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2012 SUMMER JAZZ CAMPS & WORKSHOPS
BAND CAMPS
It's time we observe the return of summer
and the celebrated assembly of music
students heading to summer band camp.
Renown music educators direct the rewards of
week-long jazz studies programs at Interlochen
Arts Academy (Bill Sears-jazz band)
outside Traverse City, Aquinas College
(Paul Brewer-jazz band) in
Grand Rapids, and Western Michigan University
(Steve Zegree-vocal jazz; Keith Hall-jazz drum set) in
Kalamazoo.
At Wayne State University in Detroit,
professor Chris
Collins (artistic
director, Detroit Jazz Festival, August
31-Sept. 3, 2012) directs JazzWeek
@Wayne featuring an intensive
one-week jazz workshop for 40 select
scholarship high school students.
For information behind all band camp
excitement click -here-.
TRITONE
JAZZ FANTASY CAMP AT INTERLOCHEN
Sunday-Friday, June 17-22, 2012
Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen, MI
Interlochen Center for the Arts once
again presents the Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp, a 6
day jazz music camp designed exclusively for
adult amateur musicians, ages 21 and over.
Instrumental and vocal musicians of varied skill
and experience levels will participate in
classes for big band, combos, improvisation and
theory, master classes, plus formal evening
concerts and open jam sessions.
- Clay
Jenkins, trumpeter with
Stan Kenton, Harry James, Buddy
Rich, Count Basie
- Jim
Pugh, trombonist with Woody
Herman, Chick Corea, Steely Dan
- Jose'
Encarnacion, saxophonist
with Bob Mintzer, Tito Puente,
Danilo Perez
- Jim
Fox, guitarist with Frank
Sinatra Jr., Woody Herman, Bette
Midler
- Bill
Carrothers, pianist with
Freddie Hubbard, James Moody, Buddy
Franco
- Ike
Sturm, bassist with Gene
Bertoncini, Maria Schneider, Bobby
McFerrin
- Steve
Houghton, drummer with
Woody Herman, Toshiko Akiyoshi, Gary
Burton
- Darmon
Meader, vocalist/musical
director with New York Voices
- Fred
Sturm, conductor/composer,
Eastman School of Music, Lawrence
University (Appleton, WI)
For more information:
Tritone
Jazz Program Overview
Tritone
Jazz Fantasy Camps
JAZZ @KERRYTOWN
KCH
Jazz Masters Series: Concert
& Conversation with Rodney
Whitaker
Rodney
Whitaker, bass
Tad
Weed, piano
Kurt Krahnke, bass
Sean Dobbins, drums
Friday, May 18, 2012; 8pm
Kerrytown
Concert House, Ann Arbor
415 N. Fourth Avenue | 734-769-2999
http://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com
Rodney
Whitaker
(l-r, Tad
Weed, Kurt Krahnke, Sean Dobbins)
The trio welcomes jazz master,
celebrated bassist, and Michigan State
University jazz studies director Rodney
Whitaker for the annual Jazz
Masters Series. The audience gets
treated to an evening of jazz
accompanied by informal dialogue with
the artists, offering a rare glimpse
into the artists’ musical lives as
jazz practitioners.
WEST
MICHIGAN BIG BAND SWING
Grand
Rapids
Jazz Orchestra
Experience
the
GRJO this coming weekend:
Sunday, May 20, 2012; 5:30 - 7:30pm
Founders Brewing Co., 235 Grandville Ave.,
S.W., Grand Rapids
Enjoy the live webcast: http://www.grjo.com
Ph: (616) 776-1195
Free admission!
In its third decade the
Grand Rapids Jazz Orchestra remains a leader
for large ensembles pushing musical
boundaries in the thriving West Michigan
jazz scene. Comprised of jazz educators from
the region, GRJO reliably charges up
audiences who thirst for top-notch
musicianship and soloing, notably infectious
improv and interplay served up by director
and drummer Tim Froncek, tenor
saxophonists Bob Nixon and Greg Marsden,
trumpeter Dan
Jacobs, pianist Steve Talaga,
and trombonist Mike McLeod. The band also
garners gracious applause by introducing new
compositions by many leading composers and
arrangers.
