Course Dates: July 10 to July 23, 2011
Application Deadline: May 16, 2011 - The deadline for this workshop has passed.

Improvise in numerous styles and groups under the guidance of international superstars! For ALL INSTRUMENTS AND VOICES!

• Rehearse side-by-side with members of the acclaimed group “bug” and other musicians.
• Feedback from icons of improvisation.
• Intensive private and group improvisation instruction.
• Perform with peers and faculty in a variety of settings.
• Compose and then perform your music.
• Established groups (string quartets, jazz trios) and atypical instruments (banjo, accordion) welcome!
• This workshop will culminate in a public performance of student work.

Undergraduate: MUSIC 423, 3 units
Graduate: MUSIC 623, 3 units


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Open to ALL musicians of ALL levels, including winds, strings, percussion, vocals, and live electronics. Students need to have basic musical facility and demonstrate a desire to improvise. Established ensembles are encouraged to apply as a group!

1. Submit a 200-word personal statement describing your interest in this workshop, your musical experience, your experience with improvisation (if any), and any ensemble experience. If available, include a CD/DVD or web link where we can hear you performing.
2. Send the materials listed in step one with your completed Registration Form to the Summer Arts office by May 16, 2011 - The deadline has been extended. Contact the Course Coordinator for details..

Professor Benjamin Boone
bboone@benjaminboone.com
559-278-7717



Poncho Sanchez       www.ponchosanchez.com
If music were about pictures, percussionist Poncho Sanchez's music would best be described as a kaleidoscopic swirl of some of the hottest colors and brightest lights to emerge from either side of the border. At any given show, on any given record, fragments of Latin jazz, swing, bebop, salsa and other infectious grooves collide and churn in a fiery swirl, with results that are no less than dazzling. Whether it's salsa, straightahead jazz, Latin jazz, or even elements of soul and blues, the mesmerizing array of sounds and colors from Mr. Sanchez's youth have telegraphed across the decades and continue to inform his creative sensibilities to this day. "There's room for a lot of different sounds in our music," he says. "I think people have come to know that that's what Poncho Sanchez is all about. We put it all together in a pot, boil it together and come out with a big stew. This isn't some marketing strategy to sell records. These are the sounds I grew up with. So when I play this music, I'm not telling a lie. I'm telling my story. This is the real thing."

Josh Roseman      www.joshroseman.com
Josh Roseman is a New York-based trombonist, composer, and producer who has worked with a wide range of improvising artists, including John Zorn, Dave Douglas’ Sextet, Dave Holland’s Grammy-winning Big Band, Steve Coleman, Don Byron, Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy, Uri Caine’s Mahler Ensemble, the SFJAZZ Collective, Steve Turre, Ron Blake, and Oliver Lake.

Mr. Roseman is also known for his work with creative electric artists Me’Shell NdegeOcello, Medeski, Martin & Wood, Charlie Hunter, and the Groove Collective & Brooklyn Funk Essentials, of which he was a founding member.

Mr. Roseman’s electric quintet, the JRU, has headlined at the Berlin Jazztage, the Zurich Jazz festival, Jazz Wilisau, Jazz Coutances, the Nijmegen, festival and elsewhere. His other projects include an acoustic quintet, an improvising trombone ensemble, an eight-piece avant-ska and reggae ensemble and a new 11-piece big band. He has also appeared as a featured soloist with international artists such as Bojan Z (a French-Serbian piano virtuoso and winner of the 2005 European Jazz prize,) John Aram & the Geneva Downtown Orchestra, the Chris Hale Ensemble (a chamber trio in Melbourne, Australia,) and with Italian composer/pianist Riccardo Fassi.

Mr. Roseman’s three solo albums were recorded in cooperation with ENJA records. They include Cherry, an “ironic” rock-jazz recording; Treats for the Nightwalker, a forward-thinking funk concept album featuring the contributions of an improvising string section; and New Constellations, a neo-Caribbean live remix album recorded onstage at Joe Zawinul’s Birdland in Vienna and reinterpreted in New York City.

His albums have been featured on NPR, in Downbeat, Jazztimes and have received accolades in the London Guardian, Germany's JAZZTHING, German Rolling Stone, the Süddeutsche Zeitung, Musica Jazz, and elsewhere.

Mr. Roseman is active as a trombone and improvisation coach, and has instructed at the New School for Social Research, NYU, the Harlem School for the Arts, and at the Banff Centre in Alberta Canada. He lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, where he is developing a cooperative production and performance facility.

Theo Bleckmann     www.theobleckmann.com
A jazz singer and new music composer of eclectic tastes and prodigious gifts, Grammy-nominated and ECHO award recipient Theo Bleckmann makes music that is accessibly sophisticated, unsentimentally emotional, and seriously playful, leading his work to be described as “from another planet” (The New York Times), as “magical, futuristic,” (AllAboutJazz), “limitless” (Citypaper) “transcendent” (Village Voice) and “brilliant” (New York Magazine).

