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