Jim Riggs is a University of North Texas (UNT) Regents Professor Emeritus where for 38 years he taught applied saxophone and directed the award winning UNT Two O’Clock Band.  He is a recording artist and performed regularly with the Dallas and Ft. Worth Symphony Orchestras.  Riggs recorded Prokoviev’s Lt. Kije Suite, Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, Porgy and Bess and American In Paris with the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and performed with the orchestra on a seven country European tour.  Riggs appeared as a jazz soloist with the United States Navy Commodores in Washington, D.C. and has appeared as a featured performer/clinician at Jazz Festivals throughout the USA and Sweden.  Riggs is founder and leader of the Official Texas Jazz Orchestra of Denton.  As a student Riggs performed with the UNT One O’Clock Lab Band and as a freelance artist performed with Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Tony Bennett, Ray Charles, Nancy Wilson, Henry Mancini, Nelson Riddle, Miche Legrand and others. Riggs and pianist Stefan Karlsson recently recorded Texas Times, a CD on the Bolo-Digital label. Riggs holds degrees from the University of North Texas, the University of Toledo and is an artist/clinician for Conn-Selmer Corporation and D’Addario-Rico Reeds.