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CLINIC: Techniques - Full Ensemble Rehearsal

Listening Around the Bandstand

Saturday, January 11, 2025
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM EST
Location: Hanover A-B

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Jazz music, especially in the combo setting, is essentially a series of musical conversations occurring simultaneously within the framework of a given song. In this clinic, the Blue Lake jazz faculty will explore these conservations between instruments that take place during a performance. Besides the musical conversations, each instrument has a role to fulfill on its own as well. The clinicians will clearly define the role of the respective instruments within the ensemble. The group will then perform one song and discuss the conversations that take place during the performance. The goal of this demonstration is to provide the audience with insight as to what is transpiring between band members during a jazz performance and how critical the element of listening is to jazz and in particular, a jazz combo. This demonstration clinic involves performing and live modeling of the ideas being proposed.