programs

Outdoor Summer Mobile Concerts

Since 1964, Jazzmobile has been presenting Free Outdoor Summer Mobile Concerts. As the pioneer mobile music organization, Jazzmobile has brought the great Jazz Artists of our time directly to the public throughout the five boroughs of New York City, Washington D.C., Maryland, Virginia, Essex County, New Jersey, Westchester County, and several cities in upstate New York. Our concerts are funded by the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, State senator David A. Pater, Assembly Keith Wright, and corporate sponsors.

Free Saturday Jazz Workshops

Housed at PS7 in Harlem, this nationally known and highly respected instructional model project was instituted in 1969, and attracts children ages 7 years and up from throughout New York City and the Tri-State area. Working with highly experienced Jazzmobile artist/instructors using the "master/apprentice" approach, students are able to develop their technical and musical skills. Emphasis is placed on Harmony and Theory, Reading Proficiency, Instrument Technique Development, Ensemble and Improvisational Playing as these important musical elements relate to the Jazz tradition. Many of our students have successfully entered the professional music field.

Returning this year to the Jazz Workshop program are the Master Classes conducted by great jazz legends and artists.

This free program serves both minority and non-minority students from the five boroughs and the tri-state area. The program is free, with a nominal registration fee. Many of our workshop students have gone on the achieve successful career in jazz.

2007/2008 Workshop Schedule

New Location!!!
Wadleigh Secondary School for the Performing and Visual Arts
215 West 114th Street (between 7th and 8th Avenues)
Harlem, NY 10026

The Workshop is a 15 week program that runs from:
December 1, 2007 through March 30, 2008
(approximately)
(not counting snow days and holidays)

ALL REGISTRATION PAYMENTS:
Make Checks and Money Orders Payable to: Jazzmobile, Inc. or Charge: Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover.

Classes and On-Site Registration: 215 West 114th Street (7th-8th Avenues)

Open Registration/On Site:
Bring completed form on
Saturday: November 17, 2007 (One Day Only!)
11:30 a.m. – 3:30 p.m.

All Registration Payments: Make Money Orders Payable to "Jazzmobile, Inc."
or charge to Visa, Mastercard, American Express or Discover

Adults: $80.00

Children to Youth (up to 18 years old)/ Seniors (65 and up) $25.00 – (ID required)

Registration fee is NON-REFUNDABLE

Saturday Jazz Workshop Staff

Instructors 2006/2007
Lee O. “Mickey” Bass	Bass - All Levels and Composition
Cecil Bridgewater	Trumpet - All Levels
Marion Cowings	Vocal - All Levels
Joe Chambers	Vibes - All Levels
Charles Davis	Saxophone - Advance
Charles Davis, Jr.	Saxophone - All Levels
Michael Fleming	Electric Bass - All Levels
Roland Guerrero	Latin Percussion - All Levels
Patience Higgins	Saxophone - Intermediate
Michael Howel	Guitar - Intermediate
Myrna Lake	Vocals - Beginners
Nancy Marano	Vocal - Intermediate
Danny Mixon	Piano - Beginners
Allen Palmer	Piano - Intermediate
Charli Persip	Drums - All Levels
Jay Starkes	Strings - All Levels
Rick Stone	Guitar - Advanced
Kiane Zawadi	Trombone - All Levels

Accompanist 2006/2007
Sasha Perry	Vocal - Advance
Linda Hudson	Vocal - Beginners

Free Public School Jazz Lecture/Demonstration

Beginning in 1968, in response to requests from public schools in New York City, Jazzmobile has produced an annual series of lecture/demonstration concerts in elementary, junior high, and high schools. Talented and skilled Jazzmobile artists conduct a one hour musical and oral presentation focusing on the history and evolution of Jazz.

This program normally begins in February and concludes in May. It educates the students of NYC Public Schools in Jazz, an area of music that is often times overlooked by traditional programs. This project provides youth with an opportunity to participate in the presentation and enjoy the talents of musicians that they would normally not be able to hear in a live performance.

During the sessions, the artists talk about the history of jazz, suggest how to listen to it, involve the students in a discussion and give an impressive performances. The highly skilled professional Jazz artist also serve as a resource in the school, answering questions about Jazz and its cultural importance from both students and teachers.

