conference of the directors of the swiss jazz schools (dksj)

CONFERENCE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE SWISS JAZZ SCHOOLS (DKSJ)
MASTERCLASS IN TICINO
BOBBY WATSON - VICTOR LEWIS
5 - 6 DECEMBER 2008
SCUOLA DI MUSICA MODERNA LUGANO
PROGRAM
Friday 5 december 2008
14.30 - 17.30
Scuola di musica moderna - Aula Magna
Intervals, the Language of improvisation
The importance of mastering intervals using them to create, build and manipulate musical ideas during improvisation
Dir: Bobby Watson. English language
21.00 - 23.30
Caffè Olimpia - Piazza Riforma
Jam Session teachers (it’s possible to have dinner)
Saturday 6 december 2008
10.30 - 13.00 Scuola di musica moderna - Aula Magna
20.45
Concerto Auditorio Radio (open to the public)
B. Watson – V. Lewis Quartet
“The masculine and feminine side of drumming”
Dir: Victor Lewis english language
Admission fee: Fr 50.Registration deadline: 9th of November
CONFERENCE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE SWISS JAZZ SCHOOLS (DKSJ)
MASTERCLASS IN TICINO
BOBBY WATSON - VICTOR LEWIS
5 - 6 DECEMBER 2008
SCUOLA DI MUSICA MODERNA LUGANO
BOBBY WATSON
jazz alto saxophonist,composer,producer,educator
Watson grew up in Kansas City,Kansas. He was trained formally at the University of Miami along
with fellow students Pat Metheny (also from the Kansas City area), Jaco Pastorius. The school
has a distinguished and well-respected jazz program. After graduating in 1975, he moved to New
York and proceeded to earn his "doctorate" – on the bandstand - as musical director of Art Blackey’s Jazz Messengers.
The group, created in 1955 by the late drummer, who died in 1990, showcased a rotating cast
who eventually became consistent members of a "who's who" of modern jazz. The Jazz Messengers, sometimes referred to as the "University of Blakey," served as the ultimate "postgraduate
school" for ambitious young players. He performed with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers from 1977
to 1981, eventually becoming the musical director for the group.He also founded the 29 street
Saxophone Quartet with alto saxophonist Ed Jackson, tenor saxophonist Rich Rothenberg, and
baritone saxophonist Jim Hartog.
After completing his tenure as a Jazz Messenger, the gifted Watson became a much-sought after
musician, working along the way with a potpourri of notable musicians, peers, elder statesmen
and colleagues including, but not limited to: drummers Max Roach and Luis Hayes, fellow saxophonists Gorge Coleman and Branford Marsalis, celebrated multi-instrumentalist Sam Rivers and
trumpeter Wynton Marsalis who joined the Jazz Messengers at least in part at the suggestion of
Watson.
Later, in association with bassist Curtis Landy and drummer Victor Lewis Watson launched the
first edition of Horizon, an acoustic quintet modeled in many ways after the Jazz Messengers but
one with its own distinct slightly more modern twist. Horizon is now considered one of the preeminent small groups of the mid-1980s to mid-1990s. The group recorded several titles for the
Blue Note and Columbia record labels.
In 2000, he was approached to return to his native midwestern surroundings on the Kansas-Missouri border. Watson accepted the challenge and subsequently that same year he was selected
as the first William D. and Mary Grant/Missouri, Distinguished Professorship in Jazz Studies. The
past six years he has served as the director of jazz studies at the University of Missouri-Kansas
Ciy Conservatory of Music although he still manages to balance live engagements around the
world with his teaching responsibilities. Watson's ensembles at UMKC have garnered several
awards and national recognition.
CONFERENCE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE SWISS JAZZ SCHOOLS (DKSJ)
MASTERCLASS IN TICINO
BOBBY WATSON - VICTOR LEWIS
5 - 6 DECEMBER 2008
SCUOLA DI MUSICA MODERNA LUGANO
VICTOR LEWIS
jazz drummer,composer,educator
Internationally acclaimed drummer and composer Victor Lewis was born on May 20, 1950 in
Omaha, Nebraska.
