On July 16th, 2014 there was a live radio show in Leiden, Scheltema from Radio Sleutelstad Fm. There were a lot of bands performing an evening of music. I had the fortune to play with two amazing peeps: Frans Heemskerk on piano and Tom Beek on Saxophone.
Btw, Frans will have his cd release on November 13th… so please check www.fransheemskerk.nl !! 🙂
With my private instructor Joanne Brackeen I’ve been working on phrasing this semester. And, how do instrumentalists and vocalists speak their melodies. In earlier blogs I’ve mentioned that I like to approach music as a language, and if you can phrase your melodies as if you where speaking them, they will sound natural.
Anyway, this week we worked on one of my compositions and she suggested me to ask some saxophone players to play my melody, and then to transcribe it. A day later, with this assignment in mind I ran into Joe Lovano, who was working with us in the Global Jazz classes. I told him about my assignment and he told me that we could meet the next day. Then he played my composition, my melodies, and he even improvised on it! He sounded amazing 🙂 …
Now I have to sit down and transcribe it, difficult but wow. This was one of the most amazing moments of the semester.