Different Shades of Jazz Drumming with Alan Hall at California Jazz Conservatory

An exploration of the many different schools of jazz drumming, from dixieland to bebop to fusion to modal jazz to ECM to odd times. What factors distinguish these schools of playing from each other? We look into many aspects of jazz drumming including: cymbal tone and variation, pattern vs. non-pattern based approaches, oating time, broken time, ECM, hard bop and early fusion versus contemporary fusion. We will listen to and work through a number of examples covering the range of current approaches to jazz drumming. Alan Hall has performed and/or recorded with many jazz greats including: Paul McCandless, Russell Ferrante, Taylor Eigsti, Art Lande, Geoff Keezer, Jimmy Haslip, Kai Eckhardt, and vocalists Kenny Washington and Rebecca Parris...

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An exploration of the many different schools of jazz drumming, from dixieland to bebop to fusion to modal jazz to ECM to odd times. What factors distinguish these schools of playing from each other? We look into many aspects of jazz drumming including: cymbal tone and variation, pattern vs. non-pattern based approaches, oating time, broken time, ECM, hard bop and early fusion versus contemporary fusion. We will listen to and work through a number of examples covering the range of current approaches to jazz drumming. Alan Hall has performed and/or recorded with many jazz greats including: Paul McCandless, Russell Ferrante, Taylor Eigsti, Art Lande, Geoff Keezer, Jimmy Haslip, Kai Eckhardt, and vocalists Kenny Washington and Rebecca Parris. HeÕs worked with Cirque Du Soleil in NYC and Teatro Zinzanni in San Francisco. Alan taught drum set and ensembles at Berklee College of Music for seven years and he currently teaches drum set and ensembles at California Jazz Conservatory in Berkeley and Cal State University East Bay in Hayward. He is the author of several articles and a drum book titled: ÒInternalizationÓ- A non-reading intensive approach to mastery of the jazz drumming language. He is a proud endorser of Brooks Drums, Zildjian Cymbals, Aquarian Accessories and Vic Firth Sticks.

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