Stock hits high notes on sax, ‘Finally’
After deciding as a Redondo High junior to pursue a career in music, Carly Stock earns a jazz studies degree and releases her debut single by Garrick Rawlings This past May, Carly Stock received her degree in Jazz Studies at the University of North Texas (UNT), which launched the first college jazz program in the world in 1947. She was also the first student to earn a minor in UNT’s new commercial music program. Shortly after returning home to Redondo Beach, the Redondo Union High alum released her debut single, “Finally,” the first song she has ever written. And she began teaching at Coast Music in Manhattan Beach. This summer she’ll join the staff of the Stanford Jazz Workshop in Palo Alto, and serve as an instructor at the UNT Jazz Combo Workshop in Denton, Texas. She’s also the newest member of Phat Cat Swinger, Hollywood’s favorite little big band, playing lead alto; she’s playing a festival with them in Chicago in August and going on a Midwest tour with them for six weeks in September. The band is well known for its residencies at Disneyland during the Festival of Holidays and the Food & Wine Festival. Carly Stock at age 14, performing with pianist Max Rhode (13), drummer…
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