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Bird Boot Camp + Musical Salute Featuring Tia Fuller at Spotlight: Charlie Parker at Paseo Academy Of Fine And Performing Arts
Courtesy of Christopher Burnett | Posted on August 16, 2023
Where
Paseo Academy Of Fine And Performing Arts
Spotlight: Charlie Parker
4747 Flora Ave
Kansas City, MO
Map
(816) 418-2275
When
Sat, August 19, 2023
9:30 am
Save the date
Musicians
Tia Fuller
saxophoneGreg Carroll
vibraphoneChristopher Burnett
saxophone, altoMichael Parkinson
trumpetClarence Smith
drumsAbout
When Grammy-nominated Mack Avenue recording artist, composer, and bandleader Tia Fuller picks up her saxophone, something amazing happens. Blending technical brilliance, melodic creativity, and the performing precision drawn from both her academic and stage experience, Fuller is a force to be reckoned with in the worlds of jazz, pop, R&B, and more. Currently, Fuller balances the worlds of performance and education, fulfilling a demanding schedule as both a busy touring and recording artist and a full-time professor at the Berklee College of Music in Boston.
BIRD BOOT CAMP began in 2014 as part of the original Charlie Parker celebration that was initiated (Spotlight: Charlie Parker) by the Jazz catalyst nonprofit organization, Kansas City Jazz A.L.I.V.E. The originator of the Boot Camp program idea was Greg Carroll, who partnered with Clarence Smith and they successfully modeled their one-day educational (Charlie Parker Student Music Boot Camp) event after some of the premier jazz camps and other music education programming they’d developed or initiated at various points in their respective professional careers over the years....