Another trio loaded with talent!

Randy Napoleon is an American jazz guitarist, composer, and arranger who tours nationally and internationally. He has also toured with the Freddy Cole Quartet, Benny Green, the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra led by John Clayton, Jeff Clayton, and Jeff Hamilton, Rene Marie, and with Michael Bublé.[1][2][3][4]

He is an expert on the Cole school, the music of Freddy Cole and Nat King Cole.[5]

He is an associate professor and Associate Director of Jazz Studies in the College of Music at Michigan State University[6] and has done master classes at universities and music schools throughout the United States and Canada.[7] During a 2023 tour of Japan, he taught at several colleges throughout the country. During summers, he is on the faculty of the Brevard Music Center's Jazz Institute. [8]

John Hill received both a Bachelor of Music Ed. degree and a Master of Music Performance degree from Central Michigan University and is a proud former student of late percussionist, Mr. Robert Hohner.  In Michigan public schools for over twenty-nine years, he is currently on staff at Oxford High School where he teaches Guitar, Jazz Band, and Marching Band.  He is also adjunct faculty for both Mott Community College.  Mr. Hill is a respected jazz/classical percussionist and a highly sought clinician in schools throughout the state.  He performs regularly with the Flint Symphony Orchestra, Saginaw Bay Symphony, and the Lansing Symphony Orchestra.

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