While the rest of us were worrying about 'Y2K' a group of talented friends were worrying about the future of music as we know it. The year was 1999 and Denver Bierman and his merry band of musicians that would come to be known as the Mile High Orchestra were putting together an act that would take them literally to the ends of the earth. The group of Belmont University students took the music they loved and combined it with a hot, pop style, mixed in a slick tight stage show and took it on the road. Blending a red hot horn section, along with jazz and big band roots, Denver and the Mile High Orchestra have created a sound that is unlike any other. With Denver Bierman, writing and arranging the band's music, the diverse sounds of legends such as Stevie Wonder, Chicago, and Earth Wind and Fire combine for a fresh look at contemporary pop. The rest, as they say, is history. Andrew Meronek Andrew is a a trombonist, composer, and music instructor.

I play lead trombone in the Bridge Project Big Band and the Nighthawks Jazz Dectet, both to which I have also contributed some compositions and arrangements. I provide private brass instruction (plus the occasional clinic) at Evola Music. Installshield Vs Advanced Installer more. Rick Lawn EDITOR'S NOTE: I really like the 'Hymn to 9/11' Many original contemporary instrumentals. Also has original charts for 10-piece band, played by 'Power of 10' Philadelphia's premiere big band. Richard (Rick) Lawn recently retired as Dean of the College of Performing Arts at The University of the Arts in Philadelphia (). Prior to moving to Philadelphia he was the Founding Director of Jazz Studies, Chair of the Department of Music, and Associate Dean for Academic Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin.