Chuck Tumlinson is Director of Jazz Studies and Associate Professor of Trumpet at Washburn University. He received his Bachelor's degree in Music Education from Wichita State University and Master's and Doctoral degree from The University of North Texas . As a jazz performer he was featured as the jazz trumpet soloist with the North Texas State University One O'clock Lab Band and has appeared at the Wichita Jazz Festival, Kool Jazz Festivals, and The Kelowna Jazz and Blues Festival in British Columbia, Canada. He has appeared with the Count Basie Orchestra, Mark Murphy, Bobby Shew, Dizzy Gillespie, and Steve Gadd. His music has been recorded by the UNT One oclock Lab Band, the University of Northern Colorado Lab I, the Kansas City Boulevard Big Band and the Trilogy Band of Kansas City and is published by Walrus Music, the University of Northern Colorad Jazz Press and Malletworks Music. He has served as Principal Trumpet of the Wichita Falls, Texas Symphony and also performed with the Wichita Symphony, and the Ft. Worth Symphony and Opera Orchestras. As a teacher, he was the faculty advisor for a Downbeat Magazine "DeeBee" award winning group.  Former students of his have played with the Count Basie Orchestra, the Maynard FergusonOrchestra, the Dukes of Dixieland, and the U.S. Army Blues Band. He is also the Editor of the Jazz Clinic Column for the International Trumpet and. is now the newly-appointed chair of jazz studies at California State University-Fullerton.