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Been having great fun playing with Josefina Mendez and the Intervention Band at the Westin Snowmass Resort. This recording of "Tu Mi Delirio" was made March 7, 2013. Play it from the Music Player, or check it out on SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/timmyfox/tu-mi-delirio
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I'll be facilitating a "Survey of Jazz Styles" class at the Third Street Center, Carbondale, CO., June 16th, 2011, from 6:30-8:30. For information on attending, click here. The following, is a tentative outline for the class.
A necessarily succinct survey of jazz styles, with guest, Bob Levey.
We'll listen to and put a little context to the following styles of jazz:
- Blues (call and response)
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- Mississippi Fred McDowell; "Soon ONe Mornin'"
- Traditional Jazz (Hot Jazz)
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- Louis Armstrong; "West End Blues"
- Swing
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- Duke Ellington; "It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Don't Have That Swing"
- Coleman Hawkins; "Body And Soul"
- Bebop
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- Bob Levey; Stories about Stan Levey, Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, Miles Davis, etc.
- Bebop; Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Levey, Stan Getz, etc
- Charlie Parker; Just Friends
- Hard Bop
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- Doodlin'; Horace Silver & The Jazz Messengers
- Joy Spring; Clifford Brown - performed by Bob and Tim
- Giant Steps; John Coltrane
- Modal Jazz
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- So What; Miles Davis
- Avant Gaurd/Free Jazz
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- Acknowledgment; John Coltrane
- Jazz Fusion
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- Birdland; Weather Report
- Some of today's artists and their "amalgamated" music
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- Joe Lovano
- Tim Hagans
- Kenny Werner
My notes on Jazz Styles - click here.
My Diigo Jazz Appreciation list of links - click here.
My Diigo Webslide show - click here.
My Jazz Appreciation Bibliography - click here.
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Always have your stuff when you need it with @Dropbox. 2GB account is free! http://db.tt/yrF28xq
I use Dropbox for a bunch of stuff. I can:
- put a file (e.g. a pdf) from my computer in to Dropbox, and read it later on my iPhone
- put a pdf of sheet music in to Dropbox, and play from it on an iPad
- do an "offsite" backup of important files
- share files that are too big to share as email attachments
- share file systems with other Dropbox users
Download it and install it from here: http://db.tt/yrF28xq
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We'll be firing up the Roaring Fork Jazz workshop again in late September or early October 2010. Until then, keep woodshedding those bebop scales!
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Here's a little video that I'd like to share of me playing with a little trumpeter. Note her complete lack of inhibition, and how closely she listens and watches. She, without any prior knowledge of jazz practices, is hanging in there with trading fours. Okay, so the notes aren't quite there, but she plays with such reckless abandon, and has some serious phrasing going on. After the session, I wondered who learned more, ALG or me.
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First of all, I'd like to make clear that, at this point, the Workshop is just that. It's not a rehearsal for a band. It's more like a group lesson in jazz improvisation. If you all get inspired to make some connections, and start a group, that's awesome! I hope that the Workshop will help equip you with some foundational skills to make your group sensational.
OK. Now for the schedule. I'd like to have the High School students and adult beginner/intermediates meet from 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Then from 8:00 PM - 9:30 PM, have a group practice session, which I'll lead. I'm going to treat it as I would my own practice sessions, focusing on a creative approach toward working on scales, tunes, and improv. If you'd like to sit in, you're welcome. It'll be geared toward advanced stuff, so watch out!
See you on April 7th!
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If you haven't already, check out "shared bookmarks" on del.icio.us. Get an account (free) post and share your bookmarks. Then, your bookmarks are available from any computer that's on the internet! I don't save bookmarks locally, anymore.
Here are my bookmarks related to jazz:
http://del.icio.us/tdfoxdale/jazz/
This site's technology has become perhaps my most useful internet tool.
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Check out Artist's Share:
'A place where fans fund the projects of their favorite artists in exchange for the privilege of "participating" in the creative process.'
One of the features that you "Jazz Workshopers" should be interested in is the "online lesson" component. The artists regularly submit these lessons in conjunction with the music they're most recently recording.
Some of the artist's featured are:
And more.
It's a pretty awesome concept, and free to join.
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Tim Fox graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a degree in Music Education. He has played trumpet and/or piano in the Chicago area, around Colorado's Western Slope, and on the road, with the likes of "The Tommy Dorsey Orchestra," under the direction of Buddy Morrow, "The Temptations" and "The Four Tops," Eric Alexander, Ed Soph, Ernie Watts, Red Skelton, Barbara Eden, Connie Francis, Mitzi Gaynor, and with many more. Tim facilitated, with the generous support of Jazz Aspen Snowmass (JAS,) the Roaring Fork Jazz Workshop, and worked closley with the JAS's education initiatives. He is currently a freelance musician, living near the sourthern Door County, Wisconsin, but still collaborates with musicians from Denver to Grand Junction, and considers himself a member of the Josefina Mendez Jazz trio and Elements Jazz. Check out sample performances with Josefina Mendez Jazz on YouTube.
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