MeImprovisation is essential in jazz and entrepreneurship, says Tate Berry, UMKC Student Entrepreneur of the Year. Berry is a double major in jazz studies and business administration and is well versed in both.
“Making music is a very long collaborative creative process. Henry W. Bloch School of Management, University of Missouri, Kansas City Award ceremony for Entrepreneur of the Year. “We realized that music and entrepreneurship can align with each other, recognize opportunities and identify needs, and we want to use that bounty to benefit the music industry and beyond.”
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He elaborated that the best improvisers can take a concept and play it, or play it 1,000 ways.
“In jazz you can take the same licks 2-5,” he said. “I can approach it in a different way. I can solve it in another way. I can put it in a different key. is.”
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Originally from Lansing, Kansas, Berry Reignier Venture Creation Challenge Earlier this year, the big band concept was one of two ideas he has for reconciling his passion for music and business.
According to the Regnier Challenge site, Tate’s Burnin’ Big Band is a 17-piece progressive big band that blends music from multiple genres and is dedicated to advancing the art of music. We provide various services such as live performances, merchandise sales, and event production.
“It will also function as an event planning business similar to the Kansas City Jazz Orchestra,” says Berry. “But the focus is on getting more small businesses involved. prize.”
He also wants to start an affordable music and entrepreneurship studio.
“It will teach you a lot of survival and business skills that music schools don’t always teach,” he added. “But it also serves as an alternative to a music school instead.”
2022 UMKC Student Entrepreneur of the Year Tate Berry
According to UMKC, the Student Entrepreneur of the Year Award will select one of many students who demonstrate entrepreneurial spirit and behavior that will impact Kansas City’s community in the future.
“Oh, that’s amazing,” Berry said of the honor. But the Kansas City community in particular, and the Bloch School community in particular, are very supportive of what I want to do, so please also think about what I can do to give back to the community.”
Berry said he loved his experience at Bloch School, where he served as student council president for two years, and developed leadership, problem-solving, and event planning skills.
“All the classes I took at Bloch School helped me as a businessman, gave me ideas for business concepts and what I could do with music,” he added. “It’s a really great place.”
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Berry, who began playing instruments at the age of 11, has expertise in all woodwinds and piano, but is primarily called upon to play the baritone saxophone.
Tate Berry, Tate’s Burnin’ Big Band
He said music helped him overcome many adversities in life, including depression and an autism diagnosis.
“Music means a lot to me because it’s a great way to express yourself,” he continued. “It’s also been a great way to deal with a lot of what I’ve been through.”
Besides being a full-time student due to graduate in the spring, Berry has kept busy in Kansas City’s music and business scene. He is an Artist-in-Residence at the Paseo Academy of Fine and Performing Arts where he teaches jazz theory, improvisation and sound development. He is also in charge of composing and arranging jazz ensembles. He also teaches music business in the Kansas City He Area He Youth He Jazz and Artist He Record Collective Records He is an artist for the label He is a Next Generation Clinician.
Audiences can see him playing around town in a band called Brass Rewind, which plays covers of 1970s and 1980s horn bands like Chicago, Earth, Wind and Fire. Additionally, he is working on forming his own band.
He also does freelance marketing and graphic design work for several small businesses in the area.
“Music and business are my passions. I didn’t really have a high school band growing up,” he said after the band’s director told him he would never participate in UMKC’s jazz program. “That’s why I joined DECA and all the business initiatives in high school. So I didn’t want to leave it behind, but I also wanted to pursue the future of music.” .”
Berry said he is currently focused on graduating, but will continue to pursue business concepts in the future.
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