Great to get back at it.
Another great workshop. The two hours literally flew bye. We worked on Rain, a tune writen by Miles Okazaki, and […]
Back in the mix
After a small holiday break we are back on track and getting ready for the performance at smalls on the […]
Preparing for Smalls
On Saturday the students came back after a two week hiatus for the holidays. We started playing over F blues […]
Dolphin Dance
This week the Bebop Workshop worked on an arrangement of Dolphin Dance that will be played at Small’s, we spent […]
Dec 20, ii V sequence.
We warmed up with two and three whole note interval eartraining, equivelant to major 3rds and sharp 4ths. From there […]
Dec 20, Two’s and Three’s
We had a very intensive class, working mostly on original material written by the students: a tune in 7/4, quarter […]
Arrangement on all Blues
Yesterday in the Standards Class the students came up with an arrangement on “All Blues.” It was great to hear all […]
Quasimodo & Serpent’s Tooth
At our session yesterday we had a new drummer Eric Puente, and Mathew Mayers on saxophone along with the rest. […]
The First Session
Mark Sherman and David In the first session we worked on Quasimodo by Charlie Parker, which is one of my […]
Dec 13 workshop
We started with major and minor thirds, with special attention to descending from the third to the root. This was […]
Dec. 13 workshop.
Another great class. We worked on 4:3, and payed special attention to always feeling the sixteenth as an undercurrent. From […]