Rick Drexler is part of The Jazz Professors, an ensemble of UCF music department faculty members. They have collaborated an interesting way to help their students gain real-life experience. Music business classes in the Jazz Studies Program at the University of Central Florida used to involve imaginary scenarios of touring and recording projects. Now students are producing, marketing and distributing jazz albums that have earned national radio airplay under the school’s Flying Horse Records label.

Congratulations, Rick!