Since its inception in 1968, we have reached over 200,000 students and teachers of diverse backgrounds.

Free education programs open to the public

Jazzmobile has been at the forefront of bringing arts education programs to the public for over 40 years! Realizing that the public interest demanded more that just quality performance programs, Jazzmobile launched two education programs in the late sixties that are models for similar programs around the country.

The goals of the Lecture Demonstrations and Saturday Jazz Workshop are to:

Provide a music program that is multi-generational, enabling semi-professional adults and advanced students of all ages, an opportunity to receive training from some of the world's most noted professionals (many of our workshop student have gone on to achieve successful musical careers in jazz)
Enable us to hire qualified established artists and talented emerging New York Jazz musicians;
Educate the students of New York City Public Schools in an area of music that is often times overlooked by traditional music programs;
Provide younger students with an opportunity to participate in the preparation and presentation of live performances with musicians that they would normally not be able to hear, live, until they are adults (most jazz performances are in night clubs and expensive concert halls);

Arts In Education Enrichment Program

Celebrating 20 years of empowering students through knowledge in the Arts!

Since 1976, Jazzmobile, Inc. has been implementing its renowned Arts Education Enrichment Program reaching over 200,000 students and parents in public schools throughout New York City. The students range from eight to fifteen years of age.

This model program has been funded by grants from various federal and city discretionary programs (ESAA Title VII, US Department of Justice – Delinquency Prevention, New York City Broad of Education – School and Community Collaborative Programs), amounting to over 2 million dollars to conduct Arts Education Enrichment Programs for thousands of New York City Public School children Community School Districts 3, 4, and 5 in Manhattan.

Using a multi-arts approach (music, dance, drama, poetry, visual and media arts), Jazzmobile's program is designed to teach and encourage students to express themselves through the creative arts. Creativity is applies to the traditional areas of study. Jazzmobile's Arts Education Enrichment Program model provides a vehicle through which the student can experience success, acquire self discipline, discover and develop a talent, and channel their energies into more positive and rewarding pursuits.

Project Goals:

Provide a music program which is multi-generational:

Create a learning opportunity for semi-professional adults and advanced students of all ages to receive training from very talented professionals;

Enable us to hire established and qualified, talented Jazz musicians;

Educate the students of New York City Public Schools in an area of music that is often times overlooked by traditional music programs;

