5 Great Ways to Educate Your Ears! 1: Swing U with Phil Schaap and guests 2: Jazz Talk 3: Jazz for Young People® 4: Essentially Ellington 5: WeBop! Back to Overview	Swing University with Phil Schaap and guests Irene Diamond Education Center (IDEC) 6:30pm–8:30pm *(EXCEPT WHERE NOTED) Hear your favorite music anew as Phil Schaap and friends share their insights, expertise and tall tales. Learn about jazz from the musicians who make it and the scholars who study it during Swing University, which offers 4 & 8-week evening adult education courses for every knowledge level. ALL YEAR (3 TERMS) JAZZ EXPERT WEDNESDAYS with Phil Schaap Wednesdays, September 24, 2008-May 20, 2009 3-term, 8-class session: $552.50 Special package comprising JAZZ 101, JAZZ 201 & JAZZ 301, which extends all three terms. Save 15%! FALL 2008 TERM DRUMS AND THE RHYTHM SECTION with Lewis Nash Mondays, 9/15; 9/22; 10/6; and 10/20 4-class session: $125 Drumming giant Lewis Nash will guide you to understand the workings of the rhythm section and the musical blending that distinguishes great rhythm sections. This course will help you recognize drum stylists such as Art Blakey, Big Sid Catlett, Papa Jo Jones and Max Roach. CHARLIE CHRISTIAN with Vincent Pelote Mondays, 10/27; 11/3; 11/17; and 12/1 4-class session: $125 Charlie Christian was the essential pioneer of the electric guitar and one of the Swing Era's rhythmic revolutionaries. Guitarist Vincent Pelote is librarian of the Institute of Jazz Studies. JOHN COLTRANE with Phil Schaap Tuesdays, 9/16; 9/23; 10/7; 10/14; 10/21; 10/28; 11/4; and 11/11 8-class session: $200 John Coltrane dominated jazz during the early and middle 1960s playing primarily tenor sax. Trane played bebop, helped start Hard Bop and the use of modes in jazz, then took the art form to new places and heights. THE SWING ERA with Carline Ray Tuesdays, 9/16; 9/23; 10/7; 10/14; 10/21; 10/28; 11/4; and 11/11 8-class session: $200 Bassist, guitarist, vocalist, and educator, Carline Ray, is the widow of Louis Armstrong’s musical director, Luis Russell, and the mother of pop singing sensation Catherine Russell. JAZZ 101 with Phil Schaap Wednesdays, 9/24; 10/1; 10/15; 10/22; 10/29; 11/5; 11/12; and 11/19 8-class session: $200 Discover the A to Z of jazz. Meet the Crescent City pioneers who taught musicians everywhere how to swing and the Big Band Era heartthrobs who brought jazz into prime time. Relive the bebop revolution and follow its descendents – cool, hard bop, modal and free jazz – into the Modern Era. JAZZ PIANO ICONS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE with Dick Katz Wednesdays, 9/24; 10/1; 10/15; 10/22; 10/29; 11/5; 11/12; and 11/19 8-class session: $200 Tour the history of jazz piano with two-time Grammy® nominee for jazz writing and celebrated pianist, Dick Katz. Learn the difference between ragtime and stride, what it mean to "comp" or to "voice" a chord and more as you study innovators such as Fats Waller, Thelonious Monk and Herbie Hancock. WINTER 2009 TERM BIX BEIDERBECKE with Randy Sandke Mondays, 1/12; 1/26; 2/2; and 2/9 4-class session: $125 Bix Beiderbecke, who played the trumpet-like cornet, was a giant of improvisation who helped make jazz a soloists’ music in the 1920s. Trumpeter Randy Sandke plays Bix’s music worldwide and is a founder of the forthcoming Bix Beiderbecke Museum. ORNETTE COLEMAN with Ben Young Tuesdays, 2/17; 2/24; 3/3; and 3/10 4-class session: $125 Alto saxophonist, Ornette Coleman created a new approach to jazz music in the mid-late 1950s called free jazz. In 2007, Ornette won the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Grammy® nominated jazz historian Ben Young has been the Director of WKCR since 2004. JAZZ 101 with Phil Schaap Tuesdays, 1/20; 1/27; 2/3; 2/10; 2/17; 2/24; 3/3; and 3/10 8-class session: $200 Discover the A to Z of jazz. Meet the Crescent City pioneers who taught musicians everywhere how to swing and the Big Band Era heartthrobs who brought jazz into prime time. Relive the bebop revolution and follow its descendents – cool, hard bop, modal and free jazz – into the Modern Era. JAZZ 201 with Phil Schaap Wednesdays, 1/21; 1/28; 2/4; 2/11; 2/18; 2/25; 3/4; and 3/11 8-class session: $200 These in-depth sessions will open your ears to the music of known and lesser-known masters. How did King Oliver help invent the jazz solo? What was Bill Evans' role in Miles Davis's Kind of Blue? In Jazz 201 you'll learn to hear the details. SPRING 2009 TERM LESTER YOUNG with Don Byron Mondays, 3/23; 3/30; 4/6; and 4/13 4-class session: $125 Tenor saxophonist Lester Young was the primary soloist in the original Count Basie Orchestra and Billie Holiday’s favorite accompanist. Clarinetist Don Byron uses Young’s unique lingo and music in a most convincing and individual way. BEBOP! with Vincent Gardner Tuesdays, 3/24; 3/31; 4/7; 4/14; 4/21; 4/28; 5/5; and 5/12 8-class session: $200 Virtuosity, fuller harmonies and a new rhythmic sense established this sound as a new type of jazz. Join JLCO trombonist Vincent Gardner for a close look at how Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie paved the way for other masters of this innovative sound. JAZZ 101 with Phil Schaap Tuesdays, 3/24; 3/31; 4/7; 4/14; 4/21; 4/28; 5/5; and 5/12 8-class session: $200 (Introductory) Discover the A to Z of jazz. Meet the Crescent City pioneers who taught musicians everywhere how to swing and the Big Band Era heartthrobs who brought jazz into prime time. Relive the bebop revolution and follow its descendents – cool, hard bop, modal and free jazz – into the Modern Era. RAGTIME & JAZZ with Terry Waldo Wednesdays, 3/25; 4/1; 4/15; 4/22; 4/29; 5/6; 5/13; and 5/20 8-class session: $200 Pianist-scholar Terry Waldo takes us back to the 19th century and Jazz in its pre-dawn. Our own Wynton Marsalis cites Terry as the guy to go to for the study of Ragtime. JAZZ 301 with Phil Schaap Wednesdays, 3/25; 4/1; 4/15; 4/22; 4/29; 5/6; and 5/20* 7-class session: $250 You may know King Oliver, but what about Freddie Keppard? Can you distinguish John Coltrane from Sonny Rollins by ear? These intensive three-hour classes will help you answer these questions as we chart the same Jazz 101 and 201 trajectory but in greater depth. An optional final will be given two weeks after the last class, outstanding students will receive a certificate signed by Wynton Marsalis and Phil Schaap. *This is a three-hour class and a six week course. The 7th class is the optional final.