The Dordogne Jazz Summer School is based at Chateau de Monteton, in south west France and led by pianist & composer Andrea Vicari. Our philosophy is to offer a week of total immersion in jazz and improvisation. An intensive musical language course in a supportive enviroment, with a lot of enthusiastic people at all levels. You may surprise yourself ....and it's fun !
SATURDAY JULY 18th - SATURDAY JULY 25th 2009
MAIN TUTORS
Ingrid Laubrock - saxes
Quentin Collins - trumpet
Malcolm Earle Smith - trombone
Jon Bratoeff - guitar
Nic France - drums and percussion
Scott Vicari - drums and soul-band
Dorian Lockett - basses
Andrea Vicari - piano and MD
MASTERCLASS TUTOR
Mornington Lockett
COURSE OUTLINE
Improvisation, jazz harmony, the exploration of various jazz idioms, and group performance will be the main areas covered. There are nightly organised jam sessions from 6.00pm and all night jams after dinner in the "Cave". At the end of the week there will be the opportunity to perform to a live audience.
See the website for further details
Open to all instruments. Adults (18+) only, unless chaperoned (16+).
TRANSPORT
Fly direct to Bergerac Airport from London (Stansted or Gatwick), Edinburgh, Liverpool, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, Southampton, Nottingham (EMA), Exeter, and Leeds-Bradford with RyanAir or FlyBE (UK students can fly free with an airline credit card). Or for an ethical journey take the Eurostar via Lille or Paris to Bergerac. See the website for details.
INTERNATIONAL STUDENT BODY
The Dordogne Jazz Summer School school welcomes students from all countries. In past years these have included the UK, France, Ireland, Japan, USA, Holland, Turkey, Spain, Israel, Hong Kong, Austrailia, Canada and Italy. Teaching is primarily in English with French translation available as both Andrea Vicari and drum tutor Scott are fluent and the rest of us get by. We use the internationally recognised jazz nomemclature (as found in the "Real Books").
classic comment..will work on the ginger thing..good luck tmrw night..gonna try and bring some people down and will be doing my best monteton impressions during the set..baahh oui...non..A
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