Staff: Trumpet Chris Albert played and recorded with the legendary Count Basie Big Band, Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, Blood Sweat & Tears, Thad Jones, Billy Harper and Machito. Saxophone Frank Wess the legendary Jazz Flutist and Tenor Saxophonist has played extensively with nearly all of the Jazz greats throughout the world's best concert venues and on award (Grammy) winning recordings. He has appeared on Broadway and movie sound tracks, and has played with such notables as the Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Taylor, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, just to name a few. Charles Davis has recorded albums as a leader, and performed with John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Philly Jo Jones and Diana Washington among many others. He feels that to develop to your fullest you must perform, practice, study reading and learn and perform the melodies of Jazz masters...just like he has done throughout his impressive career. Roland Alexander has a Bachelor of music in Composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music. Mr. Alexander is a music educator having instructed in Music at Medgar Evers Community College and the Long Island University. He has recorded and played with such Jazz notables as Ron Carter, Frank Foster, Slide Hampton, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach and Thad Jones & Mel Lewis. Vibraphone Wilson Moorman is a vibraphonist and percussionist who has performs Jazz and European Classical Music. As a classical performer he has been a member of the New World Staten Island Symphony, Harlem Festival Orchestra. His Jazz performing career includes performing with Jay Hoggard, Larry Young (Khalid Yasin) Vibration Industrial Park. Electric Bass Darnell "Jay" Starks holds a Bachelors and Masters of Arts in Music from Lehman College. He teaches music in Newark, New Jersey. Starks has performed with the Bronx Symphony, New Muse Bass Violin Choir, Jazzmobile Big Band and The Sonelius Smith Quartet among others. Michael Fleming has performed with Roy Eldridge, Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Michael believes that to improve you must develop your listening skills, constantly practice and be able to play basic piano. He has recorded with Chet Baker and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Afro-Lation Percussion Roland Guerrero has performed with such Jazz great as Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine and various other Jazz artists. Guerrero is a guest lecturer and instructor for various Arts Schools and organization such as the New School and Manhattan School of Music.		Guitar Geary Moore is an accomplished composer as well as a master technician, he has performed with Peaches and Herb, Jon Faddis, Billy Drummond, Slide Hampton, T.S. Monk, John Lee, Bob Cranshaw, Phil Woods, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean, Regina Bell, David “Fat Head” Newman, Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, Jimmy Anderson, Dave Ubanks, Steve Nelson, Steve Turre, Ruth Brown, Jimmy McGriff, Gloria Coleman, Harold Vick, to name a few. Mr. Moore has performed as guitarist on albums by Jimmy Ponder (two albums), Don Williams, Lenny Roberts, Radamn Schwarz, Bradford Hayes and Lilly White. He also performed on two platinum albums with artist Joe, “My Name is Joe” and “All That I Am”. Rick Stone is an active performer and educator in the New York City area with his own recording label, "Jazzand". He has performed and recorded with Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Junior Cook, Ralph Lalama, Eric Alexander, Dennis Irwin, Billy Hart and Hal Galper at venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, The Blue Note and The Smithsonian Institute. Rick holds a B.M. from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. from the Aaron Copeland School of Music at Queens College, and has received several NEA Jazz Performance Fellowships and an IAJE Award for Outstanding Service to Jazz Education. Besides Jazzmobile, he teaches or has taught at Hofstra University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, City College, Harbor Cultural Center, Jazz In July Workshop at the Univ. of Mass./Amherst, and is a regular columnist for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine. Piano Danny Mixon, born and raised in Harlem, he began his career as a tap dancer, but fell in love with the Jazz piano during his teens. After years of playing with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton and Frank Foster, Danny has his own trio with Michael Carvin on drums and Lisle Atkinson on bass. Danny is popular among clubs, cruises and venues in New York City and Nationally. Ronnie Mathews a graduate from the Manhattan School of Music that has performed with such heavyweights as Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Dexter Gordon, and Johnny Griffin. Mr. Mathews has appeared on Broadway as the pianist for the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, "Black and Blue" and recorded on Spike Lee's movie, "Mo' Better Blues." Aside from the string of solo recordings done with various labels, he also teaches jazz piano workshops, clinics and masterclasses at Long Island University in New York City. In addition, he has published his book, "Easy Piano of Thelonious Monk" Acoustic Bass Mickey Bass has recorded albums with Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Art Blakey and Bobby Timmons and has been a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham and Billy Eckstine. He feels it is important to study harmony and ear training and in orderto build a truly personal concept one must practice, practice, practice. Bass has also made several recordings as a leader. Multiple Percussion Eli Fountain has performed with Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgil, Anthony Davis and Muhal Richard Abrams. He is a member of the group MBOOM RE: PERCUSSSION. Fountain believes it takes humility persistence and a good sense of direction and discipline to achieve a measure of greatness on your instrument.

Staff:

Trumpet

Chris Albert played and recorded with the legendary Count Basie Big Band, Lionel Hampton and his Orchestra, Blood Sweat & Tears, Thad Jones, Billy Harper and Machito.

Saxophone

Frank Wess the legendary Jazz Flutist and Tenor Saxophonist has played extensively with nearly all of the Jazz greats throughout the world's best concert venues and on award (Grammy) winning recordings. He has appeared on Broadway and movie sound tracks, and has played with such notables as the Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie, Billy Taylor, Billy Eckstine, Nat King Cole and Ella Fitzgerald, just to name a few.

Charles Davis has recorded albums as a leader, and performed with John Coltrane, Kenny Dorham, Philly Jo Jones and Diana Washington among many others. He feels that to develop to your fullest you must perform, practice, study reading and learn and perform the melodies of Jazz masters...just like he has done throughout his impressive career.

Roland Alexander has a Bachelor of music in Composition from the Boston Conservatory of Music. Mr. Alexander is a music educator having instructed in Music at Medgar Evers Community College and the Long Island University. He has recorded and played with such Jazz notables as Ron Carter, Frank Foster, Slide Hampton, Barry Harris, Philly Joe Jones, Max Roach and Thad Jones & Mel Lewis.

