Combo Reports:
Dolphin Dance - July 9th, 2024
Like a fishing lure, the first day of this year’s Jazz Colony left a “buoyant” impression on everyone. Despite the hardships the Music program is going through, the students are still displaying excitement and eagerness to learn and play music.
We are Dolphin Dance.
Our group is comprised of a great selection of young musicians and instrumentation. We shared our recent interests in music, and I’m happy to say that everyone in our group has good taste.
Dolphin Dance - Herbie Hancock
Take away: Mr.Steinke insists the Jazz we play needs a little give to it in order to push ahead. It’s a “weird and mystical” practice; “the more we try, the worse it gets.”
Suggestions:
-watch “Effortless Mastery” by Kenny Werner on Youtube
The group learned the melody and soloed over Sandu (Eb Blues). We sounded killing, had great ideas…but we can always get better!!
-(Optional) learn Sandu melody and listen to recording by Clifford Brown
- on topic of simple but effective improvisation, listen to Wes Montgomery (especially on the Blues)
Great first day! - Don Tran
Good Bait Combo
Good Bait - Dizzy Gillespie
We started learning ‘Avalon’ by ear. We reviewed the G major scale (for Bb instruments) to aid in transcription. We learned the melody 4 to 8 bars at a time, then practiced each section with the rhythm section experimenting with different grooves. We did some interval recognition work to help with more difficult passages. We were able to learn the entire melody. In the last few minutes we played a B-flat blues, with each horn playing a different blues riff over and over. Mr. Bergevin joined us at the end on piano.
Submitted by Scott Swanberg
Wave!
-After introductions, we set goals for what we want to get out of colony this summer! Many of us mentioned learning more times and improvisation practice.
-We played Centerpiece together and figured out some harmony parts and endings. Then, we did some call and response with a drum genius backing track. The first call and response we did was with the major pentatonic and blues scales, and then we played chord tones for the second round.
-Finally, we ended it off by exploring the song "Wave." We want to learn it for the gig so Brant simplified the solo section chord changes for us to practice with. We used the pentatonic scale to solo over the simplified changes, taking one chorus, then trading 4s and 2s.
- Alex Weber
"I'm Gonna Go Fishin',"
We learned the song by Duke Ellington which is a minor blues in 6/4. We discussed the chord changes, being:
|C-7 |C-7 |C-7 |C-7 |
|C-7 |C-7 |C-7 |C-7 |
|F-7 |F-7 |C-7 |C-7 |
|G7 |F 7 |C-7 |C-7 |
We also began to learn the head to "Maiden Voyage"
We also learned that D-sus (D-11) is a harmonically static chord, meaning that it does not call for resolution like a dominant chord would. - Liam Salas
We are the Body and Sole Combo!
We started off our session with introducing ourselves and answering a few questions about our goals and interests, we covered our musical and non musical interests and had some nice quality bonding time. The students had some great set goals like wanting to figure out how to develop a solo and sing through your instruments.
After a long talk we started to dig into some charts. We played Ornette Colemans “When Will the Blues Leave?” Where we all took a few choruses and blew over the blues, we discussed the turn arounds and how to end the song. We then read another chart by Hank Mobley entitled “A Dab of This And That”, this one was a little confusing! We had to go over the intro and interlude between solos and the outro, but we had a blast.
After playing we had a bit more discussion on what tunes we want to play for the summer and what kind of vibe we want to catch for our set. The students were very eager on recommending tunes they wanted to learn, making this even more exciting. Finally, for homework we assigned that they all learn the melody to "Yardbird Suite” by Charlie Parker.
We started off our session with introducing ourselves and answering a few questions about our goals and interests, we covered our musical and non musical interests and had some nice quality bonding time. The students had some great set goals like wanting to figure out how to develop a solo and sing through your instruments.
After a long talk we started to dig into some charts. We played Ornette Colemans “When Will the Blues Leave?” Where we all took a few choruses and blew over the blues, we discussed the turn arounds and how to end the song. We then read another chart by Hank Mobley entitled “A Dab of This And That”, this one was a little confusing! We had to go over the intro and interlude between solos and the outro, but we had a blast.
After playing we had a bit more discussion on what tunes we want to play for the summer and what kind of vibe we want to catch for our set. The students were very eager on recommending tunes they wanted to learn, making this even more exciting. Finally, for homework we assigned that they all learn the melody to "Yardbird Suite” by Charlie Parker.
Max Bartron
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