Sunday August 22
Making The Band: Do It Yourself
A two-part workshop on music and marketing. Part 1 begins with a brief performance by the trio followed by a demonstration of various arranging techniques. Making a good arrangement requires a combination of creativity and restraint. Whether starting with just a groove, a melody, or even an emotion, a band can develop ideas through experimentation and review. The trio demonstrates exercises they use to generate exciting new ways of interacting. Part 2 of the workshop focuses on the business of music covering topics including managing a recording session, conducting a photo shoot, and putting together a professional press kit.
Over the past few years 21-year-old Reider, bassist Jeff Picker, and drummer Jake Goldbas have had great success. In addition to releasing an album, the trio has toured all over the country performing at prestigious venues including Yoshi's, Kuumbwa, and the Jazz Gallery.
11:45 am - 1:45 pm
SAM REIDER $30 Jazzschool students/$45 others
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Beyond the Blues Scale
Designed for players accustomed to using a single scale for each song they improvise over, this interactive workshop introduces participants to the rich experience of improvising over changing harmony. The leap from jamming over a chord or a blues scale to playing meaningfully over moving chords can be overwhelming; this workshop breaks it down through progressive exercises that allow students to HEAR and FEEL the changes of harmony, paving the way for students to play over chord changes as a natural expression of emotion rather than an intellectual exercise. Participants learn to improvise over a 12-bar blues like a jazz musician, bringing out the unique sound of each part of the blues form, rather than treating it all as an undifferentiated whole. Prerequisites: knowledge of major and minor scales and facility on a melodic instrument.
11am - 4pm (with a lunch break)
ANTON SCHWARTZ $60 Jazzschool students/$75 others
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(Week Three) ConnectedVoice Workshop Series
In order to interpret vocal jazz repertoire with freedom and musicality, the jazz singer
needs to have a solid grasp of certain grounding skills:
• a good sense of rhythm and groove
• a basic knowledge of chords — how they sound and how they move
• a great sense of pitch
In this workshop, students focus on “physicalizing” time and groove in order to internalize
them. Class explores 7th chords, how to sing them, hear them and follow them
as they move in order to interpret jazz repertoire in relation to the chord progression.
Additionally, students are introduced to fun applied ear training exercises.
11 am - 2 pm July 25, August 8, August 22
(3 Weeks) $150 (2 Weeks) $120 (1 Week) $75
SANDY CRESSMAN
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Saturday September 11
Janis Siegel Workshop 
The Jazzschool Vocal Department is very pleased to present Manhattan Transfer's 9-time Grammy Award winning vocalist Janis Siegel. With over ten recordings as a solo artist and over twenty recordings with the Transfer, Ms. Siegel is one of the most successful jazz singers of her generation. Her down-to-earth spirit and soaring, crystalline, easily recognizable voice has led to an
international performing career spanning three decades.
Noon - 3pm
$100/auditors $50
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