Lewis began playing drums professionally on the local scene at the age of 15. Because few of
the older drummers in Omaha could read music, the young percussionist was called up for a
variety of commercial jobs, including jingles, the Bob Hope Show, even the circus. At first Victor's
style reflected his attraction to the big band drummers he had seen with his father and heard on
records, but after hearing a record of Miles Davis' Quintet with Tony Williams things changed.
He began exploring Williams' sound and the styles of other great small group drummers like Art
Blakey, Kenny Clarke, Max Roach and Philly Joe Jones. Soon afterwards he started his own small
group to play around town. His first job with a nationally known jazz musician was accompanying
Hank Crawford in Omaha.
On Victor's first gig in Manhattan, a night at Boomer's with bassist Buster Williams' group, he met
trumpeter Woody Shaw. Lewis joined the trumpeter's band and a few months later, he made his
recording debut on Shaw's classic, The Moontrane. The drummer also began making his mark
on the burgeoning fusion and pop jazz scenes, providing the beat on records by Joe Farrell, Earl
Klugh, Hubert Laws, Carla Bley and David Sanborn
In 1980, Victor left Shaw's group to join another tenor giant, Stan Getz, beginning an association
that would last up until the saxophonist's death in 1991. Lewis made many recordings with Getz
including videos of the group's performances at the Paul Masson Vineyards and the Robert Mondavi Vineyards. It was Getz who first recorded his composition, "I Wanted To Say."
By the end of the eighties, Lewis was one of jazz's busiest freelancers. He toured and recorded
with a wide array of the music's most respected leaders. The long list of artists including Kenny
Barron, Art Farmer, J.J. Johnson, Mike Stern, John Stubblefield, Grover Washington Jr., The Manhattan Jazz Quintet, Bobby Hutcherson and Bobby Watson attest to his talent and versatility.
When he's home in New York, Victor can most often be found in the city's recording studios. In
addition to the many jazz dates he's recorded with people like Gary Bartz, Eddie Henderson, Johnny Griffin, Janis Siegel, Larry Willis, John Hicks and Abbey Lincoln, he has recorded a jazz method record with educator-saxophonist Fred Lipsius. An educated drummer, Lewis tries to pass
on his knowledge, giving private instruction to students, participating as a freelance instructor
with The New School University Jazz School-Mannes Music School Jazz Program in New York
City and appearing in drum clinics around the world as often as his schedule allows it. He has
participated in a symposium in Modern Drummer magazine and there have been several feature
articles about him in publications such as Downbeat, The Wire, Jazz Times as well as Modern
Drummer.
In 2003 Victor joined the faculty of Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ where he teaches
drummers and coaches jazz combos.
CONFERENCE OF THE DIRECTORS OF THE SWISS JAZZ SCHOOLS (DKSJ)
MASTERCLASS
1.
Scuola musica moderna Smum
Via Foce 1 - CH-6900 Lugano
Tel. 091 / 970 10 35
[email protected]
www.smum.ch
CONCERT
2.
Auditorio Radio Svizzera Italiana
via Canevascini - Besso
3.
Caffè Olimpia
Piazza della Riforma - Lugano
HOTEL RESERVATION
Category ** Fr. 90 – 100
Category *** Fr. 110 - 150
4.
Hotel Pestalozzi
9.
Piazza Indipendenza 9 – Lugano
091/921 46 46
[email protected]
5.
Hotel Rosa – Garni
10.
Via Landriani 4 - Lugano
091/922 92 86
Hotel Colorado
via C. Maraini 19 - Lugano
091/994 16 31
www.colorado.ch
Nassa Garni
via Nassa 60 - Lugano
091/910 70 60
6.
Hotel Ginevra – Garni
11.
via Ginevra 7 - Lugano
091/923 61 70
Hotel Zurigo garni
via Pestalozzi 13 - Lugano
091/923 43 43
7.
Hotel Selva
12.
via Tesserete 36 –Lugano
091 923 60 17
[email protected]
Hotel Walter au Lac
Piazza Rezzonico 7 - Lugano
091/ 922 74 25
[email protected]
8.
Hotel Atlantico
Category **** Fr. 170 -200
via Concordia 12
091/971 29 21
13. Lido Seegarten
www.atlantico.ch
viale castagnola 22
091/ 973 63 63
www.hotelllido-lugano.com
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