TERRY VOSBEIN was born into a musical family in the musical city of New Orleans. He spent his first decades immersed in the world of jazz composition and performance, playing and writing and learning.

Somewhere along the way he got a few degrees, wrote some symphonies and found himself in Lexington, Virginia, teaching at Washington and Lee University.

In recent years he has turned back to his jazz roots.

His suite for jazz nonet, Come And Get It, has received performances in the US, France and Canada.

In 2008 he spent seven months living in Paris and Copenhagen creating music for twenty-piece big band. Some of these new compositions can be found on his latest CD Progressive Jazz 2009, featuring the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra (Max Frank Music).

Recent performances of Vosbein’s Progressive Jazz arrangements of the music from Sweeney Todd are now available on compact disc, once again featuring the fabulous Knoxville Jazz Orchestra.

A photo tribute to my friend and mentor, bassist John Worster