Reginald Thomas

Mr. Thomas is currently Coordinator of the Northern Illinois University School of Music’s Jazz Studies program. He previously served as Professor of Jazz Piano at Michigan State University College of Music, and Professor of Jazz Studies at Southern Illinois University – Edwardsville. He is a consultant/clinician for Jazz at Lincoln Center for the past decade, working with the Essentially Ellington Program and the Band Director Academy. He remains an active clinician/adjudicator at colleges throughout the country and at conventions of the International Association for Jazz Educators and its successor, the Jazz Education Network.