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Post by dsonyay on Nov 18, 2018 21:33:33 GMT -5
I've been taking some college classes to burn up the rest of my GI Bill .. so I've been able to finally schedule a Jazz History course for the spring semester (starting in Jan).
Met the professor and he's a big jazz lover and plays jazz with a quartet out in town at a few small clubs.. anyway he invited me to sit in for this week's classes because he's got a jazz drummer coming in to demo jazz drumming styles.. looking forward to that.
I'm excited to take the course too. Should be fun
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Post by Boomzilla on Nov 19, 2018 2:31:35 GMT -5
AWESOME! Wish I could take the course too...
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Post by drtrey3 on Nov 19, 2018 8:57:02 GMT -5
One of my best college courses was jazz. We had a great teacher, a flutist if I recall, and used the Smithsonian Collection of American Jazz. It really taught me a lot about song structure and such. A great use of time.
Trey
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Post by monkumonku on Nov 19, 2018 11:04:31 GMT -5
The two most interesting and favorite classes I had in college were about jazz (Music 132A and 132B, I believe), taught by Paul Tanner who played trombone in the Glenn Miller band. He had such great stories to tell and he had such a wonderful enthusiasm for the subject. He brought plenty of recordings and educated us in all things jazz plus entertained with his many anecdotes from his career with Miller.
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Post by geeqner on Nov 19, 2018 16:40:09 GMT -5
For those who don't get the chance to attend a class - Jazz.org (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's home page)
has some fun "Learn" links and YouTube vids
Listened to the one a while back explaining Count Basie and his musical evolution
(as he grew / gained exposure to other artists / moved to new places) for a young people's program (but it was still fun / informative as an adult)
Meanwhile - have fun with your classes!
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Post by dsonyay on Nov 19, 2018 20:17:54 GMT -5
The two most interesting and favorite classes I had in college were about jazz (Music 132A and 132B, I believe), taught by Paul Tanner who played trombone in the Glenn Miller band. He had such great stories to tell and he had such a wonderful enthusiasm for the subject. He brought plenty of recordings and educated us in all things jazz plus entertained with his many anecdotes from his career with Miller. Sounds like the kind of class I'd live as well. I was told the musician teaching my class was superb and was the one to have for jazz. |
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Post by dsonyay on Nov 19, 2018 20:18:54 GMT -5
For those who don't get the chance to attend a class - Jazz.org (Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra's home page) has some fun "Learn" links and YouTube vids Listened to the one a while back explaining Count Basie and his musical evolution (as he grew / gained exposure to other artists / moved to new places) for a young people's program (but it was still fun / informative as an adult) Meanwhile - have fun with your classes! Thanks.. need to check out that site |
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Post by dsonyay on Nov 21, 2018 18:56:55 GMT -5
The class was yesterday.. the drummer was very good. He actually demonstrated bongos .. but he's a professional percussiobist and jas done a lot of session work for popular R&B artists amd a few jazz musicians..
I cant remember his name, but he's a local guy .. he was very nice and answered yons of questions.. he also got everyone in a circle .. gave each of us some sort of percussion piece, and got us into a rythym to play alond with his bongo playing. I had a wooden frog and stick that made a croaking sound.. lol.. had a good time.
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