John Mahoney is the retired Coordinator of Instrumental Music and Jazz Studies and Professor Emeritus in the College of Music and Media of Loyola University New Orleans. A native of northern New York, he received his BS in Music Education from the State University of New York at Potsdam. In 1978, after playing professionally for six years, he earned his MM degree in Jazz and Contemporary Media from the Eastman School of Music, and began teaching at Loyola University.