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First as a performer and then a brass instructor and arranger, Frank Dorritie utilized his drum corps experience on the way to a storied career in the music industry as a Grammy-winning audio producer.<\/p>

With performance experience in drum corps dating back to the St. Catherine\u2019s Queensmen and Long Island Sunrisers, Dorritie got his start as an instructor and arranger beginning in the 1960s and \u201870s. Subsequently he\u2019d lend his talents and expertise to a lengthy list of corps all across the country, from the Garfield Cadets to the Blue Devils and Santa Clara Vanguard.<\/p>

\u201cA fond recollection I have of Frank was his involvement with the Blue Devils,\u201d 1996 DCI Hall of Fame inductee Dave Richards said. \u201cFrank had a firm understanding of the jazz idiom and applied this talent quite well in getting the Blue Devils to perform the marvelous Wayne Downey arrangements with proper jazz fundamentals.\u201d<\/p>

Earning his stripes in the music industry over many years, Dorritie\u2019s lifework as an audio producer has led him to nine Grammy nominations and two Grammy awards for his work with Cal Tjader and Art Blakely and the Jazz Messengers.<\/p>

\u201cFrank\u2019s gift of gab, spirited personality, and eagerness to share information on any topic on the face of the earth shine through while standing in front of either a brass section or audio engineers,\u201d DCI Hall of Fame member Wayne Downey said.<\/p>

Never straying far from his drum corps roots, Dorritie has helped produce a number of projects for Drum Corps International, including \u201cState of the Art,\u201d a 1980 album that marked the very first multi-track recordings of drum corps, featuring the Blue Devils and Santa Clara Vanguard.<\/p>

As part of that groundbreaking project, Dorritie was inspired to bring drum corps fans \u201cinto the arc\u201d\u2014meaning the arc-shaped formation that a corps\u2019 horn line stands in while warming up\u2014by memories of Dick Blake\u2019s 1960s \u201cBrass by Night\u201d standstill recording of New York-area junior corps. As a member of St. Catherine\u2019s Queensmen, one of the corps on the recording, Dorritie once remarked, \u201cOne of these days I\u2019m going to make another recording like that.\u201d<\/p>

Dorritie holds distinctions as a member of the National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, the Buglers Hall of Fame, and the World Drum Corps Hall of Fame.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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