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Jazz at Naz
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JAZZ AT NAZ 2010
Nazareth College
Rochester, New York
July 25-30, 2010
Our easternmost summer jazz camp is located at Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. This small, private college offers an outstanding music facility, including plenty of air-conditioned classrooms, performance halls, and piano-equipped practice rooms. Dormitories are air-conditioned, with four private-bedroom suites that share two full baths, one with tub, the other with shower. It's a beautiful place to learn jazz and have a great time.
TENTATIVE 2010 DAILY SCHEDULE
8:00 am Breakfast (included for campers on meal plan).
9:00 am Rhythming
A wake-up call to the essential rhythms of jazz, led by faculty for all campers.
9:30 am Jazz Theory & Aural Training
Self-placement in basic, intermediate, or advanced level classes. Chord/scale/mode relationships, developing your ear, and improvisational techniques.
10:30 am Big Band Rehearsal and Vocal Solo Sessions. Camper big band prepares a program for the Thursday Concert. (Those not wishing to play in big band can form informal combos, practice, or take a break.)
Noon Lunch (included for campers on meal plan).
1:30 pm Jazz Small Group Rehearsals and More Vocal Sessions
Join other campers of your experience and skill level in a small combo and prepare a set for the Friday concert. Vocalists work with a faculty piano accompanist.
3:00 pm Special Topic Sessions
Explore Colors of Jazz with radio personality Tom Hampson.
4:00 pm Master Classes
A group lesson taught by a master of your instrument/voice.
5:30 pm Dinner (included for campers on meal plan).
7:00 pm Evening Sessions
SUNDAY: Faculty Concert and Orientation
M,T,W: Faculty Showcase Concerts followed by conducted multi-level Camper Jam Sessions
THURSDAY: Camper Big Band Concert
FRIDAY: Solo Singers Revue and Camper Combos Showcase
TENTATIVE 2010 FACULTY
Gene Bertoncini (guitar and combos). One of the finest guitarists and most entertaining teachers in the world. Gene's master classes are energetic and rigorous, his combo leadership and arranging are always creative and fun, and his jokes are, well, old (but still funny). This veteran of the Benny Goodman and NBC Tonight Show orchestras as well as hundreds of recordings and performances with just about everyone who's anyone in jazz infuses every camp with wit, charm, and good feeling. Full bio at www.genebertoncini.com
Jim Doser (saxophone, flute, clarinet, combos, big band) is Director of Music for the Penfield (NY) School District, where he also directs the Penfield Music Commission Project (PMCP), a program designed to connect well-known musicians and composers with public school students. A lifelong teacher and former Eastman School faculty member, Jim is also an outstanding reed player whose talents are constantly in demand in the Rochester area.
Tom Hampson (Colors of Jazz). A retired attorney, Tom has served as counsel to Birdseye Foods, musicians Buddy Rich, Alec Wilder, and Marian McPartland, and won one of Rochester, New York's most important First Amendment cases. Tom hosted his first jazz radio show as a Cornell University student in the late 1940s and has supported jazz on the air ever since. He currently hosts Mostly Jazz with Tom Hampson twice weekly on WXXI-AM radio in Rochester.
Clay Jenkins (trumpet) is Associate Professor of Jazz Studies & Contemporary Media at the Eastman School of Music. He can be heard on three live albums with the Stan Kenton Band, Artistry in Symphonic Jazz, A Time for Love, and The Lost Concerts, Vols. I & II. He has also recorded with Milt Jackson, the Clayton/Hamilton Jazz Orchestra, Diana Krall, Billy Harper, Lyle Mays, Peter Erskine, Harold Danko, Rufus Reid, Ray Brown, Joe La Barbera, Kurt Elling, Dr. John, Bob Sheppard, Jim Widner, John La Barbera, Pat La Barbera, Eric Reed, Gary Hobbs, Rich Perry, Bill Perkins, Bill Cunliffe, Gary Anderson, Billy Childs, Steve Houghton, Lennie Niehaus, Ernestine Anderson, Karrin Allyson, and Miki Coltrane; and has recorded three albums as a leader--Rings, Give and Gather, Yellow Flowers After, Azure Eyes, and Matters of Time.
Mark Kellogg (trombone). Mark is the consummate musician/educator: Chair of the Chamber Music Department; Associate Professor of Euphonium, Trombone, and Brass Chamber Music; Coordinator, Brass Chamber Music Program; and Faculty member of the Jazz and Contemporary Media Department of the Eastman School of Music. And, oh, yeah, Principal Trombone of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. His jazz credentials include performances with Clark Terry, Chris Vadala, Wynton Marsalis, Eddie Daniels, and Mel Tormé. Recent jazz and commercial recordings include collaborations with Jeff Tyzik, Gene Bertoncini, Allen Vizzutti, Steve Gadd, and Gap Mangione. His newly released jazz recording with Eastman School faculty colleague pianist Tony Caramia, Upstate Standards, celebrates the music of upstate New York composers Harold Arlen, Alec Wilder, and Jimmy Van Heusen.
