WORKSHOP

• 11:00 - 11:50

  Incorporating Blues in your Jazz playing

  Randy Johnston: Guitar

  Incorporating Blues in your Jazz playing The workshop will cover various uses of Blues scales and inflections to enhance improvisation over several types of jazz tunes, and will include Blues phrases for the students to learn.

• 13:00 - 13:50

  Jazz Drums in a wider context

  Henry Cole: Drums

  This session will look at ways to introduce drum and percussion concepts from a wide range of musical genres into Jazz.

• 14:00 - 14:50

  Improvising and Composing

  Kevin Hays: Piano

  Kevin will discuss his approach to these two related but functionally different aspects of musical development.

• 15:00 - 15:50

  The all around modern musician

  Will Vinson: Saxophone

  Will will talk about the various roles that are required of musicians these days: bandleader, sideman, composer, arranger, educator, and take questions on ways to develop aspects of one's musicianship that are lacking.

• 16:00 – 16:40

  Alfredo RodrÍguez:Piano

  In this workshop Alfredo Rodriguez will explain and demonstrate various aspect of his approach to jazz piano playing. Topics may range from the basic of jazz playing to the stylistic issue regarding his particular jazz style.

• 14:00 - 14:50

  Developing a great bass line

  Orlando le Fleming: Double bass

  Orlando will talk about and demonstrate techniques he's developed to help him generate the ideal bass line for any situation, such as walking, funk bass lines etc, discussing harmony, rhythm, comping principles and use of space.

• 15:00 - 15:50

  The Rhythm Of Jazz

  Mike Moreno: Guitar

  Comping and ensemble playing. Mike will discuss issues relating to comping on the guitar vs piano, and finding your role in...

• 16:00 – 16:40

  Munir Hossn : Double Bass
  Gene Coye: Drums

  Munir Hossn and Gene Coye will explain and demonstrate about the role of bassist and drummer in jazz ensemble of various styles, including from traditional jazz to a more modern and latin style.

• 11:00 - 11:50

  Enrico Zanisi's workshops

  Enrico Zanisi: Piano

  Enrico Zanisi's workshops are mainly focused on improvisational technics and the development of creative playing, especially when dealing with a specific musical material. Learning how to improvise means knowing the musical codes that allow us to to express ourselves, each time with a new approach. A jazz musician, an improviser, has to carefully pay attention to many details, depending on the context. For this reason the study of improvisation is essential, as well as the listening of the great masters or the constant practice, alone or in a band. Jazz is a language and needs time and passion, fun and dedication. In our language a musician is an improviser and a composer at the same time, and this should never be forgot.

• 13:00 - 13:50

  Hidden Implications: Rhythmic Structures in Jazz Improvisation

  Jared Sim: Saxophone

  Jared Sims and West Virginia University students will demonstrate how to use the rhythm of a tune for the melodic structure of improvisation.

• 14:00 - 14:40

  Lorenzo Tucci: Drums

  Lorenzo's workshop is intended for drummers of all ages of any level and style, various topics will be covered: technique, improvisation, polyrhythmy, coordination and independence and various styles: from Jazz to odd times to Funk. The goal of the Tucci's workshop is to identify and enanche the potential of each individual student making it creative and ready for any musical situation. Lorenzo Tucci will speaks about rhythm, with his drumsticks and drums, going from swing to 3/4 all in the air. For him:" The polyrhythmy is like a painting by Escher, "First you see a bird, then a fish". To play the drums like any other instrument, takes passion !!!

• 14:40 - 15:20

  Luca Bulgarelli: Bass

  Luca teaches at Conservatory of L'Aquila (Italy), on his double bass workshop he will explain some of the basic rules of the bass player sound: the use of the right hand and some notions about the right way to amplify an acoustic upright bass, the intonation (with the left hand), time, swing and the rhythmic approach in general. Other aspects that will be discussed are the comping and the soloing. Luca addresses all the fundamentals of double bass performance.

• 15:20 - 16:00

  Claudio Filippini: Piano

  Claudio Filippini is a refine teacher, he has students from all over the world that have found in his method an inspirational way of approaching piano. Each lesson is a journey. Filippini brings out the student's own voice and valorize their own sound in a complete work of harmony, melody and rhythm. In the lesson we will talk about different styles that have characterized the history of jazz piano, exercises of modern technique, how to re-harmonize a melody, exercises of independence between the two hands, how to develop creativity through evocative images but above all we will understand the joy of making music together transmitting a strong message to the audience by learning how to be communicative in the most simple and honest way.