Latin & Jazz - Masterclasses and Clinics

Festival Adjudicator & Clinician

• Thorough deconstruction and reconstruction of students’ performance at the College, High School, or Intermediate school levels.  

Studio Jazz Trombone

• Tone Quality
• Harmonic Application and treatment as related to the trombone
• Jazz Agility Exercises

 Studio Jazz Arranging

• Historical Perspective and Analysis of the greats—Nelson Riddle, Gil Evans, Sammy Nestico 
• Arranging in the Modern Era— modern harmony and voice-leading

• Sibelius & Finale 2010 as applied to jazz arranging, reducing playback dependency

Recording Strategies for Professional Environments 

• Strategies learned “in the trenches” that will encourage success during recordings
• Sight-reading with tips and strategies 

Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean Programs*
*Can be tailored and administered to high school, undergraduate and graduate levels.

Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean Masterclass

• Historical background and chronology—from religious chants to modern era recordings
• Roles of the instruments utilized in the idiom with audio and written examples
• Survey of rare and unreleased recordings, with analyses and transcriptions 

What is Clave? - a Workshop

• Identifying and improvising in and out of clave
• Improvising off the dominant chord to achieve a maximum degree of tension and release 

Composing and arranging Afro-Cuban and Afro-Caribbean music—a Clinic

• Historical chronology of master composers and arrangers of the idiom
• Survey and analysis of the great arrangers within the idiom, with audio and transcribed examples
• Maintaining clave throughout the length of the composition or arrangement
• Common and effective harmony and voice-leading within the idiom