Friday 29 May 2009
Saturday 16 May 2009
Great Gig Last Night!
Wow! What a fun gig last night at Kenny's for the Ikebukuro Jazz Festival. 2 shows...both packed...guys in the band playin' their butts off! Thanks to all that came out and especially to the guys in the band. Yoshiko, thank you for this photo!
Tour - Shikoku/Kansai - May 18-25
Doing my 10th tour in Japan starting tomorrow.....May 18-25. Will be traveling by bullet train from Tokyo to Shikoku Island. We take the train from Tokyo and go to Okayama (about 4 hours...at about 150/mph). In Okayama we change to a more local kind of train for an hour ride across a huge bridge and into the countryside of Shikoku Island. Rehearsals May 18-21. Me, the bass player (from Lewisburg) and drummer will be staying at the leader's house. He has a great place out in the country. Has a special building for the music. Looks like a huge old cabin (1 huge room with high ceiling and log beams) but Japanese style with the tatami floor. I will rehearse there, hang-out in the evening and sleep there. Really feels like I'm camping out. The building and his house are surrounded by Japanese gardens. Looks very mysterious when you wake up early and the fog is laying in and around the trees. The leader plays the Japanese flute called shakuhachi. On the 22nd, we will travel to Kyoto. We will be staying in an old shrine called "Ritsu-In" (you can see some photos of the place at this website) and doing a concert on the 23rd in the shrine. I attached 5 photos: a traditional dish from Shikoku....deep fried shrimp/vegetables over local noodles (udon) with leeks and grated Japanese radish (not similar to the radishes we eat in the USA), a photo of a moth (maybe 6-8 inches wide..HUGE) I saw unexpectedly on the side of an old building last time I was in Shikoku, a photo of the building for rehearsing/hang/sleep and 2 photos of the shrine where I'm going to play/stay in Kyoto. It should be a great experience.
Some Shikoku Info:
http://budurl.com/q8qh
http://budurl.com/cuay
http://budurl.com/c9zq
http://budurl.com/xg9f
http://budurl.com/65qc
Some Shikoku Info:
http://budurl.com/q8qh
http://budurl.com/cuay
http://budurl.com/c9zq
http://budurl.com/xg9f
http://budurl.com/65qc
Thursday 14 May 2009
Practicing.....
Hangin' out at home practicing today. I like practicing trumpet only 10-20 minutes at a time but, several times from morning to night.
Used to see people practicing 2 or 3 hours at a time when I was in school. They always were talking the next day about their chops feeling so bad.....hahaha.
Used to see people practicing 2 or 3 hours at a time when I was in school. They always were talking the next day about their chops feeling so bad.....hahaha.
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Monday 4 May 2009
Friday 1 May 2009
Jazz Workshop May 23
Just got this email from Jonathan Katz and thought I would post it here for your info:
Jonathan Katz
http://www.jkatz.net/
Dear All,
Please excuse this sudden BCC e-mail notice/request.
I want to inform you about and ask you to put the word out to students/
colleagues about a "Sax & Improv clinic with Mini Duo Concert" I will
be doing with Dave Pietro at Ishimori Gakki.
It came together quite late and we are just starting to promote it now
and could use some help, hence this unsolicited solicitation.
This clinic will be open to participation by individual
instrumentalists as well as auditors. If you have any students, esp.
but not limited to sax players, who would appreciate the rare
opportunity to hear and get some individual instruction/attention from
a guy of Dave's caliber (oh yeah, I'll be there, too!), could you talk
up the clinic/concert to them? The fee is 2,500 yen.
For those of you who don't know, Dave is a road-hardened former
regular lead alto saxophonist with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson,
Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman & Toshiko Akiyoshi, and has been doing
clinics all over the US for many years, in addition to his performing/
writing projects and regular teaching gigs at NYU and Hofstra
University. Dave and I have been doing performance tours in Japan for
almost seven years now. But he is a RIDICULOUSLY good clinician
(teacher) and I've long been wanting to introduce aspiring players in
Japan to him.
The clinic will be the afternoon of Saturday May 23rd at Ishimori
Gakki, which is a 2-minute walk from Okubo Station on the JR Sobu line.
Here are some specific topics we have in mind. Of course, we could go
anywhere with the clinic depending on the questions, attending
players' needs, etc....
- Jazz Theory and Ear Training
- How to build a jazz vocabulary
- Telling a story
- The art of practicing
- Interpreting jazz articulations
- How to play in tune
If you could encourage your students to attend, that would be great. I
myself learn a lot from just watching Dave at work, so some of you may
want to attend yourself, esp. if you have a keen interest in teaching.
The clinic will be in the afternoon. I will send exact time details
when I get them. For more on Dave, see his website www.davepietro.com
& his video page on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/AntimoMusic
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Jonathan
Jonathan Katz
http://www.jkatz.net/
Dear All,
Please excuse this sudden BCC e-mail notice/request.
I want to inform you about and ask you to put the word out to students/
colleagues about a "Sax & Improv clinic with Mini Duo Concert" I will
be doing with Dave Pietro at Ishimori Gakki.
It came together quite late and we are just starting to promote it now
and could use some help, hence this unsolicited solicitation.
This clinic will be open to participation by individual
instrumentalists as well as auditors. If you have any students, esp.
but not limited to sax players, who would appreciate the rare
opportunity to hear and get some individual instruction/attention from
a guy of Dave's caliber (oh yeah, I'll be there, too!), could you talk
up the clinic/concert to them? The fee is 2,500 yen.
For those of you who don't know, Dave is a road-hardened former
regular lead alto saxophonist with the big bands of Maynard Ferguson,
Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman & Toshiko Akiyoshi, and has been doing
clinics all over the US for many years, in addition to his performing/
writing projects and regular teaching gigs at NYU and Hofstra
University. Dave and I have been doing performance tours in Japan for
almost seven years now. But he is a RIDICULOUSLY good clinician
(teacher) and I've long been wanting to introduce aspiring players in
Japan to him.
The clinic will be the afternoon of Saturday May 23rd at Ishimori
Gakki, which is a 2-minute walk from Okubo Station on the JR Sobu line.
Here are some specific topics we have in mind. Of course, we could go
anywhere with the clinic depending on the questions, attending
players' needs, etc....
- Jazz Theory and Ear Training
- How to build a jazz vocabulary
- Telling a story
- The art of practicing
- Interpreting jazz articulations
- How to play in tune
If you could encourage your students to attend, that would be great. I
myself learn a lot from just watching Dave at work, so some of you may
want to attend yourself, esp. if you have a keen interest in teaching.
The clinic will be in the afternoon. I will send exact time details
when I get them. For more on Dave, see his website www.davepietro.com
& his video page on youtube http://www.youtube.com/user/AntimoMusic
Thanks for your time and consideration,
Jonathan
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