Pupils pair with pros for jazz performance
The News Review:
- Pupils pair with pros for jazz performance
- Gary Burton: Forging Ahead
- Weekend To-Dos
- Benny Goodman’s music still swings
- Carleton’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos to Perform in Concert
Pupils pair with pros for jazz performance
Colts Neck News Transcript
“The main thing is that we are getting jazz into their minds” Mintel said of the opportunity to work with the students. He said many students have heard of jazz but once they actually experience it they have a new appreciation for the genre. The quartet explains the concept of jazz music in a way that is easy for the young people to comprehend Mintel said. When the professional musicians sit down with the school’s jazz band members they will review jazz improvisation and discuss how to listen to jazz. Mintel said the professional musicians will also review the roles of the instruments that are used to produce jazz music. The quartet will rehearse the vocal pieces with the Royalaires prior to the evening’s performance. “I am extremely excited to have musicians of this caliber coming in to work with our students.
Gary Burton: Forging Ahead
All About Jazz
I got my first record contract from Chet Atkins who saw me playing in a local club in Nashville and who decided to talk to RCA and get them to offer me a long-term contract” says this renowned musician born in a small Indiana town less than 300 miles from the country music capital of the world. The musician speaking isn’t Crystal Gayle the popular country singer who was raised in an Indiana small town nor is it John Mellencamp one of Indiana’s favored songs who sang famously about “being born in a small town. ”The musician speaking earlier this year from his Massachusetts home is Gary Burton one of the giant names in jazz music and education for decades and winner this past February of his sixth Grammy award for his album of duets with. Burton now 66 has led outstanding bands played with a myriad of jazz greats and churned out acclaimed albums over a career that started in the late 1950s when he was in his mid-teens. He’s also been a major figure in jazz education teaching at Berklee College of Music eventually becoming its deal of curriculum and later advancing to become its chief operating officer in the process touching the lives of hundreds of aspiring musicians. He has discovered some major talent and nurtured young musicians who have gone on to major success.
Weekend To-Dos
Gresham utlook
Fridays and Saturdays. Blues and jazz music. Arts and Culture“Pacific Scrolls” — 8 a.
Benny Goodman’s music still swings
San Francisco Chronicle
tmpl –>Seventy years later that music still makes your head spin feet move and spirits rise. The sound of Benny Goodman – the blazing clarinet soaring above a riotously rocking big band or dancing with thrilling fluency through improvised trio and quartet numbers – set off the swing fever that helped millions through the Depression and brought jazz to the forefront of American popular music. tmpl –> Images.
Carleton’s Jazz Ensemble and Jazz Combos to Perform in Concert
Carleton College News
The Jazz Ensemble directed by David Singley presents music both old and new playing pieces by Thad Jones Pat Metheny Jon LaBarbera Dean Sorenson and Singley himself. The Carleton Jazz Combos will also be featured as part of the performance. Singley holds degrees from Berkley College of Music and Indiana University and is an active performer of both pop and jazz music. He has performed in the orchestra for such Broadway shows as The Lion King Hairspray Chicago and Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat. He has also performed with the Indianapolis Symphony rchestra the Minnesota rchestra and has appeared on National Public Radio?s A Prairie Home Companion. He is a published composer and arranger of jazz music and has produced over a dozen jazz CDs including his 1997 solo album How My Heart Sings which is available at the Carleton Bookstore. The Carleton College Concert Hall is located at First Street and Winona Street in Northfield.
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