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Saxophonist Kevin McNerney received his Bachelor of Music and Master of Music Education (Jazz Studies emphasis) degrees from the University of North Texas, where he directed the Six and Nine O'Clock Lab Bands and served as a Teaching Fellow in applied saxophone (and also spent many years as a morning DJ at KNTU-FM 88.1). Since 1993, he has been an Associate Professor of Music at Collin College, where he is the director of Jazz Combo Too and Jazz Combo PM and teaches applied saxophone and a jazz improvisation class. He also maintains an extensive private saxophone studio at five secondary schools in the Garland Independent School District.
Kevin has performed with Clark Terry, Bob Mintzer, Peter Erskine, Randy Brecker, Kevin Mahogany, Bobby Shew, Mike Vax, Tom "Bones" Malone, and Frank Mantooth, as well as the Duke Ellington Small Band (featuring Barrie Lee Hall, Jr.), the Dallas Jazz Orchestra, the Dallas Wind Symphony and the symphony orchestras of Garland, Mesquite and Irving, Texas. He is the regular baritone saxophonist with the Shelley Carrol/Brad Leali Big Band, which performs regularly in the DFW area. He has been on the faculty of the Texas All-Star Jazz Camp since 1999 and appears on their CD All of Us, released in 2004 on Sea Breeze Records. Kevin is a co-founder of the EMANON Jazz Orchestra, a youth big band in Dallas that made its debut in the summer of 2006, and is scheduled to be revived in Summer 2012. He is the regular saxophonist for the Impact Worship band at Northwest Bible Church in Dallas, and he also serves as Governor of Province 32 for Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, a national music fraternity. Kevin is active as a freelance performer, adjudicator and clinician in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. His longtime sextet, known as either "Team Demon/Dingus" and "Kevin McNerney and Friends" in the past, has been dormant for a few years, but it is about be relaunched (likely under the name of "The Mythical Sextet") in the near future; he is also one-half of the new jazz duo "Credulous." A list of his upcoming performances may be found here. |