Jazz Colony 2019 - dates and forms

Check out the paperwork for this summer's improvisation workshop. Here's the pdf which I passed out on April 20 and 21, 2019. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoGR9KaGamTcF92Wkh3cjVnYjVDMUFlQW4tZDk0NjV6Y2dB/view?usp=sharing

EWHS -- Jazz Colony 2019 Plus:

We are gearing up and organizing for the 2019 EWHS Jazz Colony and related events.

This will be the 10th year of EWHS Jazz Colony!

Stay Tuned.

Peter Bennett

EWHS Jazz Colony Coordinator
425-299-1340


New EWHS Jazz Colony Local Puget Sound Jazz Events and Gigs Calendar:

EWHS Jazz Colony -- Local Puget Sound Jazz Calendar 2019

Also, to get you going, see one of my favorites:

Chris Potter playing with Snarky Puppy -- Crazy session and song

Chris Potter and Snarky Puppy Song

#8 - Dan Greenblatt - Blues Scales

Transcription Challenge due August 21 .. email to Dan Greenblatt dlgreenblattathotmail.com

Double check these emails before you send so you can update the "at" with @ symbol

Even Though We Already Did a Blues
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vys76rp3kqX003VHN6TzZROHA4Mk9keWdNSE5mQzc1ZEFF/view?usp=sharing

1. JC 2018 Session # 8 Dan Greenblatt – Blues Scales and thoughts:      https://youtu.be/a9XAdk8tkUs
2. JC 2018 Session #8  Dan Greenblatt song with Paul Gabrielson and Nebee Yohannes:     https://youtu.be/ggdw5--RUcQ
3. 
   

Greenblatt Handout 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vys76rp3kqdXluYkN2R2hCSzNvRDdaWE5VdVliRHQ3QWh3/view?usp=sharing

No clinic on week #9 - Come early for "Surf Dogs" heavy snack

Send a video of the Head to Solar to Mr. Chappelle 

Dan Chappelle <dan.chappelle.sfgatgmail.com>

#7 - Michael Glynn and Transcription

This weeks challenge for transcription (due August 14)
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzoGR9KaGamTa3ZCZFdDZ2gzcVlmc3ZkMk9HdndXa2pvZ0xZ

JC 2018 Session #7 – Glynn Presentation Part 1 – Transcription Tips.      https://youtu.be/xynG44aIfC4

JC 2018 Session #7 – Glynn Presentation Part 2 – Transcription tips.      https://youtu.be/rkNrgw4N8HA

Here's the link for Michael's handout

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vys76rp3kqNGtyeXNiZi00cjhuR0hveEp3NFJWdW52UWdZ/view?usp=sharing

Points from Tim Carey’s combo 8/7 

Red Clay- work on harmonies over the head and shed the solo changes. I recommend playing along with the Real Book track in the link before the next rehearsal.

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0Bwam0J98-LIOUkxXS3UwNjQzRUk

Practice your parts on Devil May Care, we need to get the sections tight especially behind vocals. 

Turn arounds we are focusing on

ii V I, ii V i, I vi ii V

From Rodney:

Week 7 notes 

• Be ready for rehearsal
• Use the Dorian scale when you see F#-7 B7 or a minor two five, use the Dorian scale of the home key. Or the mixolydian  scale of the home key. 
• Tritone substitutions are important to learn and are a common thing you see
• F#-7 B7 in the first four bars of little boat, it is a 2 5 into a major key of Bb. The B7 is a tri tone substitution for the usual chord that leads to Bb which is F. 
• A minor two five chord progression is usually a X-7b5 and a X7 leading into a minor chord. (X is a just a place holder for any chord.)
• Hadly Caliman exercise 
• You have to be fluid In both major and minor to be good.
• The music is gonna take you to the places where you aren’t good at.
• In a shuffle the bass player should always suggest the triplet feel. Even if I’m not playing a triplet the feel should be there 
• A blues can change and morphs into many different chord changes and ways to go through them
• It’s a chord progression because it’s going somewhere. It has a plot. This is  a idea that is repeated and should be kept in mind.  
• Miles Davis “I found out your ears could only take you so far. Time to study chords and scales” 