Vibraphone

Wilson Moorman is a vibraphonist and percussionist who has performs Jazz and European Classical Music. As a classical performer he has been a member of the New World Staten Island Symphony, Harlem Festival Orchestra. His Jazz performing career includes performing with Jay Hoggard, Larry Young (Khalid Yasin) Vibration Industrial Park.

Electric Bass

Darnell "Jay" Starks holds a Bachelors and Masters of Arts in Music from Lehman College. He teaches music in Newark, New Jersey. Starks has performed with the Bronx Symphony, New Muse Bass Violin Choir, Jazzmobile Big Band and The Sonelius Smith Quartet among others.

Michael Fleming has performed with Roy Eldridge, Mary Lou Williams, Coleman Hawkins and Rahsaan Roland Kirk. Michael believes that to improve you must develop your listening skills, constantly practice and be able to play basic piano. He has recorded with Chet Baker and Rahsaan Roland Kirk.

Afro-Lation Percussion

Roland Guerrero has performed with such Jazz great as Dizzy Gillespie, Stanley Turrentine and various other Jazz artists. Guerrero is a guest lecturer and instructor for various Arts Schools and organization such as the New School and Manhattan School of Music.

Guitar

Geary Moore is an accomplished composer as well as a master technician, he has performed with Peaches and Herb, Jon Faddis, Billy Drummond, Slide Hampton, T.S. Monk, John Lee, Bob Cranshaw, Phil Woods, Mulgrew Miller, Jackie McLean, Regina Bell, David “Fat Head” Newman, Willis “Gator Tail” Jackson, Jimmy Anderson, Dave Ubanks, Steve Nelson, Steve Turre, Ruth Brown, Jimmy McGriff, Gloria Coleman, Harold Vick, to name a few. Mr. Moore has performed as guitarist on albums by Jimmy Ponder (two albums), Don Williams, Lenny Roberts, Radamn Schwarz, Bradford Hayes and Lilly White. He also performed on two platinum albums with artist Joe, “My Name is Joe” and “All That I Am”.

Rick Stone is an active performer and educator in the New York City area with his own recording label, "Jazzand". He has performed and recorded with Kenny Barron, Barry Harris, Junior Cook, Ralph Lalama, Eric Alexander, Dennis Irwin, Billy Hart and Hal Galper at venues including Carnegie Hall's Weill Recital Hall, The Blue Note and The Smithsonian Institute. Rick holds a B.M. from Berklee College of Music and an M.A. from the Aaron Copeland School of Music at Queens College, and has received several NEA Jazz Performance Fellowships and an IAJE Award for Outstanding Service to Jazz Education. Besides Jazzmobile, he teaches or has taught at Hofstra University, Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, City College, Harbor Cultural Center, Jazz In July Workshop at the Univ. of Mass./Amherst, and is a regular columnist for Just Jazz Guitar Magazine.

Piano

Danny Mixon, born and raised in Harlem, he began his career as a tap dancer, but fell in love with the Jazz piano during his teens. After years of playing with Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton and Frank Foster, Danny has his own trio with Michael Carvin on drums and Lisle Atkinson on bass. Danny is popular among clubs, cruises and venues in New York City and Nationally.

Ronnie Mathews a graduate from the Manhattan School of Music that has performed with such heavyweights as Max Roach, Roy Haynes, Dexter Gordon, and Johnny Griffin. Mr. Mathews has appeared on Broadway as the pianist for the Tony Award winning Broadway musical, "Black and Blue" and recorded on Spike Lee's movie, "Mo' Better Blues." Aside from the string of solo recordings done with various labels, he also teaches jazz piano workshops, clinics and masterclasses at Long Island University in New York City. In addition, he has published his book, "Easy Piano of Thelonious Monk"

Acoustic Bass

Mickey Bass has recorded albums with Hank Mobley, Curtis Fuller, Art Blakey and Bobby Timmons and has been a sideman with Freddie Hubbard, Kenny Dorham and Billy Eckstine. He feels it is important to study harmony and ear training and in orderto build a truly personal concept one must practice, practice, practice. Bass has also made several recordings as a leader.

Multiple Percussion

Eli Fountain has performed with Sam Rivers, Henry Threadgil, Anthony Davis and Muhal Richard Abrams. He is a member of the group MBOOM RE: PERCUSSSION. Fountain believes it takes humility persistence and a good sense of direction and discipline to achieve a measure of greatness on your instrument.

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