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Restless Visionary: Eight groundbreaking Herbie Hancock tracks

Herbie Hancock is a restless visionary and groundbreaking artist. This year marks the 80th birthday of one of music’s most important innovators. Growing up in Chicago, being a classical piano prodigy, and having an insatiable appetite for curiosity, both as a player and ... more

Jazz career opportunities for students with a degree

Jazz career opportunities for students with degrees are exciting. Every year students spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on jazz education. They spend countless hours in the practice room, in a structured classroom environment, playing in small group combos, big band, ... more

Experience is the best teacher: A few questions with Giacomo Gates

Giacomo Gates, and his velvety toned baritone voice will grace the New York Jazz Workshop teaching a masterclass on May 19th. As a supplement to the profile piece just published, I had the opportunity to ask him a few brief questions. In this very rich interview you’ll ... more

Passionate about the art of vocalese? A brief profile of maestro Giacomo Gates

In the crowded landscape of jazz vocals, there are few like Giacomo Gates. Hailing from Bridgeport Connecticut, and later moving to Alaska for construction work the baritone singer has delighted audiences through his absolute mastery of the art of vocalese. While he sings ... more

Divinity Roxx in Conversation with CJ Shearn

For this edition of the podcast I bring you a discussion with bassist, songwriter and emcee Divinity Roxx. She has played in Beyonce’s band in the past decade as well as toured with Victor Wooten, and her music is an effervescent blend of funk, rock, hip hop and jazz. ... more

Crossing the Free Improvisation Bridge

Last night at the Jazz Vocal Workshop we ended up Crossing the Free Improvisation Bridge. What I mean by this, is that we took part in a free improvisation exercise that turned out to be not only lots of fun, but inspirational for the vocalists. This was thee first time since ... more

Jazz Vocal Workshop had the Blues!

Wow, last Thursday’s workshop was just too much fun! After the first session, I decided that each session we’d focs o one specific thing: talk about, do an exercise and play with it. After a good stretch and warm-up, we focused on writing lyrics for one chorus of ... more

Vocal Harmonies Sung by Ear

W O W !!! As much as I love teaching and as much fun as well as learning we have in the Jazz Vocal Workshop, this last session was inspiring, spellbinding and loads of challenging fun! We talked about harmony – what it means to them and what it means in music. I had ... more

NEW Bi-weekly Vocal Workshop has started!

Last night I started a bi weekly workshop for the New York Jazz Workshop(NYJW)! The NYJW has been working on this project for sometime and we’re all excited to get it up and running. We’ve started with four interested and curious students – with great voices ... more

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