February 2007 Archives

Starting next week, March 5th, 2007, we'll be hosting a jam session at Dos Gringos, in Carbondale, from 6:00 until 8:30. The session will, hopefully be a bi-weekly event. At 6:00 the "house rhythm section" (Tim Fox, pn.; Mark Gray, bs; and Bob Levey, dr.) will play a short set. At 6:30, high school students will be invited to join the session for a set. After the students (7:15?), adults will be invited to join the session until 8:30, or so.

Here's a short list of tunes we may choose from (the following files are PDFs. Sorry, you'll have to supply the transposition):

Bernie's Tune - Theolonius Monk

CTA Jimmy Heath

All Blues - Miles Davis

The Jody Grind - Horace Silver

Just Friends - Klenner and Lewis

What Is This Thing Called Love - Cole Porter

Whisper Not - Benny Golson

We may be able to keep our "workshop atmosphere" at this venue... we'll see. Hope to see you all there!

If you haven't already, check out "shared bookmarks" on del.icio.us. Get an account (free) post and share your bookmarks. Then, your bookmarks are available from any computer that's on the internet! I don't save bookmarks locally, anymore.

Here are my bookmarks related to jazz:

http://del.icio.us/tdfoxdale/jazz/

This site's technology has become perhaps my most useful internet tool.

Check out Artist's Share:

'A place where fans fund the projects of their favorite artists in exchange for the privilege of "participating" in the creative process.'

One of the features that you "Jazz Workshopers" should be interested in is the "online lesson" component.  The artists regularly submit these lessons in conjunction with the music they're most recently recording.

http://www.artistsshare.com/

Some of the artist's featured are:

• Kenny Werner
• Brian Lynch
• Jim Hall
• Maria Schneider
• Chris Potter
• Ingrid Jensen

And more.

It's a pretty awesome concept, and free to join.