Teens jazzed about camp
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- Teens jazzed about camp
- Best Free August Events
- Jazz festival gives first Wallingford performance
- Take Five With Quintin Gerard W.
- The Blue People
- Music Review | Freddy Cole
- AAJ’s Traffic Continues to Climb
Teens jazzed about camp
Pocono Record
“This is an incredible program” she said adding that her jazz experience doesn’t go much further than preaching at the jazz festival. “Music is not one of my God-given talents but I love to listen to it. “Camp leaders hope the progress students make translates into an interest in jazz music. It’s how Chamberlain got involved — when he was 14 he went to a jazz camp hosted by local musician Phil Woods. “It made me the musician I am today” he said. Now he thinks it’s his responsibility to keep it going. “Jazz is an art form that’s passed down” Chamberlain said.
Best Free August Events
Washington Post
Save to Go ut List. Halley Shoenberg’s music which draws from influences that include Charlie Parker Count Basie and Pat Metheny is that perfect soundtrack for Aug. Save to Go ut List.
Jazz festival gives first Wallingford performance
Meriden Record-Journal
“I play a lot of different kinds of music. This is an all-star band that has a collective energy the audience sends back” he said. Fryer said he first heard jazz music when he was 15 and has played it for about 35 years. “It’s a joyous music” he said. Sugarfoot band member Peter Csere a piano major at Western Connecticut State University said the band plays two or three times a month at a variety of venues ranging from restaurants private events and festivals. He said he most enjoys playing festivals because they have professional sound systems and pianos that are tuned. The youth band is primarily funded by the festival’s board of directors under the direction of Art Hovey of the Galvanized Jazz Band.
Take Five With Quintin Gerard W.
All About Jazz
My style is something of a hybrid of jazz funk blues and gospel. For me the ideas concept and approach to playing are strictly unique in the sense that I intentionally did not put on records to cop solos from them to learn how to imitate. I always said to myself that “This style has already been created so why should I imitate this?”I forced myself to learn how to express and play jazz music differently and although some might consider my style of playing inferior to the jazz tradition they will have to admit that it is executed well and that it is a style that is unique only to Quintin Gerard W. !Your teaching approach: I teach my students the truth up front. I don’t try to waste their time by teaching them music from a philosophical standpoint. I get them to the scales they need to learn give them the theory with a practical application on how it works and then I require them to play it for me right now! I don’t send them away confused until the next lesson. Your dream band: That’s a loaded question isn’t it? I can’t name names because there are way too many people that I would like to have worked with or would like to currently work with.
The Blue People
All About Jazz
The future and the past coalesced into a moment of improvisation. Pianist John Esposito’s The Blue People seems to unite all the aspects of the color blue. The music on the album has the sweep of history while still being able to sound totally fresh. It’s pure challenging jazz music which ought to have a broad appeal to those who have grown tired of straight standards and worn-out clichés but who still want music within a recognizable historical frame. Nevertheless Esposito is a well-kept secret to the initiated few who speak of his music in glowing terms. To those in the know his Sunjump label has become a reliable source for music that connects the threads of past and present with both new and historical recordings being published. The Blue People is one of the label’s most important releases in that it presents all original material from Esposito where diverse influences—ranging from African music modern composition and classical baroque to swing bop and avant-garde—melt together into a forceful coherent expression.
Music Review | Freddy Cole
New York Times
Addressing a dinner-hour crowd at the Jazz Standard on Thursday he described his own show as “an invitation to relaxation” — something to take the edge off after say a long day of shopping or “whatever it is you ladies do. ” Skip to next paragraph.
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AAJ’s Traffic Continues to Climb
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