Pete's Percussion Podcast: Episode 294 - Matthew Jordan

Jacksonville State University (AL) Percussion Professor Matthew Jordan stops by to talk about his position at JSU and the coordination of the large studio there (02:20), his Drum Corps teaching, work schedules with Bluecoats, and freelance performance work (20:00), growing up in Nashville, TN, his musical family, boy scouts, BMX biking, and getting into DCI as a performer (36:55), going to Middle Tennessee State for undergrad (50:10), North Texas for the master’s (56:16), Florida State for his doctorate, working at MTSU, and his time working at Pearl/Adams (01:04:50), and finishing up with the Random Ass Questions, including discussions of movies, books, and that time he stumbled into his solo xylophone concerto performance (01:24:30).

Finishing with a Rave on the recently concluded 2022 National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy in Memphis, TN (01:51:30).

Links:

Matthew Jordan’s website

Matthew Jordan’s Jacksonville State page

Bluecoats Drum & Bugle Corps

Music City Mystique

Spirit of Atlanta

Andrew Lynge

Clint Gillespie

Brant Blackard

Tony McCutcheon

Emrah Kotan

JSU’s Marching Southerners

Randy Nelson

Shane Gwaltney

Sean Womack

Cavaliers DBC

Scott Johnson

Paul Rennick

Sandi Rennick

Santa Clara Vanguard

Raves:

National Conference on Percussion Pedagogy website