Last night I started a bi weekly workshop for the New York Jazz Workshop(NYJW)! The NYJW has been working on […]

We sank our teeth in the challenging set of music that we are preparing for the gig. Its not there […]

Getting a set of music together and made a little playbook on who solo’s where. And a nice arrangement on […]

Today the Bebop to Hard Bop Workshop had Andrea Veneziani subbing for Mark Sherman. We worked on the tunes are going […]

Another great workshop. The two hours literally flew bye. We worked on Rain, a tune writen by Miles Okazaki, and […]

After a small holiday break we are back on track and getting ready for the performance at smalls on the […]

On Saturday the students came back after a two week hiatus for the holidays. We started playing over F blues […]

This  week the Bebop Workshop worked on an arrangement of Dolphin Dance that will be played at Small’s, we spent […]

We warmed up with two and three whole note interval eartraining, equivelant to major 3rds and sharp 4ths. From there […]

We had a very intensive class, working mostly on original material written by the students: a tune in 7/4, quarter […]

Yesterday in the Standards Class the students came up with an arrangement on “All Blues.” It was great to hear all […]

At our session yesterday we had a new drummer Eric Puente, and Mathew Mayers on saxophone along with the rest. […]