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SUMMARY:2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium: "Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us from Wednesday\, September 11–Saturday\, September 14 for the 2024 Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium in Guelph\, Ontario\, Canada. \nThis year’s event\, titled “Sheets of Sound: Jazz\, Improvisation\, and Liner Notes\,” draws inspiration from jazz critic and historian Ira Gitler’s description of legendary jazz saxophonist John Coltrane’s 1958 recording Soultrane. Gitler famously coined the phrase\, “sheets of sound” to describe Coltrane’s playing. The event also takes its cues from Daphne Brooks’ recent work\, Liner Notes for the Revolution: The Intellectual Life of Black Feminist Sound\, highlighting the overlooked contributions of Black women in the history of popular music. Dr. Brooks\, one of the colloquium’s keynote speakers\, will present a compelling new work on Friday from 2:30–3:45 PM\, titled “Liner Notes for the Hurricane: Crate Digging for Porgy and Bess.” The other keynote speaker\, Ashley Kahn\, a prolific American music historian\, will deliver a presentation on Thursday from 3:45–4:45 PM\, titled “Liner Noting in the Time of Streaming.”\n \nThis colloquium will take place in person at ImprovLab (Room 108 MacKinnon Building) on the University of Guelph Campus. The event is free and open to everybody. \n\nMore About This Event:\nSince 1996 the Guelph Jazz Festival Colloquium\, co-presented by the University of Guelph in partnership with the Guelph Jazz Festival\, has brought together diverse communities of interest by providing a scholarly forum for dialogue among researchers\, creative practitioners\, arts presenters\, and members of the general public. \nThe focus of this year’s colloquium is “Liner Notes” \nIn what ways have liner notes shaped the way the music is received? To what extent do liner notes contribute to the ways in which we negotiate and construct meaning about the music\, how we understand history\, how and why we listen? In what ways have digital dissemination and streaming services disrupted our notions of liner notes? And how has this shifted listener/audience understanding about their favourite artists? \nThe learn more about this year’s presenters and to see a full schedule\, please follow this link to the colloquium web portal.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/2024gjfc-sheets-of-sound-jazz-improvisation-and-liner-notes/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240914T150000
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SUMMARY:KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble - Final Performance at the Guelph Jazz Festival
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Saturday\, September 14 at 3:00 PM (ET) for a public performance by the “KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble” at the Guelph Jazz Festival.\n \nThis performance will take place in person at TD Market Square\, Downtown Guelph. The event is free and open to everybody.\n \nMore About This Event:\nSince 2007\, KidsAbility and the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation (IICSI) have partnered to bring award-winning musicians to support youth with varying developmental and physical needs. Play Who You Are includes a FREE series of musical improvisation workshops which culminate in a FREE public performance at the Guelph Jazz Festival. The KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble will be facilitated by Ben Finley. \nThis year\, the workshops take place on August 12th (info session)\, 14th\, 19th\, 21st\, and September 4th from 7-8 pm at ImprovLab\, located on the University of Guelph Campus. The final culminating performance will take place at the Guelph Jazz Festival on Saturday\, September 14th. \nMore About the Facilitator:\nBen Finley is an experienced collaborative and solo performer\, composer\, singer\, improviser\, and writer grounded in creative acoustic and electric bass playing. He leads and co-leads several ensembles and grew up on a music festival farm – Westben! He is a current Ph.D. candidate in the Critical Studies in Improvisation program at the University of Guelph. \nThe KidsAbility Play Who You Are Ensemble will also be joined onstage by the IICSI Improvisers-in-Residence\, Jimmy Weinstein (drums\, piano\, guitar\, composer) and Lilly Santon (vocalist\, visual arts). \nFor more information\, and to register to participate in Play Who You Are\, contact Taylor Graham at improvce@uoguelph.ca.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/kidsability-play-who-you-are-ensemble/
LOCATION:TD Market Square\, Guelph\, ON\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Toronto:20240927T110000
