Rick Condit

Rick Condit

Director of Jazz Studies
Professor of Saxophone

Office: Music 206
Phone: 409-880-8146
Email: rcondit@lamar.edu 

In over four decades as a professional musician, Rick Condit has taught and performed in 25 countries on five continents. As a member of the first Monterey Jazz Festival All Star High School Band, tenor sax soloist with the legendary Stan Kenton Orchestra of the 70’s, UNT One O’Clock Lab Band, a Fulbright Senior Scholar, and Kennedy Center Jazz Ambassador, Rick has dedicated his career to performing, mentoring, and helping young musicians appreciate and enjoy America’s original art form – Jazz.

Rick is currently Professor of Music and Director of Jazz Ensembles at Lamar University in Beaumont, Texas. He has recently performed with such noted artists as Eric Marienthal, Jeff Coffin, Bobby Shew, Ingrid Jensen, Tom “Bones” Malone, Tom Scott, John Pizzarelli, Joey DeFrancesco, Bobby Sanabria, Wycliffe Gordon, The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, and The Stan Kenton Legacy Orchestra. He has also presented clinics at the Jazz Education Network and Texas Music Educators Association conventions.   He is an endorsing artist for Selmer Paris Saxophones, Jody Jazz Mouthpieces, and D’Addario Woodwinds.