CANTO AMÉRICA with Wayne Wallace at California Jazz Conservatory

A 2-part workshop for conceptualizing, arranging, and recording a multi-level Latin jazz project. Musicians of all genres are welcome to participate to foster better understanding between the different musical disciplines. Students are encouraged to bring works in progress and/or original conceptual ideas to be developed in a collaborative format.

Topics to be covered include: Roots and folkloric music, composition and arranging techniques, working in the recording studio, extending the tradition and the “Future and Beyond.” The purpose of this workshop is to help inspire and motivate composers and arrangers to combine the music of Latin jazz and folkloric Afro-Caribbean music with classical music form and orchestration. Our goal is to revitalize the concept of a strong rhythmic foundation over which the harmonic and orchestral elements of classical music can be featured....

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A 2-part workshop for conceptualizing, arranging, and recording a multi-level Latin jazz project. Musicians of all genres are welcome to participate to foster better understanding between the different musical disciplines. Students are encouraged to bring works in progress and/or original conceptual ideas to be developed in a collaborative format.

Topics to be covered include: Roots and folkloric music, composition and arranging techniques, working in the recording studio, extending the tradition and the “Future and Beyond.” The purpose of this workshop is to help inspire and motivate composers and arrangers to combine the music of Latin jazz and folkloric Afro-Caribbean music with classical music form and orchestration. Our goal is to revitalize the concept of a strong rhythmic foundation over which the harmonic and orchestral elements of classical music can be featured.

Professor Wayne Wallace has received multi-Grammy nominations for recordings in the Latin jazz and popular music categories, the most recent being in 2014 for the Wayne Wallace Latin Jazz Quintet recording Latin Jazz/Jazz Latin. This CD has received widespread critical acclaim in addition to the Grammy nomination. His success as a recording musician is well documented, with experience dating back over 35 years. He has produced and arranged seminal recordings in this genre, and performed all around the world.

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