Testimonials

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The group [Now You Hazz Jazz] swings throughout––a style pretty much gone from today's music scene."
      Dick Peterson, letter to editor, The Union Democrat, Sonora 2014

"Copeland is unselfconsciously hip ––possessing great musicality while displaying his own vocal and compositional talents, and his abilities as an arranger."
                                           Mark Gardner, Jazz Journal International, March 1983

Career Highlights

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~Grammy Award nomination for arranging and conducting ABC Record LP "Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' ," featuring Count Basie and the Alan Copeland Singers.

~The Alan Copeland Singers - featuring 6 years on CBS's popular "The Red Skelton Hour."
Vocal/orchestra arranger for Pearl Bailey, Sarah Vaughan and Ella Fitzgerald, teaming up on Pearl Bailey's NBC TV Special.

~Grammy Award Winner for The Alan Copeland Singers ABC single "Mission Impossible/Norwegian Wood" voted Best Contemporary Performance by a Chorus.

~Creator of critically acclaimed vocal duo Feather (Alan Weaver Copeland and Mahmu Pearl.) Arranger/conductor of 8 LPs and compilation CD for world renowned Jazz label, Discovery Records.

~Feather is also featured on legendary jazz icon Horace Silver's Blue Note Records LP "Silver and Voices."

~Associate Arranger with Henry Mancini on TV series, "The Mancini Generation."

~Arranger/vocalist with world famous vocal quintet "The Modernairs" (12 years.)