Carolyn Leonhart-Escoffery (voice) embodies vocal eclecticism. You may know her as the lead backup singer for Steely Dan (fourteen years, six world tours, four albums, four Grammys). Or from her five recordings as a leader, including her newest, Tides of Yesterday (Savant Records), a collaboration with saxophonist Wayne Escoffery. Or from her popular Sunday Vocalists series at New York City's Smoke Jazz Club. Or from her performances with the hip-hop group The Real Live Show, the club/dance group Liquid Solution; and the pop/lounge project Lyn Leon. Or as the daughter of famed jazz bassist Jay Leonhart. But you don’t know her at all until you’ve seen her light up a classroom with her dynamic energy, rooted in a lifetime of respect for the song. Learn more at www.carolynleonhart.com.
Ted Poor (drums). Many kids get exposed to Horace Silver concerts and learn to bang homemade drum kits at an early age, but few grow up to be one of the most in-demand young drummers in NYC. Still only 28, Ted Poor has built on his native talent to establish a solid reputation as both drummer and teacher, performing with the likes of Kurt Rosenwinkel, Chris Potter, Ben Monder, Donny McCaslin and Maria Schneider and maintaining a steady flow of students through his studio. In 2003, Ted graduated from the Eastman School of Music, moved from upstate NY to to NYC, and released his first recording as a leader, All Around (Trier). He now performs regularly with Grammy-winning trumpeter Cuong Vu, The Respect Sextet, Jerseyband, and Bad Touch. As a guest soloist and educator, he has held residencies at the Eastman School, Berklee, Cal Arts, the Universities of Colorado and Washington, Lawrence University, and with the HR Big Band of Frankfurt, Germany. See more at www.tedpoor.com
Kristen Shiner-McGuire (Rhythming, vibes and general fun). Kristen Shiner McGuire is the Director of Percussion Studies and the Assistant Jazz Ensemble Director at Nazareth, where she has taught since 1984; and was the recipient of the 1998 Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award. She holds a Bachelor of Music degree with Highest Honors from the University of Illinois and a Masters degree in Percussion Performance and a Performer’s Certificate from the Eastman School of Music. Kristen’s performing talents run the gamut from jazz singer and drummer, solo marimbist, orchestral percussionist and timpanist, to contemporary chamber musician. She has performed with Clark Terry, Johnnie Mathis, Mickey Rooney, the Pan Gaia Steel Band, the New Japan Philharmonic, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. For more information, go to www.kristenshinermcguire.com
Ike Sturm (bass, combos, theory). A camper favorite, Ike is a bassist, composer, and leader of the Ike Sturm Ensemble in New York and serves as the Music Director for Jazz at Saint Peter's Church (the renowned "Jazz Church") in Manhattan. He received BM & MM jazz performance degrees at the Eastman School of Music and has studied privately with legendary bassist Dave Holland. Ike has performed with Bobby McFerrin, Kenny Wheeler, Gene Bertoncini, Maria Schneider, Peter Erskine and Benny Powell. For more information, see www.ikesturm.com
Dariusz Terefenko (piano). With two master’s degrees (in jazz and theory) and a Ph.D. in theory from the Eastman School of Music, Dariusz’s holds a day gig as an assistant professor in Eastman’s Department of Jazz Studies and Contemporary Media, and its Department of Music Theory. At Tritone, he dazzles campers with his voluminous theoretical knowledge and his elegant and soulful accompanying and solo performances as well as his delightful, gentle personality. For fun, he interprets Keith Jarrett’s translations of jazz standards—the subject of his doctoral dissertation.
Bill Tiberio (sax master class) possesses that trifecta we look for in all Tritone faculty members--monster player, outstanding teacher, wonderful human being. Bill has been teaching music for the past 25 years, 21 of those in the Fairport (NY) School District, where he conducts jazz ensembles, concert bands, pit orchestras, as well as a good deal of musical electricity. He also leads his own group, the Bill Tiberio Band, and is a longtime member of the Bill Welch Band. He has also recorded two CDs as a leader and has accompanied the likes of Fred Wesley, The Four Tops, the Temptations, Nestor Torres, Lou Gramm, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Chuck Loeb, the Yellowjackets, Eileen Ivers, Jesse Cook, Ken Navarro, the Rippingtons, and Euge Groove.
