10/14/2026
***ARTIST SPOTLIGHT***
"I’ve been playing on Greg Black mouthpieces for several years now and have really enjoyed both the ease of tone production as well as the sound they produce. As someone that plays in a lot of different types of settings, these mouthpieces have made it much easier to switch seamlessly between instruments and to maintain a high level of consistency in performance!” – Jason Hausback
Please help us in welcoming the newest member to the Greg Black Mouthpieces Artist Family, trombonist/educator Jason Hausback.
Dr. Jason Hausback serves as Professor of Trombone and Director of Jazz Studies at Missouri State University. Prior to his arrival at MSU, Jason was active as a teacher and a performer in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. While at North Texas he was both a classical and jazz Teaching Fellow and directed the U-Tubes, who won the 2010 Eastern Trombone Workshop National Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition. He also issued their first CD entitled “The U-Tubes” in the spring of 2011. Additionally, Jason was a member of the internationally-acclaimed One O’Clock Lab Band and was on the recording “Lab 2009,” which was nominated for two Grammy awards.
In 2008, Jason was the winner of the Eastern Trombone Workshop National Classical Bass Trombone Solo Competition, as well as the ITA Kai Winding Jazz Trombone Ensemble Competition. His trombone quartet “Bell Street Four” also won the 2008 ITA Quartet competition. As an active as a freelancer throughout the mid-south region of the US he performs regularly with The Lone Star Wind Orchestra (TX), Symphony of Northwest Arkansas (AR), the Fort Smith Symphony Orchestra (AR), The Springfield Symphony Orchestra (MO), The Missouri Jazz Orchestra (MO), and Fountain City Brass Band (KS). He additionally performs with the Session Brass Quintet and ReBL Trombone Quartet. Jason has filled in with several notable orchestras including the East Texas Symphony, The Tulsa Symphony, The Omaha Symphony Orchestra, The Kansas City Symphony, and the Dallas Opera Orchestra. He has performed solo and quartet recitals at universities and conferences throughout the US as well as in South America and Europe. He has also performed in the Southeast Trombone Symposium Professors Choir and in featured ensembles at several different International Trombone Festivals.
Jason also has an interest in early music and enjoys this diverse and challenging repertoire. He plays the tenor and bass sackbuts and performed at the 2007 Boston Early Music Festival and at the 2008 Misiones de Chiquitos Baroque Music Festival in Bolivia. His DMA dissertation was on the sonatas of Dario Castello, a seventeenth-century Italian composer who wrote extensively for the sackbut.
Jason has served on the staff of many prominent high school marching bands in Texas, including Marcus HS (2007-2015), Texas 5A/6A State champions five consecutive times. He has worked with several drum and bugle corps, including Capital Sound, the Madison Scouts, Spirit of Atlanta, the Boston Crusaders, Phantom Regiment, and the Crossmen. Jason has also been active as an adjudicator for marching band, solo/ensemble and jazz competitions. Most notably, he had the honor of judging several International Trombone Association competitions, as well as for American Trombone Workshop, Southeast Trombone Symposium, and the Big 12 Trombone Conference. Jason is Past President of the Missouri Music Teachers Association (2022-24) and formerly served as Vice President, as well as State Chair for the Music Teachers National Association (MTNA) from 2015-2022. He is also the faculty advisor for the Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Iota Rho Chapter.
Jason holds the BM in Trombone Performance degree from the University of Wisconsin: Madison, and the MM and DMA degrees in Trombone Performance from the University of North Texas. His primary teachers include Rose Lewis, Dr. William Richardson, Dr. Vern Kagarice, Jan Kagarice, and Tony Baker.
