Victor Goines

Victor Goines ( born 1961 in New Orleans) is an American jazz musician ( saxophone, clarinet) and high school teachers.

Victor Goines played eight years old clarinet; later he learned then saxophone when he attended high school. From 1980 he studied at Loyola University in New Orleans clarinet and saxophone and earned a Bachelor of Music Education in 1984. Goines belongs to a generation of musicians from New Orleans, who have been taught by Ellis Marsalis; In 1987, he left his hometown to continue his studies at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond (Virginia), where in 1990 he earned the Master of Music. He became known in the 1990s through its membership in the bands of Wycliffe Gordon and Wynton Marsalis, with whom he collaborated on albums like Joe Cool's Blues, Mr. Jelly Lord or Blood on the Fields. In 1999 he joined with Marsalis at the Village Vanguard in New York; He also played at this time in the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. In addition, he took off in 1996, a number of albums under his own name, on which musicians participated in the Marsalis environment, such as Eric Reed or Herlin Riley. 2005 Goines moved to the label Criss Cross, and recorded the album New Adventures, with original compositions ( Pres ' New Clarinet ) and a reinterpretation of Sidney Bechet's Petit Fleur.

Goines is head of Jazz Studies at the School of Music in bees from Northwestern University and worked as a composer of film scores.

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• Joe ' Blues ( Rosemary Joseph Records, 1997) with Eric Reed, Victor Atkins, Herlin Riley
• To Those we Love so Dearly ( Rosemary Joseph Records, 1999) with Nicholas Payton, Wycliffe Gordon, Rodney Whitaker
• Sunrise to Midnight ( Rosemary Joseph Records, 2000) with Wycliffe Gordon
• New Adventures ( Criss Cross, 2005)