Richard (Rick) Lawn recently retired as Dean of the College of Performing Arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (www.uarts.edu). Prior to moving to Philadelphia he was the Founding Director of Jazz Studies, Chair of the Department of Music, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin. Before joining the Texas faculty Rick was Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Northern Iowa. Rick holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from the Eastman School of Music where his principal teachers were Rayburn Wright, Bill Dobbins, Chuck Mangione and William Osseck. Grants from the National Endowment of the Arts have supported his work as a composer, and as a member of the Nova Saxophone Quartet he has recorded on the Musical Heritage Society, Crystal and Equilibrium labels. He has also served on the IAJE Board and contributed numerous articles to this organization’s journal as well as the MENC Journal and the Instrumentalist magazines. The Sea Breeze record label issued “Unknown Soldiers,” a CD recorded by the Third Coast Jazz Orchestra featuring his compositions and arrangements. Kendor, CL Barnhouse, Baker’s Jazz and More, Dorn, eJazzLines, (including many of the charts previously published by Walrus and Concept Music), and UNC Jazz Press among others publish his compositions included on this web site. My most recent publication agreement with iJazzMusic.com has enabled me to to release a number of new charts and reissue some titles that had been out of print for some time. Rick’s books entitled The Jazz Ensemble Directors Manual, Jazz Theory and Practice, Experiencing Jazz (that includes an interactive website with 65 historically significant recordings) and his recent Jazz Scores and Analysis Volumes I & II have become staples among jazz educators and students. He has performed with artists such as Lionel Hampton, Chuck Mangione, Rosemary Clooney, Manhattan Transfer (on Austin City Limits), Ray Charles, Nancy Wilson, Aretha Franklin, The Rochester Philharmonic and Austin Symphony among many others including numerous Broadway shows. Selmer has sponsored his clinics, performances guest conducting appearances in 12 states.