UPDATED: APRIL 2, 2023
BRUBECK JAZZ SUMMIT / TAHOE
- https://classicaltahoe.org/brubeck-jazz-summit
- Play a blues melody of your choice and improvise for at least 3 choruses > BLUES for ALICE
- Play “In Your Own Sweet Way” by Dave Brubeck with melody and at least 1 chorus of improvisation.
- MILES DAVIS
- DAVE BRUBECK
- KEITH JARRETT
- KENNY GARRETT
- BILL EVANS
LA PHILHARMONIC / COLBURN (4/15)
https://www.laphil.com/learn/learning-programs/composer-fellowship-program
Musical Samples: At least two (2) of the following Options:
- An original music composition (Audio or video, MIDI accepted)
- An additional music composition (Audio or video, MIDI accepted)
- A performance on your instrument (Audio or video).
- ** LA Jazz Society @ Catalina’s > ANTHROPOLOGY:
- Solo Improvisation, or a short original composition, performed by you on your Instrument (video only)
- ** LA Jazz Society @ Catalina’s > BLUE SEVEN:
BARD JAZZ ACADEMY IN NEW YORK
https://www.jazz.org/summer-jazz-academy/bard/
- SAXOPHONES
- Video files #1-2: One selection from two of the four categories provided BELOW
- Video file #3: Provide the following:
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- 1. D and F Major scales, two octaves;
- 2. D Harmonic minor, two octaves; G Harmonic minor, one octave; and
- 3. Chromatic scale full range
- Video file #4: *Clarinet Optional* Perdido (arr. Wilson) Reed 3 letter O to Letter R
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- CATEGORIES
Up-tempo Swing - Moose the Mooche – Charlie Parker (B-flat Major)
- Anthropology – Charlie Parker (B-flat Major)
- Confirmation – Charlie Parker (F Major)
- Blues
- Mr. P.C. – John Coltrane (c minor)
- Straight No Chaser – Thelonious Monk (B-flat Major)
- Billie’s Bounce – Charlie Parker (F Major)
- Ballad
- Body and Soul – Johnny Green (D-flat Major)
- Stardust – Hoagy Carmichael (D-flat Major)
- The Very Thought of You – Ray Noble (E-flat Major)
- Medium Swing
- Perdido – Juan Tizol (B-flat Major)
- In a Mellotone – Duke Ellington (A-flat Major)
- There Will Never Be Another You – Harry Warren (E-flat Major)
STEINHARDT in NY??
DUE: MARCH 31, 2023
- Days of Wine and Roses
- Ask Me Now (ballad)> backing track
- Blue Train (Blues) > backing track
