Alan Baylock

Baylock’s music has been performed and/or recorded by jazz greats Freddie Hubbard, Michael Brecker, Maynard Ferguson, Doc Severinsen, Joe Lovano, Paquito D’Rivera, Phil Woods, Arturo Sandoval, David Liebman, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Kenny Werner, Joshua Redman, Nicholas Payton, Nnenna Freelon, Tierney Sutton, Kurt Elling and many more. His eclectic talents have also led him to writing music for Roy Clark, Lee Greenwood, Wynonna, Al Jarreau, Chaka Khan, Patti LaBelle, Spyro Gyra, Ronan Tynan, and symphony orchestras in the United States and abroad.

In 2016, Baylock became an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha through the Nu Psi chapter at Shenandoah University, and in 2017 he was inducted as an honorary brother into Kappa Kappa Psi by Shenandoah's Kappa Epsilon chapter.

In April 2015, Baylock was announced as the new Director of the One O’Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas and began full-time in the Fall of 2016.

Alan Baylock is an American composer, arranger, educator, bandleader, clinician, instrumentalist, and the former leader of the Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra. He was also the Jazz Composer-in-Residence at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia from 2011 until 2016 and served as the Chief Arranger for The Airmen of Note jazz ensemble in Washington, D.C. for 20 years before moving to his current position as the Director of the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas.

In 1996, Baylock enlisted in the United States Air Force, serving as the Chief Arranger for the Airmen of Note—the premier jazz band of the Air Force—for 20 years. He also founded and led the Alan Baylock Jazz Orchestra, a Washington D.C.-based professional jazz ensemble that performed across the U.S. for 15 years, during which time they recorded three studio albums. In 2011, Baylock returned to Shenandoah University to serve as the Jazz Composer-in-Residence, where he also taught jazz arranging and jazz pedagogy and co-directed the conservatory jazz ensemble.

Alan Baylock graduated from Bishop Carroll High School in Ebensburg, PA in 1985. He received a Bachelor of Music Education in 1990 from Shenandoah Conservatory at Shenandoah University, to which he later returned as an educator and Jazz Composer-in-Residence. He received his Master of Music in Jazz Studies from the University of North Texas in 1995, where his arrangements were featured on numerous recordings by the University of North Texas One O' Clock Lab Band.