Guitar Arrangements And Improvisations For Solo Guitar: Jazz And Pop Tunes With Jan Jakut at California Jazz Conservatory

"Explore American Popular Music from Gershwin and Mingus to The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. Learn about musical concepts of contemporary performers like Julian Lage and Kazuki Isogai from a solo guitar perspective. How can you develop a musical syntax and vocabulary that allows you to play songs and improvise unaccompanied with one instrument only? The workshop centers around an in-depth look at detailed transcriptions of Bill Frisell’s and Julian Lage’s solo performances of jazz standards, traditional pieces and American popular music and also explores the innovations of master solo guitarists Jim Hall, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jimmy Wyble, Ted Greene and Joe Pass. A deeper look into rhythmic/percussive, harmonic and melodic concepts reveals straightforward and compelling ways to play a tune. Attendees learn to apply music theory to the fretboard and receive access to about 100 pages worth of professionally laid out transcriptions, arrangements and learning materials....

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"Explore American Popular Music from Gershwin and Mingus to The Beach Boys, Jimi Hendrix and Kurt Cobain. Learn about musical concepts of contemporary performers like Julian Lage and Kazuki Isogai from a solo guitar perspective. How can you develop a musical syntax and vocabulary that allows you to play songs and improvise unaccompanied with one instrument only? The workshop centers around an in-depth look at detailed transcriptions of Bill Frisell’s and Julian Lage’s solo performances of jazz standards, traditional pieces and American popular music and also explores the innovations of master solo guitarists Jim Hall, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jimmy Wyble, Ted Greene and Joe Pass. A deeper look into rhythmic/percussive, harmonic and melodic concepts reveals straightforward and compelling ways to play a tune. Attendees learn to apply music theory to the fretboard and receive access to about 100 pages worth of professionally laid out transcriptions, arrangements and learning materials.
Jan Jakut is an electric-guitarist based in Seattle, Washington. Confronting the musical aesthetics of Hendrix and Cobain with textures derived from Jazz, 50s and 60s instrumental music, his music explores contemporary genres in a jazz setting. Working on his first EP he is poised and determined to tour his music. He studied for his Master's degree in Jazz and Improvised Music with the Helen A. Reynolds Endowed Scholarship in Music and worked as Teaching Assistant at the University of Washington, Seattle. His first publication for Schott Music International was released in early 2015, in 2016 he was one of the finalists in Lee Ritenour's Six String Theory Music Competition. With Juju Music Edition he releases customized transcriptions of full solo guitar performances, arrangements and educational material specially written for solo jazz guitar & fingerstyle guitar.
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