Recordings
Jazz and the Art of Creative Listening is a comprehesive guide to jazz listening, featuring Laura Pierce and Michael Kolodny with world-renowned jazz artists Jimmy Cobb, James Williams and Harvie S. This double CD comes with a full color 32 page guidebook. A listener can spend an hour, or many hours, learning in an atmosphere of relaxed, enjoyable discovery. The first CD in the set, also available separately under the title Inner Light, is a regular listening CD of 12 jazz tunes. The companion disc is a workshop on listening which transforms several tunes from Inner Light into entertaining, interactive adventures. Through the workshop and the guidebook, Jazz and the Art of Creative Listening provides all of the essential elements of jazz. Beyond these elements, the guide offers helpful approaches to the art of creative listening. In this way, every aspect of the listener's art is fully explored.
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Inner Light includes the following tunes: Summertime,Bye Bye Blackbird, One Note Samba, Body and Soul, You'd be so Nice to Come Home To, It's Your Move, Now's the Time, What is this Thing Called Love/Hot House, How About You/All About You, My Melancholy Baby, All the Things You Are, and the gospel medley He's Got the Whole World/This Little Light. (click on the highlighted tunes to hear an excerpt in RealPlayer Basic.) Jazz and the Art
of Creative Listening includes the following learning activities:
I Love Jazz, My Melancholy Baby goes Out to the Ballgame,
Now's the Time to Scat and Count the Blues, Feelings, Conversations,
and other fun, insightful pieces. To try an excerpt of I Love Jazz, Feelings,
Conversations or Now's the Time, go to Interactive
Insights. Jazz and the Art of Creative Listening was conceived, written, produced and performed by vocalist Laura Pierce and her husband, saxophonist Michael Kolodny. The featured rhythm section is co-producer Harvie S(aka Swartz), on bass, Jimmy Cobb on drums, and James Williams on the piano. These world renowned jazz masters, hand-picked for their artistry, extensive experience and superb commitment to the art and to jazz education, give the recording its warm, buoyant sound. For more about these artists, please see Jazz Insight Artist bios. |
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| Jazz and the Art of Creative Listening is the culmination of fifteen years of practical experience in the field of jazz appreciation, including thousands of hours creating, experimenting, rehearsing and refining the approach taken by Jazz Insight. As with Jazz Insight's educational programs, Jazz and the Art of Creative Listening is designed to inspire a deeper interest in jazz, and to provide skills for more satisfying listening. The guide covers the process of improvisation, the feeling of swing, each instrument's character and role, interactions among the members of the band, the nature of listening, the spirit and feeling in the art of jazz, and ways jazz and listening skills can enrich one's life. The guide isn't another jazz history. It is a pioneering project at the root of jazz appreciation - listening - created to involve people with the music itself. |
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These CDs will be available soon. To receive an announcement for the CD release, please contact us at 1-888-909-JAZZ or info@jazzinsight.com |