THE COST
Tuition: $775
Tuition plus meal plan (3 meals a day): $1075
Tuition plus room & board: $1275
WHERE ELSE TO STAY
The three closest motels are:
The Del Monte Lodge: a Renaissance Motel, 41 N. Main St., Pittsford, NY 14534, 585-381-9900. Brand-new, less than a mile from Nazareth.
Holiday Inn Express, 2835 Monroe Ave., Rochester, NY, 14618, 585-784-8400. New and a 10-minute drive from Nazareth.
Courtyard by Marriot Penfield, 1000 Linden Park, Rochester, NY 14625, 585-385-1000. About a 7-minute drive from Nazareth.
For other Rochester lodging options, check www.visitrochester.com, then call us for an insider's view of the place, if you'd like.
NEAREST COMMERCIAL AIRPORT Greater Rochester International Airport (ROC).
WHAT TO BRING
Music notebook and pencils.
Jazz fake book. Though they're not required, we suggest bringing a jazz tune collection to use in jam sessions and possibly combos. We recommend The Real Easy Book (Volumes 1 & 2) available through your local music retailer or online at Sher Music Co. www.shermusic.com
Your Instrument(s). You won't need them Sunday night, but you will starting Monday morning. (We supply music stands, but if you have a portable one that you can easily pack, please do.)
For Dormies. Everyone will be staying in Clock Tower Commons (South Wing), the newest dorm on the Nazareth campus. You will have your own private bedroom, sharing a bath with one other camper. The linen package consists of two bed sheets, one blanket, one pillow case, two bath towels and one washcloth. Unlike hotels, Nazareth does not provide soap, shampoo, or drinking cups, so bring your own. The dorm is air-conditioned and offers a large-screen TV and a computer lab on each floor, with six computers and wireless access.
Check-in is anytime after 3:00 p.m. on Sunday afternoon, July 25. Students will check you in and Bob will probably be hanging around to confuse things in whatever way he can.
MEALS
If you've purchased the meal package, meals will be served in the Rehearsal Hall of the Music Building, which will take on the character of a jazz club. Your first meal will be at 6:00 p.m. on Sunday. For others, Nazareth has a snack bar and the nearby village of Pittsford offers a wide array of restaurants within walking distance from campus.
GETTING HERE
Nazareth College is at 4245 East Ave. in Rochester, NY, near the village of Pittsford. Their Web site, Nazareth College, contains a campus map and driving directions that you might want to print out and bring with you.
For dormies going to Clock Tower Commons:
From the NYS Thruway, get off at Exit 45 (Rochester-Eastern Suburbs).
Follow I-490 West to Exit 25, Fairport Road/East Rochester and follow the signs for Rte 31F West.
Turn left onto 31F West and take it about 1/2 mile to the second stop light, Rte. 96 South (East Ave.). The entrance to St.John Fisher College will be on your right.
Turn left onto East Ave and drive about a mile to the first stoplight. Turn right into the campus. In about 30 yards, the road forks. Take the left fork, following the "Residence Halls" sign.
Follow the road past the Residential Life office and O'Connor signs on your right. As the road curves after the O'Connor sign, you'll see Parking Lot H on your left. Pull into Parking Lot H and park as close as possible to the road you were just on. Clock Tower Commons is directly across the road. Go in the double doors and a student assistant will check you in.
For Rochester-based commuters or hotel dwellers:
Take I-490 to Exit 25.
If you were approaching from I-490 East, bear left at the "Y" in the exit and proceed to 31F West. If you were approaching from I-490 West, go to the first light (31F West) and turn left.
Drive about 1/2 mile to the second stop light, Rte. 96 South (East Ave.). The entrance to St. John Fisher College will be on your right. Turn left onto East Ave. and drive to your first signal light.
Turn right onto the Nazareth campus, and right again into Parking Lot A.
The building at the far end of the parking lot--the Gerald C. Wilmot Hall of Music--is where all camp activities take place. Go to the right of the building and enter through the first door on your left. Signs will direct you to the recital hall.
OTHER STUFF YOU SHOULD KNOW
What to wear: Most of the camp is very casual. Shorts, jeans and t-shirts are recommended, but you may wish to bring something dressier for the final concerts.
Build some chops. If it's been a while since you played, you might want to spend some time with your instrument. Start slowly and try to play a little every day to gradually restore your chops or your voice. You'll need them.
PAYMENT & REFUND POLICY:
You are not officially registered until we receive a $100 deposit.
Payment in full is required 14 days before the first day of the camp.
Cancelations 30 days or more before the first day of the camp = full refund.
Cancellations 14-30 days before the first day of camp = payment refunded, but not deposit.
CANCELLATION LESS THAN 14 DAYS BEFORE THE FIRST DAY OF CAMP = NO REFUND.example