Andrew Beals

Adjunct Instructor of Music
Jazz Saxophone/Jazz Combos/Frankensax

Andrew Beals joined legendary Jazz Organist, “Brother” Jack McDuff and the “Heatin’ System” in 1986.  Beals became the latest in a long line of Jazz Saxophone greats, including: Sonny Stitt, Gene Ammons, Red Holloway, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Harold Vick, and Rahsaan Roland Kirk, to work with Jack McDuff.

Andrew Beals’ fourteen-year tenure in Jack McDuff’s band was marked by a busy performance schedule, which included lengthy tours of North America and Europe.

Andrew Beals has appeared as a leader of his own band and as a featured soloist with Jack McDuff, and others, at many renowned Jazz clubs and festivals (see attached).

Beals was a semifinalist at the 1993 Thelonious Monk Jazz Saxophone Competition; and in 1998 he was awarded the prestigious NYU Jazz Orchestra Scholarship for graduate studies in Jazz performance and composition.

Andrew Beals is currently an Adjunct Professor of Jazz Saxophone and Jazz Improvisation at Western Connecticut State University (W.C.S.U.) and a woodwind instructor at the Greenwich Music School.

He received his Bachelor of Arts Music degree at Livingston College, Rutgers University, and has a Master of Arts Music degree from New York University.  His teachers were Paul Jeffery, John Stubbelfield, Frank Foster, George Garzone (saxophone) and Jim McNeely (composition).

Andrew Beals is a featured soloist and arranger on Jack McDuff’s compact discs:

Discography – Jack McDuff/Concord Records

• Brotherly Love (featuring Pat Martino, Red Holloway, Joey DeFrancesco, and Grady Tate)
• Write on Capt’n
• Heatin’ System
• It’s About Time (Featuring Joey DeFrancesco)
• That’s the Way I Feel About It
• Bringing it Home (Featuring George Benson, Grady Tate, and Red Holloway)
• As Real As It Gets, Jack McDuff, Summit Records
• Boogaloo To Beastie Boys, Scufflin’ Records
• Seventh Sense (Featuring Doug Proper, Joe Beck, and John Ambercrombie)

Contact: bealsa@wcsu.edu