OU JAZZ
WEEKEND WORKSHOP
Jazz
Workshop featuring Regina Carter
and OU Jazz Quartet
Saturday-Sunday, May 19-20, 2012; 10am
- 5pm
Sunday Concert: 4pm, Varner
Hall, Room 134 (FREE, open to the
public)
Oakland University, Rochester
Ph: (248) 370-2030
Join famed Detroit-bred jazz violinist
Regina
Carter and the OU Jazz
Quartet (Miles
Brown, bass; Mark
Stone, percussion; Sean
Dobbins, drums, Steve
Brown, guitar) for two days
of jazz education activities including
combo rehearsals, listening classes,
steel drum workshops and more.
Non-traditional jazz instruments are
welcome. The workshop concludes on
Sunday with a free combo concert open
to the public. Workshop fee:
$60.00
THE
GILMORE RETURNS
Irving S.
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
April 26 through May 12, 2012 - Kalamazoo
Website:
http://www.thegilmore.org/festival/
The biennial Irving S.
Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
starts April 26 and runs
through May 12. World-class piano
artistry commands a spotlight including jazz
and classical
performances. Multiple venues in Kalamazoo, Battle
Creek, Grand Rapids, Vicksburg, and
East Lansing provide varied presentations
throughout West Michigan.
Jazz Headliners:
Aaron Diehl
Alfredo
Rodriguez
Brad Mehldau
Diana Krall
Gary Burton
Geri Allen
Ran Blake
Robert
Glasper
For festival information, click -here-
CLASSROOM CORNER
Question
& Answer: Wynton Marsalis
Presenter:
Wynton
Marsalis,
Artistic
Director,
Jazz
at
Lincoln
Center-New York
 "Jazz
is an art form," trumpeter Wynton
Marsalis
has said,"that gives us
a painless way of
understanding ourselves." Few
contemporary jazz musicians
have stated the case for jazz
more articulately than
Marsalis, and few have made
their art more welcoming to
audiences young and old. The
son of a jazz pianist and a
brother to five siblings,
three of whom are also
musicians, he was born in New
Orleans in 1961, and by his
late teens he had earned a
reputation among both jazz and
classical musicians. At 19, he
left New York's Juilliard
School to join drummer Art
Blakey, and two years later he
became the first musician to
win Grammy awards in both the
classical and jazz categories.
In 1987 he co-founded Jazz at
Lincoln Center in New York,
and, as its artistic director,
he has led its resident big
band, the Lincoln Center Jazz
Orchestra, in concerts,
clinics, workshops, and
parades in every part of the
world. The first jazz musician
to win the Pulitzer Prize (for
his 1997 oratorio 'Blood on
the Fields'), Marsalis makes
the case that jazz "provides a
way to look in wonderment at
the world around us," helping
us to "see and hear the many
forms and concepts that unite
us all."
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The Jazz Big Band: Ingredients
to Assure Good Ensemble Performances
Presenter:
Scott
Cowan, Western Michigan
University
 Review a 3-part music
education primer by WMU jazz
master educator-trumpeter Scott
Cowan, a series of articles which
originally appeared in the International
Trumpet
Guild Journal quarterly
magazine. Cowan gives an
insightful look at the top 10
essential elements he says enable
a solid foundation for achieving
high returns in big band
performance and music awareness
benefitting students within a
large ensemble framework.
Must reading for jazz
students,
educators,
and
all
others
seeking
a
greater understanding of the
dynamics at play, big band format
at work.
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PDF 55
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Access
information
on
music
departments
and
schools
of music on
our Education page, featuring educators
and
jazz
studies programs across Michigan.
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