This week, Milo's combo worked on two different blues. First, we worked on John Coltrane's Equinox. We worked on different scales and methods of improvising over a Db blues. Then we worked on Bird blues, and learned the first few bars of Bongo Beep. The homework for the week is to learn the rest of the head. https://youtu.be/QGLhSx5DMP4


The Marina Albero combo played through our set of Sea Jazz tunes. We also talked about shedding Bobplicity for next time. Please shed! We also worked on our new tune "Limbo Jazz". We may add an additional tune for the gig. Perhaps Doxy or something similar. 

Marina Albero - Tension and Release

Huge Thanks to Marina for the inspiring session. Here are the videos.

Sorry I'm behind on the blog.

1.  JC 2018 Session #6 – Marina Albero – Learn by Ear – part 1 -- :  https://youtu.be/gTboPxiHnBo

2. JC 2018 Session #6 – Marina Albero – Learn by Ear – Part 2 :  https://youtu.be/9J0GubkMycE

3.  JC 2018 Session #6 – Marina Albero – Dulcimer Song:  https://youtu.be/R1Vb524OYo4

This week's challenge was Summertime and next week (Michael Glynn) is Bluesette by Toots Thielmans. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oi4G6UmYK9U send your videos to King Dawidalle 

kdawidalle17 at my.whitworth.edu 

Greenblatt transcription challenge is on the way.

#5 - Paul Gabrielson - Practice

Thanks to Paul Gabrielson for the great session on practice.

1.        JC Session #5 – Paul Gabrielson part 1:  https://youtu.be/plKdqjy_g2A

2.        JC Session #5 – Paul Gabrielson part 2:  https://youtu.be/ltzSqxzeYAA

3.        JC Session #5 – Paul Gabrielson Song with Marina, Milo and Dan:    https://youtu.be/aLDq63ZbDP8

Here is this week's transcription challenge ...

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoGR9KaGamTRUx2dHZEdFZFdkVaV0F6akJjOHB4MzNpeXBv/view?usp=sharing

Rehearsal notes from Rimmy

Rehearsal Summary: 
worked on time feel and increasing the tempo on After You’ve Gone as well as the bridge on When Lights Are Low. 

Notes: 
internalizing time is just as important if not, more important than knowing the changes and form to a tune. 
Though nobody has perfect time, everyone can swing if they really feel what they’re playing and be confident with their own time.

Exercises:
(For time feel) Come up with a lick and stick with it throughout the tune and try to start it on different parts of the beat and worry only about your time and feel throughout the tune.

(For learning the form of a tune) play the triads of each chord on one two, and three, then when you are comfortable, play a different inversion, and then when you’re comfortable with that, play multiple versions throughout the form in a specific rotation so that you’re forced to think.

This from King

Today we took how high the moon and reviewed Tims lesson on side stepping, and closures. We also did excersises using the flat 9 in the chords of how high the moon in four note patterns. We then took the chart Sandu and talked about the minor and major blues scales. We broke the two scales down realzing they werent really scales at all just notes that could be used when making a blues line. All other notes including individual homework assignments will be on Tims google drive. 

Rodney's notes from Greenblatt group

Week 5 

• Practice chord tones from the root up
• Then Switch the order of the way you play the chord tones.
• The hippest pick up is on the and of 3
• You can do a lot with chord tones if you don’t start at the bottom. You do a lot more with chord tones if you don’t play then the same way every time. 
• Leaps of sixths and sevenths are hip and occur a lot
• You can play chord tones in any order and also you can leave them out. 
• Playing Good unison is hard but extremely crucial to sound mature. It is also quiet difficult without like instruments. Especially rhythm and horns
• Write notes into your parts that you like. You should write it in especially if you have blowing changes
• Pay attention to the chord changes and the changing notes. Chords changes a progression and they have leading tones and things like that. 
• Learn turn around for both horn players and rhythm players. If someone gets lost, then they will be able to hear where they are through turn around and chord changes. 
• Teaching is about the student and not about the teaching musician. 
• Virtuoso playing and virtuoso playing is completely different. You can be an amazing musician but not an amazing teacher. that does not mean you can’t be both 
• Devote 5 minutes to only vocabulary. Learning it and developing how much vocabulary you have.
• Practice the process of transcription

#4 - Milo Petersen - cross rhythm patterns

WEEK #4 Challenge!

