Mike Steinel

Mike Steinel is an internationally recognized jazz educator and the author the highly acclaimed Essential Elements for Jazz Ensemble and Building a Jazz Vocabulary. He has performed throughout the US, Canada and in Europe, recorded with the Frank Mantooth Orchestra, the Chicago Jazz Quintet, and performed with Ella Fitzgerald, Clark Terry, Don Ellis, Bill Evans, Zoot Sims, Jerry Bergonzi, and others. He is a featured soloist on recent release by the Mike Waldrop Big Band (2015). Mike has served as Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas since 1987.