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SUMMARY:Thinking Spaces: Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon\, "Building a Safe Creativity Environment"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, September 27 at 11:00 AM (ET) for Thinking Spaces: “Building a Safe Creativity Environment” with Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon\, a featured event in the Ontario Culture Days calendar! \n\nThis presentation will take place in person at ImprovLab\, MCKN 108 at the University of Guelph\, as well as online via IICSI’s new Twitch Stream. As always\, our Thinking Spaces events are free! \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms. \n\nMore about this talk:\nJimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon founded Travelling School in 2002 in Padova\, Italy with the mission to teach jazz and improvisation as applied to general education. Many different projects grew out of this initiative. Drawing on their life in music and in association with other musicians\, they create workshops at jazz festivals\, music schools and regular schools.Over the course of twenty-two years since the founding of Travelling School\, Jimmy Weinstein and Lilly Santon have developed a highly effective methodology for introducing concepts taken from jazz improvisation. These concepts can be applied to general and special education situations and dynamics. Today\, their introduction to these creative and educational concepts takes the shape of their workshop: Building a Safe Creativity Environment. \n\nSome of the points that will be outlined in this workshop could be: \n1. Inclusion with the self: Self inclusion exercises (most evident when one feels embarrassed). \n2. High Energy Encouragement: Positive high energy received in the moment of improvisation as a teacher. Real ability to improvise a class\, and how to develop this. \n3. Inclusion of conflict and disruption: Using disruption as catalyst for the improvising teacher applied in real life class dynamics. \n4. The Concert Game: The game of the 30 second concert presented as a game for kids. \n5. Listening to jazz pieces and transposing the emotion into a solo or interactive performance/concert. \nMore about the Speakers:\nJimmy Weinstein / drums\, piano\, guitar\, composer \nBorn in Chicago\, Jimmy moved with his family to California and Spain. A Berklee College of Music alumnus ’89 and leader of a consortium of New York based ensembles\, Jimmy has been on the move for over 25 years\, touring the US\, Europe and Japan.  Major associations include recordings and tours with virtuoso improvisers\, Ahmed Abdullah\, Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Satoko Fujii\, Alex Harding\, Jeff Parker\, Oscar Noriega\, Natsuki Tamura\, Frank Carlberg\, Elie Massias\, Dan Fox\, Sten Hostfalt\, Masa Kamaguchi and Matt Renzi.  As a sideman he has worked supporting Sheila Jordan\, Noah Preminger\, Rachel Gould\, Greg Burk\, Marcello Tonolo and Reggie Veal.  \nIn collaboration with Abdullah\, Harding and Kamaguchi he founded the adventurous and highly acclaimed melodic quartet NAM\, whose album Song of Time was voted among the top 25 all time live performances by critic Kevin Whitehead. As a leader\, his discography contains albums released by Fresh Sound\, Clean Feed\, Accurate\, CIMP\, El Gallo Rojo and Gunther Schuller’s GM Recordings.  Among Weinstein’s current projects\, is a quartet featuring the pianist extraordinaire Satoko Fujii\, in addition to trumpeter Natsuki Tamura and vocalist Lilly Santon . As a teacher\, Weinstein’s experience has brought forth TRAVELING SCHOOL PLAYJAZZ\, an organization dedicated to conducting jazz workshops where he often performs with his students.  Jimmy’s new quintet features Chris Cheek\, Ben Monder\, Tom Beckham and Dave Ambrosio\, all musicians who he has worked with over the past 25 years\, coming together to perform Jimmy’s new compositions on his latest album “Sobrinos”.  \nTraveling School Playjazz has been organizing the yearly jazz workshop at the acclaimed Mallorca Jazz Sa Pobla Festival since 2006.  Over the years Jimmy has coordinated workshops with leading artists including Lee Konitz\, Sheila Jordan\, Chris Cheek\, Dennis Irwin\, Matt Garrison\, Noah Preminger\, Dan Fox\, Toni Miranda\, Pedro Cortejosa\, Perico Sambeat\, Marco Mezquida\, Paolo Porta and Carlo Cattano.  \nLilly / Liliana Santon / vocalist \nLilly Santon trained as an architect before venturing into the world of jazz and energy therapy. After spending her formative years in Brazil\, she attended middle and high school in Padua\, Italy and received her degree in architecture from the University of Venice. \nLilly lived in New York and Munich between 1980 and 2003 where she worked as an architect and studied jazz with the likes of Barry Harris\, Sheila Jordan\, Mark Murphy and Jay Clayton. During the 80’s in New York she performed with Don Cherry’s Collective Ensemble alongside Jim Pepper\, Bob Moses\, Dennis Charles and Clarence “C” Sharpe. While deepening her musical studies\, she trained in bio-energetic therapy\, which has been integrated into her teaching methods in private classes and workshops. In 2003\, she moved to Italy and Spain\, and co-founded the Cultural Association Traveling School. Lilly performs regularly with Satoko Fujii\, Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, and different formations of the Traveling School Band. \nProjects include Sten Hosfalt’s Microtonal Ensemble Dimensional States; vocal duet improvisations with renowned composer Constance Cooper; 2014 appereances in NYC recording sessions with Jimmy Weinstein Quintet\, Noah Preminger. New collaborations 2016/2017 include Johnny Lapio’s Porta Palace featuring Satoko Fukjii\, Giancarlo Schiaffini and Natsuki Tamura.  Story Told By Sound a multi-media project with Elie Massias and Jimmy Weinstein. \nTo attend the talk in-person or online\, RSVP via our Google Forms.
URL:https://improvisationinstitute.ca/event/thinking-spaces-jimmy-weinstein-and-lilly-santon-building-a-safe-creativity-environment/
LOCATION:ImprovLab\, MacKinnon Room 108\, 87 Trent Lane\, University of Guelph\, Guelph\, Ontario\, N1G 1Y4\, Canada
CATEGORIES:IICSI events,Thinking Spaces
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