Next week's transcription assignment is Bluesville by Sonny Red with solo by Jimmy Heath - email your recordings to Mr. Greenblatt

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzoGR9KaGamTUURBQkVNekNxaWYwajBwcDdmWEFmMUUzZFB3/view?usp=sharing

Next week's tune to learn is Yardbird Suite by Charlie Parker https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HmroWIcCNUI

Send your videos to Dylan Alrud-Faltisco da.faltisco@icloud.com 

Here are the Milo Petersen videos from July 17th, 2018

Part 1:  https://youtu.be/9G90_aM-bqY

Part 2:  https://youtu.be/gCaWTscUAms

Here's the link to the worksheet mentioned in the videos

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B0vys76rp3kqRHM2ZHplZWZyUE9NSE5hNjM4OUpwZ1BlMVY0/view?usp=sharing

Summary of Combo Rehearsals

This from Jansen Leggett for the Michael Glynn group ...

Jeep’s Blues notes

Ending on bar 11 beat 2 

Everyone prepare to solo on this tune.

After You’ve Gone

Natalie took the melody and sounded great. 

The group is still struggling with the form of this tune, I think they could fix that by just listening to the tune. 

Find ways to simplify the chords

Bb- to Eb7, leave some space beforehand to prepare yourself. Look ahead, knowing where you are going is more important than where you are.

Vibes and guitar, practice physically taking breaths as if you are a horn player. When transcribing horn players, breath when they breath. 

When Lights Are Low

Listen to Miles recording. He didn’t even play the bridge. Bridge is 2-5-1s in Ab, B, and D. 2 measures each, then turn around into F (really just a stretched out 2-5 into F)

First 3 1/2 bars of each A, you can just hang out in F.

The Things We Did Last Summer

Keep straight 8ths and swing separate, even though bass has triplets. Solo sections are split in half. 

Trumpet pick up notes into 147 are 3 half notes in the new tempo.

Hunter set the new tempo perfectly in the rehearsal

July 17th summary; Milo Peterson group - submitted by Joel Steinke

Sarah and Anthony were able to make this colony, so we worked on our two tunes, My Little Suede Shoes, and Solar. 

Similar to last time, we worked on deepening our understanding of the chord changes with our patterns and talked shop on various grooves (Rumba and Son Claves). Both Sarah and Anthony had to leave early, so Jai, Joel, and Milo talked about the lesser-known Harmonic Major scale and its applicable uses for the last hour of Colony. 

(Tim Carey out) - 7/17
Dylan Allrud-Faltisco & King Dawidalle w Jack Roben 


Tim Carey called out sick so King and I led the combo with help from guitarist Jack Roben (alum of EW and University of North Texas) and some later guidance from Mr. B. 

We rehearsed Tim Carey’s arrangements but spent our time mainly on comprehending the chord progressions of the songs. The benefit to vertical lines - 1 3 5 7 9 in different orders - as opposed to scale lines, is the better way to outline each harmony in the changes for the benefits of learning the harmonies, building lines and running those lines in different orders (aka permutations), and as we go forward, collecting this knowledge to start designing well-informed and longer lines over several bars/changes. We started focusing on the latter skill a couple weeks ago when we drilled chord tones over major and minor ii V I ’s. 

Jordu - Clifford Brown and Max Roach - https://youtu.be/GslhRUBgXNI

How Hight the Moon 
Sonny Stitt - https://youtu.be/A_D1kdI9j3k
Sonny Criss - https://youtu.be/nyzREChIcYs

Summertime - Miles Davis and Gil Evans - https://youtu.be/pCp4Yb8NaxA - Dylan AF