Live at the Blue Note: ArtistWorks Jazz Allstars
Tue, 04/25/2017 - 12:51pm
Making their debut performance at the Blue Note Napa, we're proud to introduce the ArtistWorks Jazz Allstars! Featuring Eric Marienthal on sax, George Whitty on keys, Nathan East on bass, and Peter Erskine on drums. This was an incredibly rare lineup of ArtistWorks teachers and we were honored to film it for our students here!
As an ArtistWorks Exclusive, we've just added a special 2-part segment we recorded before the show about their ideas and methods on improvisation.
Also available:
- "Northern Cross" by Peter Erskine from the album First Steps Ahead and recently rearranged for his Dr.Um album.
- "Sir Duke", the Stevie Wonder hit re-imagined by Nathan East for this version that appeared on his debut solo album.
- "101 Eastbound", written by Nathan East
- "Baby Cakes", written by Eric Marienthal & Jeff Lorber
- "Hipnotherapy", written by Peter Erskine
- "Goodbye Flash Superboy", written by George Whitty
- "Renaissance Man", written by George Whitty
- "Puentes", written by Chuck Loeb & Eric Marienthal
- "Hawaii Bathing Suite", written by Peter Erskine
- "Last Minute Blues", written by Chuck Loeb & Eric Marienthal
- Plus "How to Prepare for a Gig" and more!
It's all available in the Learn Area, here's how to find it: From anywhere within your school, click on the Learn icon on the left, then choose the +Music tab, and in there you’ll see it labled as "ArtistWorks Jazz Allstars - Live at the Blue Note in Napa".
Around The World in 5 days...
Sat, 09/17/2016 - 9:00am
Hello from Johannesburg, South Africa! After 30 years on tour, I finally made it to the continent of Africa, and am totally enjoying the experience. Last week, clinics for Yamaha on their incredible new keyboard, the Montage, then back to LA for 5 days, now to Johannesburg with a great band fronted by Bill Champlin (from Chicago, wrote a bunch of hits including "Hard Habit to Break" and "Turn Your Love Around"), Brenda Russell (who wrote "Piano In The Dark" and "Get Her (If You Can)), and Deniece Williams ("Too Much Too Little Too Late", "Gonna Take A Miracle", "Let's Hear It For The Boy"). Whirlwind rehearsals, much jet lag, and many tracks to do from the hotel room for various projects!
Below is my "hotel rig": MacBook Pro, Bose noise-cancelling headphones, the iRig Pro 37 keyboard and, just entering my rig, a replacement breath controller that I just integrated today. And of course, the all-essential pot of coffee!
What Is Jazz?
Thu, 07/14/2016 - 1:38pm
For anyone who's ever wondered "What is Jazz?", this short, hilarious video from 1957 explains everything you might ever need to know. And dig, it was made by the "Gleemonex Chemical Corp"; one has to wonder what sort of "chemicals" Gleemonex made!
George Whitty on Overcoming Stage Fright
Fri, 07/01/2016 - 4:23pm
One topic that seems to come up fairly often in my messages and video exchanges here at ArtistWorks is our good old friend STAGE FRIGHT. It's a bit of a theme in the video exchanges, particularly, so I'm going to take a few minutes and discuss my experience with it and how I got rid of it.
One fine summer day in 1992, I had my first rehearsal with the Brecker Brothers. I'd helped them produce "Return Of The Brecker Brothers" earlier that year, and to my incredible delight, they asked me to join the band for the tour. But to my knowledge neither Mike nor Randy had heard me take a solo; I think they'd heard I could blow, but hadn't heard me much in person other than doodling around on the recording sessions. So, on this day, we set about rehearsing "Above and Below", a fast Latin burner. And we played the head, Mike Stern took an extended smoking solo, Randy took an extended smoking solo, Mike Brecker took a VERY extended smoking solo, and then everybody looked at me.
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