“I just started as a part of the public school music program. I took lessons at the school every Friday and was a part of the school band. I was just a normal kid taking instrumental lessons at school, nothing special.” KidsSchoolSpecialLessonsBandNormalProgramFridayPublic SchoolSchool Band Author:Kenny G
“During the last regular session and the most recent special session, measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.” LittlesStatesLastsThreeSpecialBandProgramAidsSessionBand Aid Author:Jane D. Hull
“[Manhattan School Of Music] didn't' have a jazz undergraduate program at the time so I played a semester in the big band. There was a graduate program. But I wasn't really that involved in jazz yet.” BigsSchoolInvolvedBandProgramJazzGraduatesManhattanUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon
“Justin [Di Cioccio] was [at Laguardia School of Arts]. He later took over at Manhattan. But I knew Justin through the McDonald's band, which at the time I was finishing high school and starting college, I got involved with. I was not that heavily involved with the school at MSM my first year there. I took a semester off to start my 2nd year. Took classes I felt like taking during my third semester, but by the start of my third year, September of '86, they began the undergraduate jazz program and I joined that program.” YearsFirstsArtSchoolFeltClassCollegeInvolvedBandHigh SchoolProgramThirdsJazzStartingSeptemberFinishingManhattanMcdonaldsJustinUndergraduateSemester Author:Jon Gordon