and Seven Songs for Quartet and Chamber
Orchestra; and, more recently, By the Way, Big
Music, and Europeana—an album of European
folk music featuring Joachim Kuhn with the

NDR Symphony Orchestra. Gibbs has written and
orchestrated for John McLaughhn Stanley
Clarke, Jaco Pasto eter Gabriel, Elton
John, Sting H’94, B Hornsby *74, Joni
Mitchell, and Narada Michael Walden, among
others, including Burton, Getz, and the man hon-
ored here, Herb Pomeroy. Gibbs’ other recent
credits include the Forsyth’s film
Being Human, Joh and Ate
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Greg Hopkins
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ally, appearing at the Newport,

and other major jazz festivals. Hopkins

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, ie Wonder, Joe Williams, Tony

k Bennett the Supremes, Burt Bacharach, Nancy
Wilson H’94, Lou Rawls, Mitzi Gaynor, Michel
Legrand, Johnny Mathis, Shirley Maclaine,
Marvin Hamlisch, and Lena Horne, as well as the
Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Boston Pops,
and the Boston Brass Ensemble; and has arranged
and recorded for Groove Merchant, Motown, and
RCA. His theater work includes Tommy Tune
Tonight, Catskills on Broadway, My Fair Lady
with Rex Harrison, The King and I with Yul
Brynner, West Side Story, Porgy and Bess, Into
the Woods, and A Chorus Line. He recorded The
Roar of °74 and Stick It with the Buddy Rich
Orchestra, Afro-disia with Lonnie Smith,
Pramlatta’s Hips with Herb Pomeroy (Shiah),
Together with Maggi Scott (MM and R), Orange
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Jumpin’ in the Future with Gunther Schuller
(GM), and Dreams Come True, with Suzanne
Dean (NOVA). He has published arrangements
and compositions with Kendor and Studio P.R. He
now leads the Greg Hopkins Big Band, continues
to write and orchestrate, and is Associate
Professor of Jazz Composition at Berklee.

Joe Hunt

Wire brushes, borrowed from his older brother

who used to tap along when listening to music,

were what first got Joe Hunt drumming during his

early years in Indiana. The self-taught drummer

went on to study percussion at Indiana University

and classical music at Mannes College—part of the

New School for Social Research. Hunt worked in p
Manbhattan for 12 years as a full-time jazz musi-
cian, recording with Stan Getz, Bill Evans, and
George Russell, before joining the Berklee faculty
in 1971. Hunt’s work in the Getz Quartet can be
heard on the recent Verve title Nobody Else but
Me, a collection of previously unreleased tracks
from the group’s only studio session, recorded in
1964, featuring Gary Burton, Gene Cherico ’59,
and Getz; and on the live Getz Au Go-Go. Hunt
has worked with Jim Hall, Gary Burton, Pepper
Adams, Barry Harris, and, of course, Herb
Pomeroy. He has also performed with the National
Jazz Ensemble and the New York Jazz Sextet, and
on MASS under the direction of Leonard ;
Bernstein. Hunt has recorded with Gary
McFarland, Danny Kalb for Ars Nova on Atlantic
Records, Bobby Hackett, Les Elgart, and the
Chuck Israels Orchestra. He was the featured per-
cussionist on the Broadway productions of
Promises, Promises and The Me Nobody Knows.
Hunt is a Professor of Percussion at Berklee.

Tommy Kamp 92

Iowan arranger Tommy Kamp has worked exten-
sively with Gary Burton and Pat Metheny. He
arranged all the music and cowrote an original
tune with vocalist Rebecca Parris for her 1994 col-
laboration with Burton, It’s Another Day on GRP
Records. Kamp has also worked with John
Scofield, Jim Hall, Eddie Daniels, Will Lee, and
the American Jazz Philharmonic Orchestra.
Kamp, who moved to Boston in 1990, and was
appointed to the Berklee faculty in 1992, holds a ‘
degree in professional music from the college, in
addition to a history degree from Northwestern
University. This past fall, he formed the Berklee
Contemporary Pop Vocal Ensemble, a 12-voice
student ensemble with a 5-piece rhythm section
that performs the music of Incognito, Sting,

k.d. lang, Annie Lennox, Cole Porter, the Brand