Roaring Fork Jazz Workshop

I'll be facilitating a "Survey of Jazz Styles" class at the Third Street Center, Carbondale, CO., June 16th, 2011, from 6:30-8:30. For information on attending, click here. The following, is a tentative outline for the class.

A necessarily succinct survey of jazz styles, with guest, Bob Levey.

We'll listen to and put a little context to the following styles of jazz:

• Blues (call and response)
• • Mississippi Fred McDowell; "Soon ONe Mornin'"
• Traditional Jazz (Hot Jazz)
• • Louis Armstrong; "West End Blues"
• Swing
• • Duke Ellington; "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Don't Have That Swing"
  • Coleman Hawkins; "Body And Soul"
• Bebop
• • Bob Levey; Stories about Stan Levey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, etc.
  • Bebop; Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Levey, Stan Getz, etc
  • Charlie Parker; Just Friends
• Hard Bop
• • Doodlin'; Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
  • Joy Spring; Clifford Brown - performed by Bob and Tim
  • Giant Steps; John Coltrane
• Modal Jazz
• • So What; Miles Davis
• Avant Gaurd/Free Jazz
• • Acknowledgment; John Coltrane
• Jazz Fusion
• • Birdland; Weather Report
• Some of today's artists and their "amalgamated" music
• • Joe Lovano
  • Tim Hagans
  • Kenny Werner

My notes on Jazz Styles - click here.
My Diigo Jazz Appreciation list of links - click here.
My Diigo Webslide show - click here.
My Jazz Appreciation Bibliography - click here.

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Been awhile since I posted any session notes. In any case, we've been hard at it this spring.

Last night we dove in to a couple of the less used keys, and practiced the Dominant 7th bebop scale starting on the 2nd scale degree. We explored ways of getting to a chord tone, delaying the deed until the descending portion of the exercise, then using the "enclosure" technique (enclosing the 3rd) to "resolve" the scale/chord. Here's an example of an idea that we played with:

We took that idea through all the keys, then through several keys of blues. In our exploration, we relied on our musical ears to confirm the "rightness" of a particular solution. There's certainly mathematics that would back up our appropriate solutions, I believe, but we'll leave that to all those civic music engineers out there.

Thanks to Terry Bannon for helping out with his beautiful bass line/chordal accompaniments.

Finally, the attendees agreed that having participated, they were less "square". Those who weren't there remain square. ;-)

Click read more for the music schedule at Maroon Creek Restaurant.

Click read more for the music schedule at Maroon Creek Restaurant.

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We'll be firing up the Roaring Fork Jazz workshop again in late September or early October 2010. Until then, keep woodshedding those bebop scales!