Mr. Bleckmann has released a series of gorgeous and irreverent albums on Winter & Winter, including recordings of Las Vegas standards, of Berlin Kabarett, and of popular “bar songs” (all with pianist Fumio Yasuda), a recording of newly-arranged songs by Charles Ives (with jazz/rock collective Kneebody), and his new acoustic Solos for Voice “I dwell in possibility”

Additionally he has collaborated with musicians and composers, including Laurie Anderson, Philip Glass, John Hollenbeck, Sheila Jordan, Phil Kline, David Lang, Kirk Nurock, Ben Monder, Michael Tilson Thomas, Julia Wolfe, John Zorn, the Bang on a Can All-stars, and, most prominently, Meredith Monk, with whom Bleckmann worked as a core ensemble member for fifteen years. He has recently been interview by Terry Gross on NPR’s Fresh Air and appeared on Late Show with David Letterman with Laurie Anderson.

Ben Monder     www.benmonder.com
A musician in the New York area for 25 years, Ben Monder has performed with a variety of artists, including Jack McDuff, Marc Johnson, Lee Konitz, George Garzone, Tim Berne, and Kenny Wheeler. He is a regular member of the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and the Paul Motian Octet, as well as many other projects. He has conducted clinics and workshops around the world, and served on the faculty of the New England Conservatory from 2002-2005. Mr. Monder continues to perform original music internationally with his own quartet, trio, and in a duo project with vocalist Theo Bleckmann. He has appeared on more than 100 CDs as a sideman, and has released four as a leader: Oceana (Sunnyside, 2005), Excavation (Arabesque, 2000), Dust (Arabesque, 1997), and Flux (Songlines,1995).

Tim Ries    www.timries.com
Saxophonist and composer Tim Ries has toured with The Rolling Stones and recorded and/or performed with Donald Fagan, Paul Simon, Sheryl Crow, Stevie Wonder and Blood Sweat & Tears. He has also collaborated with many jazz artists including Phil Woods, Dave Liebman, Danilo Perez, Maynard Ferguson, Red Garland, Badal Roy, and Maria Schneider.

Ensemble in Residence: bug      www.bugtet.com
Bringing together the creative talents of five gifted musicians, bug is modern in conception while still grounded deeply in the jazz tradition. Drawing on an eclectic range of influences, the compositions are marked by a clear sense of melody, a cinematic scope of orchestration, and a sense of openness that lets the band interact at the highest levels. The infectious grooves laid down by the rhythm section allow the lead instruments to create freely, blurring the line between the composed and improvised sections of the music.

“Origin Records recording artist ‘bug,’ enters the playing field as a cast of seasoned players … luring you into a pool of creative melodies, edgy chords, and throaty harmonics that swells infinitely with boldness…more than a pleasure to listen to …” The Urban Flux

Members of bug are:

James Miley, piano   www.jamesmiley.net		Jeff Miley, guitar   www.jeffmiley.com
Roger Shew, bass   music.fullcoll.edu/faculty/shewr.shtml		Brian Hamada, drums   www.brianhamada.com

Hashem Assadullahi    www.hashemjazz.com
Hashem Assadullahi is a saxophonist who loves to make music. He leads several projects and plays as a sideman in various ensembles based in both New York City and on the West Coast, performing music ranging from the big band repertoire of the swing era, to straight-ahead styles, to contemporary projects. In recent years he has performed with Ron Miles, Ben Monder, Wayne Horvitz, Tatsuya Nakatani, Rich Perry, Mark Ferber, and Motown’s The Platters. In addition to his own release, The Strange Neighbor, he has recorded with several ensembles, appearing on the albums Live at Jo Fed’s with the Poisonous Birds, The Turning Point with the Douglas Detrick Quintet, as well as Walking Across, and Rivers Music with the Anywhen Ensemble.

Todd DelGiudice      todddelgiudice.com
Clarinetist Todd DelGiudice has performed professionally with The Florida Philharmonic, The New World Symphony, Ray Charles, The Woody Herman Big Band, and Natalie Cole, among many others. He was the principal clarinetist of the Oregon Mozart Players and bass clarinetist for the Eugene Opera, and has performed with the Eugene Symphony, the American Symphonia under James Paul, and the Eugene Ballet. In addition to playing lead alto with The Bob Curnow Big Band and is a member of The Free Range Sax Quartet, has also maintained an active jazz career, playing in small groups and big bands around town as well as being featured as a jazz clarinet soloist with Ken Peplowski during Eugene's renowned Festival of American Music.