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| Tour: Teaching |
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| Apr 12 Sunday | California Jazz Conservatory -
ONLINE,
via Zoom Clinic (Online) – open to all “Improvising with Pentatonic Scales” Show More Info 11am-2pm Pacific Time (2pm-5pm Eastern)
LIVE, ONLINE WORKSHOP
Description:
This workshop offers a practical and theoretical exploration of pentatonic (five-note) scales and their powerful role in jazz improvisation. Beginning with core principles, we’ll examine how pentatonics function across a wide range of harmonic contexts and why this deceptively simple structure—found in folk traditions around the world—remains one of the most versatile tools in modern jazz.
Participants will explore how pentatonic sounds can create color, tension, and contrast within sophisticated harmonic settings, and how to integrate them more intentionally and fluently into their solos.
Prerequisites: Understanding of basic chords and seven-note scales is required; familiarity with advanced harmony (altered dominants, Lydian concepts, etc.) is recommended. |
| May 3 Sunday | California Jazz Conservatory -
ONLINE,
via Zoom Clinic (Online) – open to all “The Insen Scale In Jazz” Show More Info 11am-1:30pm Pacific Time (2pm-4:30pm Eastern)
LIVE, ONLINE WORKSHOP
Description:
This workshop introduces the In Sen scale—a Japanese pentatonic sound with striking intervallic character—and explores its applications in jazz harmony. While often associated with suspended flat-9 dominant sonorities, its usefulness extends far beyond a single harmonic setting.
We will examine its theoretical foundation, its relationship to broader scalar systems, and its expressive potential across multiple contexts. Participants will focus on hearing, internalizing, and applying the scale in improvisation.
Participants are encouraged to have their instruments available.
Prerequisite: Some familiarity with the modes of the melodic minor scale. |
| May 31 Sunday | California Jazz Conservatory -
ONLINE,
via Zoom Clinic (Online) – open to all “Playing Bluesy over JAZZ Harmony” Show More Info 11am-2pm Pacific Time (2pm-5pm Eastern)
LIVE, ONLINE WORKSHOP
Description:
Master improvisers draw deeply from the blues tradition—even while navigating complex jazz harmony. This workshop explores how blues-based language can coexist with—and at times transcend—sophisticated chord progressions.
Participants will examine the principles that allow blues vocabulary to function convincingly across a wide range of harmonic settings. Through listening, discussion, and guided exercises, the session will strengthen intuitive connections between blues phrasing and jazz harmony, helping players bring greater emotional clarity and depth to their improvisation. |
Noteworthy past venues
- Blue Note, NYC
- Blue Whale, Los Angeles
- Blues Alley, Washington DC
- Boston Symphony Hall
- Century Park, Shanghai, China
- Chris’ Jazz Cafe, Philadelphia
- Dizzy’s, San Diego
- Catalina Jazz Club, Los Angeles
- Earshot Jazz Festival, Seattle
- Fillmore Jazz Festival, San Francisco
- Fifty-Five Bar, NYC
- Frankie’s Jazz, Vancouver, Canada
- Grace Cathedral, San Francisco
- Hermann’s Jazz, Victoria, Canada
- Jazz Alley, Seattle
- Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC
- KCSM Jazz on the Hill, San Mateo, CA
- The Jazz Standard, NYC
- Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival
- Kuumbwa Jazz Center, Santa Cruz
- LACMA, Los Angeles
- Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
- Monterey Jazz Festival
- Regattabar, Boston
- Ryles Jazz Club, Boston
- San Francisco Jazz Festival
- Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts
- Scullers Jazz Club, Boston
- SFJAZZ, San Francisco
- SLO Jazz Festival, San Luis Obispo
- The United Nations, NYC
- Vitello’s, Los Angeles
- Yardbird Suite, Edmonton, Canada
- Yoshi’s, Oakland
