repair organization NAPBIRT and has served twice as Regional Director. Travis has remained active as a performer, most notably with his band Disorganizer. 

Learn more about Travis here: 
https://www.instagram.com/thackartcreations/
https://www.carlsproband.com/
https://www.instagram.com/disorganizerband/

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Nate Lepine and was recorded March 13, 2020. 

Tenor saxophonist Nate Lepine has been a regular fixture of the Chicago jazz, improvised music and rock scenes since the early 1990s. Known to date primarily for his work as a go-to sideman, he has appeared on over three dozen recordings by a wide range of artists including indie mainstays Cursive and Iron and Wine, and alt rock outfit Poi Dog Pondering. While ably lending his instrumental voice to these and many other popular projects, Lepine, whose true calling is jazz, has spent years cultivating his own music, building a repertoire of original compositions and performing frequently on the circuit of Chicago jazz clubs as an improviser. In the fall of 2014, the time had come to document the culmination of those efforts, and Lepine assembled a first-rate quartet to record ten of his compositions at Strobe Studio in Chicago. The result of that two day session is his long awaited debut album as a bandleader, Vortices.

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https://www.instagram.com/natelepine/
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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Nate Heffron and was recorded February 28, 2020. 

Originally from Chillicothe, Illinois, Nate Heffron started playing saxophone at the young age of nine. Nate left central Illinois to study music at Northern Illinois University where he would perform with legends such as Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Shew, Dennis Mackrel, Byron Strippling, and Red Hollaway. Following his time in school, Nate found his way to Nashville, Tennessee where he became an in demand side man for many of the top performers, currently touring around the country with recording artist Anderson East. 

Learn more about Nate here:
https://www.instagram.com/nateh222/

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Pat Malinger and was recorded February 26, 2020.

Pat Mallinger was born and raised in St. Paul, Minnesota and began playing the saxophone at 11 years of age. He received his Jazz Studies degree from North Texas State University on a “One O’clock Lab Band” Scholarship.

He lived and performed in Los Angeles, Dallas, Boston, and Japan, before establishing Chicago as his home in 1990. He is a co-leader of Sabertooth, which has been the mainstay band at the Green Mill Lounge each Saturday night from 1992 to 2018. Pat is often heard around Chicago performing with the Bobby Lewis Quintet, Model Citizens Big Band, and his own quartet to name a few. 

Pat performs concerts and festivals nationally and internationally both as a bandleader and sideman. Pat has performed with Nancy Wilson, Stevie Wonder, Herbie Hancock, Cab Calloway, Thad Jones/Mel Lewis Reunion Band, Cedar Walton, Marcus Roberts, Joey DeFrancesco, Joe Lovano, Frank Foster, Branford Marsalis, Joshua Redman, Billy Harper, Jimmy Heath, Johnny Griffin, James Moody, Lee Konitz, Phil Woods, Paquito D’Rivera, Donald Harrison, Alvin Batiste, Slide Hampton, Curtis Fuller, Steve Turre, Wycliffe Gordon, Bill Watrous, Clark Terry, Randy Brecker, Tom Harrell, Doc Severinsen, Roy Hargrove, and Nicholas Payton.

Learn more about Pat here: 
https://patmallinger.com/

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Alisha Pattillo and was recorded February 16, 2020. 

Alisha Pattillo is an Australian born, Singaporean raised saxophonist now residing in Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA. In addition to leading her own jazz group, "Alisha’s Quartet" she performs regularly as a side man with other ensembles and is a woodwind educator. Alisha started playing the saxophone at the age of 11 at the United World College of S.E Asia. Five years later she could be spotted playing in professional bands on the Singapore Club & Bar scene. Pattillo returned to Australia for her undergrad studies and graduated In 2006 with a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Saxophone from the prestigious Queensland Conservatorium of Music. In 2007 Alisha relocated to Houston, Texas to further pursue her musical career and became a major player on the blues and jazz scene. In 2012 Alisha released her debut CD “Along For The Ride”, in 2015 “Billabong Island Sound”, 2017 “H-Town Collective.” Houston also presented her with the opportunity to perform alongside national acts such as Portugal. The Man, Archie Bell & The Drells, Steve Tyrell and Joe Sample. In 2018 Alisha moved to Northwest Arkansas and has been taking the region by storm.

Learn more about Alisha here:
 https://saxleash.com/

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Doug Stone talks to jazz musicians about life, music, recent and upcoming performances, equipment and current events on this Tenor Talk Podcast recording. A different jazz musician is featured in each episode.  This episode features Roderick Paulin and was recorded February 16, 2020. 

Roderick Paulin is an American saxophonist, clarinetist, composer and educator. Roderick’s musical career spans over four decades collaborating with artists such as John Legend, Harry Connick Jr.,  Aaron Neville, Allen Toussaint, Maceo Parker, Fred Wesley, Christian McBride, Trombone ‘Shorty’ Andrews, Wynton Marsalis, The Grateful Dead, PJ Morton, The Brand New Heavies, The Afghan Whigs, Branford Marsalis, and the ReBirth Brass Band. For the last 10 years, Paulin has served on the faculty of the Louis Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp of New Orleans which is the longest running, minority-owned and operated music organization that serves public and private school students of New Orleans and surrounding communities.
Roderick completed his undergraduate music degree at Southern University New Orleans (SUNO) under the guidance of New Orleans avant-garde saxophonist Edward “Kidd” Jordan, and the previously mentioned pianist and composer Roger Dickerson. After some 30 plus years of performing in every musical setting one can think of, Roderick returned to school at 50 years old and completed his Masters Degree at Louisiana State University (LSU - May 2022) during the Pandemic and he’s continuing his academic studies currently as a Doctoral candidate pursuing the PhD in Music Education at LSU as well.
Roderick has released the projects RPM, Slow But Steady, Da Hustle Don’t Stop, and a new album Jazz, Blues, and Grooves that is set to release soon which features Roderick’s interpretations on tunes from artists Herbie Hancock, Marvin Gaye, Art Blakey, and original compositions as well.

Learn more about Roderick here:
https://roderickpaulinmusic.com/home

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