charleysax
04-09-2004, 06:43 PM
Broken Reed Music presents
Weekend Jazz Workshops
Session 4: Improvising Jazz Sax with Tim Price, Andy Middleton and Charley Gerard
August 21 and August 22 at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.
We’re looking for dedicated amateurs with or without a jazz background. Each weekend will culminate in an extended session with a professional rhythm section in which all workshop participants will solo under the supervision of the instructors. The workshop fee is $200. For an application, please contact Charley Gerard at cgerard@pipeline.com
About the instructors:Tim Price is a Selmer saxophone clinician. He is in demand as a performer and educator worldwide. He has played with musicians like Bennie Green, Hans Dulfer, Lew Tabackin, Ray Drummond, Jon Mayer, Greg Bandy, James Gadson , Don Patterson, Billy James, Major Holly, Alan Dawson , Bill Doggett, Jack Mc Duff, Harry James, Cecil Payne , Richie Cole, Ernie Watts, the Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts, Gary Burton, Doc Severinson, Dr. John, Phil Woods, Charlie Mariano, Shirly Scott, Trudy Pitts, Sonny Simmons, Sonny Stitt and Ernie Krivda. He currently has two arrangements in the Count Basie band book. He has written three books on sax playing. His Sax on the Web Lessons http://www.saxontheweb.net/Price/ are used by students and pros everywhere. His original tunes have been recorded by Houston Person and Supersax tenor player Jay Migliori. Tim played the North Sea Jazz in Holland in July 2002 and then performed on Dutch radio shows and clubs with tenor sax player Hans Dulfer. Tim teaches jazz saxophone at Kutztown College and the New School in New York City.
Andy Middleton won the First Prize and Best Soloist Awards at the 13th Europe Jazz Contest in 1991, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant (USA) in 1996. In addition to recording four CDs under his own name, he has also performed and/or recorded with Lionel Hampton, Randy Brecker, Maria Schneider, and Don Sebesky. He has toured Europe as a leader and sideman more than 30 times since 1990, performing at many of the major jazz festivals, and in clubs in almost every European country. Middleton’s book, Guide to Melodic Improvising: Improvising Concepts for Jazz Musicians, will be published this year by Advance Music.
Charley Gerard, the founding director of Broken Reed Music, will be teaching at all of the workshops. He is the leader of the Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet, an author, and a composer of chamber, symphonic, and jazz works. Awards: Oustanding Academic Title of 1998 from Choice Magazine, several ASCAP Standard Awards, and a CETA Artist-In-Residence position from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. Gerard’s books include Sonny Rollins (Consolidated, 1981), Improvising Jazz Sax (Consolidated, 1979), and Jazz Riffs for Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet and Other Treble Instruments (Amsco, 1976). In addition to books on jazz technique, he has written a study of race in the jazz community and two books on Latin music. Gerard is co-publisher of Gerard & Sarzin Publishing Co.
Weekend Jazz Workshops
Session 4: Improvising Jazz Sax with Tim Price, Andy Middleton and Charley Gerard
August 21 and August 22 at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury, CT.
We’re looking for dedicated amateurs with or without a jazz background. Each weekend will culminate in an extended session with a professional rhythm section in which all workshop participants will solo under the supervision of the instructors. The workshop fee is $200. For an application, please contact Charley Gerard at cgerard@pipeline.com
About the instructors:Tim Price is a Selmer saxophone clinician. He is in demand as a performer and educator worldwide. He has played with musicians like Bennie Green, Hans Dulfer, Lew Tabackin, Ray Drummond, Jon Mayer, Greg Bandy, James Gadson , Don Patterson, Billy James, Major Holly, Alan Dawson , Bill Doggett, Jack Mc Duff, Harry James, Cecil Payne , Richie Cole, Ernie Watts, the Rolling Stones’ Charlie Watts, Gary Burton, Doc Severinson, Dr. John, Phil Woods, Charlie Mariano, Shirly Scott, Trudy Pitts, Sonny Simmons, Sonny Stitt and Ernie Krivda. He currently has two arrangements in the Count Basie band book. He has written three books on sax playing. His Sax on the Web Lessons http://www.saxontheweb.net/Price/ are used by students and pros everywhere. His original tunes have been recorded by Houston Person and Supersax tenor player Jay Migliori. Tim played the North Sea Jazz in Holland in July 2002 and then performed on Dutch radio shows and clubs with tenor sax player Hans Dulfer. Tim teaches jazz saxophone at Kutztown College and the New School in New York City.
Andy Middleton won the First Prize and Best Soloist Awards at the 13th Europe Jazz Contest in 1991, and was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Performance Grant (USA) in 1996. In addition to recording four CDs under his own name, he has also performed and/or recorded with Lionel Hampton, Randy Brecker, Maria Schneider, and Don Sebesky. He has toured Europe as a leader and sideman more than 30 times since 1990, performing at many of the major jazz festivals, and in clubs in almost every European country. Middleton’s book, Guide to Melodic Improvising: Improvising Concepts for Jazz Musicians, will be published this year by Advance Music.
Charley Gerard, the founding director of Broken Reed Music, will be teaching at all of the workshops. He is the leader of the Broken Reed Saxophone Quartet, an author, and a composer of chamber, symphonic, and jazz works. Awards: Oustanding Academic Title of 1998 from Choice Magazine, several ASCAP Standard Awards, and a CETA Artist-In-Residence position from the Cultural Arts Council of Houston. Gerard’s books include Sonny Rollins (Consolidated, 1981), Improvising Jazz Sax (Consolidated, 1979), and Jazz Riffs for Flute, Saxophone, Trumpet and Other Treble Instruments (Amsco, 1976). In addition to books on jazz technique, he has written a study of race in the jazz community and two books on Latin music. Gerard is co-publisher of Gerard & Sarzin Publishing Co.