We finally graduated …

[Translate] When we became parents, Terri and I had certain well-defined ideas about how we would go about raising our children and inculcating certain ideals into their fabric along the way. Everything was going great for the first ten years or so. Then, the teenage years hit. Don’t get me wrong, our children were “good kids” and I wouldn’t change them for the...

12:30 COMBO | REAL BOOKS and more…

[Translate] ABOUT REAL BOOKS KCYJ Combo Students will need to have their own copy of the Real Book, Volume 1, 6th Edition (Hal Leonard Publishing) in their personal library from this point forward.  We will essentially use these books as reference resources to melody lines and chord changes used in some of the standard jazz compositions selected for performance and study. In addition to the...

KCYJ SUMMER SESSION 12:30 Combo

[Translate] 12:30 TECHNICAL STUDIES The 12:30 Combo will be studying Major and Minor Pentatonic Scale applications during the KCYJ 2010 Summer Session.  This is a continuation of our work studying the Blues Form and Melodic Minor Scale Harmony. We will also be learning the following for performance: 12:30 JAZZ LITERATURE Little Sunflower (Freddie Hubbard) Freddie Hubbard –...