Master Series: Blair Jazz Trio at Blair School of Music at Vanderbilt University

About Pat Coil: Pat Coil is an accomplished pianist, composer, producer, arranger, teacher, and respected studio musician. His credits span the musical spectrum of jazz, R&B, pop, country, and gospel. Coil is privileged to tour with Michael McDonald, and has previously performed with Carmen McCrae, Vince Gill, Amy Grant, Woody Herman, Larry Carlton and Olivia Newton John, including tours of Europe, Japan, South America, Australia, Canada, and the U.S. His extensive recording credits include work with Natalie Cole, Nancy Wilson, Carmen McRae, Trisha Yearwood, Ernie Watts, Michael McDonald, George Strait, Peter Cetera, Scott Henderson & Tribal Tech, Barry Manilow, Michael Feinstein, Kenny Rogers, Travis Tritt, and Woody Herman. Coil has also played on hundreds of commercials, televisions shows and film scores and composes for several library and TV and film companies, including Entertainment Tonight, Dr. Phil, Rachael Ray, Drew Barrymore, and Inside Edition. About Rob Linton: Rob Linton is a versatile bassist from Charlotte, North Carolina. He teaches jazz bass and jazz combos at Blair School of Music and is also actively involved with the Blair Academy precollegiate program. Linton has performed with Eric Reed, Greg Tardy, Dave Potter and Retro Groove, and Variego3. He has also performed with other standout musicians including Don Aliquo, Miguel Alvarado, Taber Gable, Kenneth Brown, Jack Roben, Jonathan Barber, Stacey Dillard, Will Boyd, Mark Boling, Troy Conn, Ocie Davis, and many others. Before coming to Vanderbilt, Linton taught at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Gardner-Webb University, and The University of Tennessee. He was also the bass instructor for the Knoxville Jazz Workshop. About Marc Widenhofer: A versatile jazz drummer and educator, Widenhofer has performed with John Clayton, Houston Person, Joel Frahm, Pat Coil, Bruce Dudley, Don Aliquo, Ron Bridgewater, Janguen Bae, Bert Ligon, Chip Stephens, Larry Gray, Chip McNeil, and The Ryan Middagh Jazz Orchestra, and was a featured artist headlining the 2012 Taichung International Jazz Festival with the JB Trio and Greg Osby. Widenhofer has also toured internationally throughout China with Nashville-based band Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, recording their 2017 release Live from China! (DMHO). An active educator and clinician, Widenhofer has held teaching positions at the University of South Carolina-Columbia, Lander University, USC-Aiken and Greenville College. In addition to his teaching positions, he has held masterclasses focusing on jazz drumming and group performance concepts within the jazz idiom at Millikin University and the University of Minnesota, Morris. Widenhofer holds a BM in commercial music from Millikin University, a MM in jazz studies from the University of Northern Colorado, and a DMA in jazz studies from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.