Firstly I wish all of us to find our own potential. For this potential sometimes tools can help. The ideas one wishes to realize can be helped by knowing how to fulfill these very wishes. In searching for the lost chord I discovered an instrument which regulates the builiding of modalities. With a logical progression […]
Read more "Modal Mastery and Sound Creation"Most of the human race thinks New Orleans was the city where Jazz began. Yes of course however the entire Soul and Rock n’ Roll had its roots there as well. Perhaps for the connoisseur of the entire musical scene in New Orleans this is a well-known fact. Some of the names one should look at […]
Read more "New Orleans R and B"The Center for Documentary Studies and the New York Public Library present a program devoted to the monumental, behind-the-scenes influence of pianist, arranger, composer, teacher, and Jazz Loft veteran Hall Overton. Featuring Steve Reich, composer; Joel Sachs, conductor and pianist; Carman Moore, composer, arranger, and conductor; Ethan Iverson, composer and pianist; Sam Stephenson, Director of […]
Read more "Hall Overton, My Most Influential Teacher"