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Graduate Scholarship and Stipend for International Students:
The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program at the University of Louisville School of Music is currently seeking qualified applicants for our International Jazz Quartet. Read details: Word Document  , Adobe pdf Document 
Jazz Week has been our flagship event for fourteen years. The true essence of Jazz Week has been to offer visiting students from throughout the region and our jazz studies students the opportunity to interact with jazz masters and leading jazz educators in concerts, clinics, workshops and adjudication. It has been an exciting event which we hope to make even more vital by condensing to a four day festival called Jazz Fest.
Joining Jazz Fest will an added concert schedule. The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program will begin presenting leading jazz artists throughout the year and a Latin Festival in the spring. One could not ask for a more significant figure to begin our expanded program than Dave Brubeck and his fabulous quartet. Others on the Jazz Fest and more…. concert series will include: Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Jazz Explosion, Antonio Hart and Jazz Peru. Jazz Fest artists include: Byron Stripling, Dick Oatts, Open World Jazz Ensemble (Russia), Garage Sale (Argentina), John Goldsby, Jack Wilkins, Corey Christiansen and Michael Parkinson. Join us for these exciting concerts.
Nov 10 - Dave Brubeck Quartet, Courier-Journal Article,
Leo Article
Jan 26 - Antonio Hart (Saxophone Weekend)
Feb 7 - The
Gabriel Alegria Afro-Peruvian Sextet sponsored by Jazz Peru Internacional, Photos
Feb 27 - March 1- Jazz Fest
Jazz Fest 2008 Entry Letter
Word Document
Adobe pdf Document
April 4 - Sammy Figueroa and his Latin Explosion
February & March 2008 - Brazilian Jazz Music Event featuring The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Music Program - Congresso Internetional de Polirritmia e Jazz Brazilian Music
Camp - Confira as datas do evento http://www.souzalima.com.br/eventos/2008/eventos2008_002.html
Festival Poster ; Anuncio Revista Atualizado II Poster
Jazz Masters Concert - The Dave Brubeck Quartet
November 10, 2007
8PM Louisville Memorial Auditorium
Call 502-852-6907 for tickets
Memorial Auditorium Seating Chart
The School of Music presents the Dave Brubeck Quartet in concert 8 pm, Saturday, Nov. 10, at Memorial Auditorium. Tickets range from $20 to $75. A block of $15 seats is available for UofL students or they may get a $10 discount for any other seating area. UofL faculty, staff and students (with ID) may buy up to two tickets each at a $10/ticket discount. Call 852-6907 for credit card purchases (a handling charge applies). Stop by room 115, School of Music, 8 am-4 pm, to pay by credit card, cash or check.
Dave Brubeck, piano - Bio
Robert Militello, saxophone, flute - Bio
Michael Moore, bass - Bio
Randy Jones, drums - Bio
Mr. Brubeck's appearance is sponsored by: President James Ramsey, Provost Shirley Willihnganz & the Seelbach Hilton
Accomodations by: Seelbach Hilton
Courier-Journal Article
Leo Article
Announcing
New degree program in Jazz Performance: Emphasis in Jazz Performance - BM ( 4 year) 133 hours
Announcing new faculty for 2006-2007 : Ansyn Banks, Jazz Trumpet - Bio
Recent Events
La Plata Festival 2007, UofL Students in La Plata, Photos of La Plata Festival
Jamey Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops - http://www.summerjazzworkshops.com
*Musings of a Jazz Camp Junkie, Article by William Sinclair
Jazz Week 2007
Open World, February 2007 - Official Schedule & Daily Itinerary
Saxophone Weekend 2007
Russia Tour - Perm, Moscow & St. Petersburg - Summer 2006
International Association of Schools of Jazz 2006 Annual Meeting - Held June 25 - 30
*World Class Jazz, U of L plays host to prestigious global gathering next week - Courier-Journal, by Jeffrey Lee Puckett, Sunday, June 18, 2006
Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program:
Serious About America’s Music - JAZZ!
The University of Louisville School of Music is pleased to be the home of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program. Established in 1985, the program was named for Mr. Aebersold in 2000. Mr. Aebersold, a recently retired faculty member, is one of the leading proponents of jazz education and largest publisher of jazz education materials in the world. Additionally, the School of Music has hosted the Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops since 1977. The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program is recognized throughout the nation and world for its commitment to quality and innovative programs.
The latest addition to our jazz degrees is a Bachelor of Music with an Emphasis in Jazz Performance. This degree will offer students a complete undergraduate jazz experience. Other jazz degrees offered at the School of Music include a Master’s degree in Performance with a Concentration in Jazz and a Bachelor of Arts degree with an Emphasis in Jazz Studies. A Bachelor of Arts degree with an Emphasis in Music Industry is also offered. Scholarship assistance is available for graduate and undergraduate students wishing to focus their study in jazz.
The program features extended residencies by leading jazz artists as well as a continuation of the exciting annual Jazz Week every February which features a week long celebration of jazz with concerts, workshops, and clinics. In its fourteenth year, Jazz Week is an event that regularly features some of the biggest names in the jazz world including Dave Brubeck Quartet, Elvin Jones Jazz Machine, McCoy Tyner Trio, Wynton Marsalis, Billy Taylor, Michael Brecker, Clark Terry, and Marian McPartland just to name a few of the recent guest artists. Jazz Week 2006 featured Jon Hendricks, Dave Liebman and Bill Watrous. Other artists who have appeared at the School of Music include Ahmad Jamal, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra, Roy Haynes Quartet, Slide Hampton, James Moody, Marcus Printup, Jerry Bergonzi, Bud Shank, Terell Stafford, Roland Vazquez Ensemble, Joe La Barbera, Eric Alexander, Kenny Werner Trio, Jeff Hamilton Trio, and Peter Erskine Trio.
The Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program is one of only a few prestigious institutions in the United States selected to participate in an international music exchange sponsored by the Open World Leadership Center at the Library of Congress; support for the Open World cultural program is also provided through partnership and funding from the National Endowment for the Arts. The Jazz Studies Program played host to three hand-selected groups of jazz musicians and jazz educators from throughout Russia. The goal was to afford these fine musicians and educators the opportunity to experience life in America with a special focus on jazz. In addition to home stays with area families, visiting local places of interest and witnessing our political process in action, their experience included taking lessons; participating in master classes; playing alongside our musicians in rehearsals, performance, jam and recording sessions; listening to jazz in a variety of venues and much more. In addition to UofL Jazz faculty, our guests worked with the Heath Brothers (Percy, Jimmy and Tootie), Jon Hendricks, David Baker, Jamey Aebersold, and pianist Harry Pickens to mention but a few.
Student and faculty groups, from a quintet to more than forty, have toured and performed in numerous foreign countries. These countries include Brazil, England, Estonia, Finland, Poland, Russia, and Wales. In addition to our continued interaction with Russian musicians, there is an exchange program currently in place with the Akademia Muzyczna in Katowice, Poland and ones being developed with institutions in Brazil and Australia.
The prestigious faculty includes Professor John LaBarbera, an alumnus of the Buddy Rich Band and a national figure among active jazz composers and arrangers, recently receiving a Grammy nomination for his recording On The Wild Side; saxophonist and Fulbright Senior Specialist Mike Tracy, who is Director of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program, Professor of Music and the author of Jazz Piano Voicings for the Non-Pianist and co-author of Pocket Changes and Pocket Changes II; Associate Professor Jerry Tolson (saxophonist and vocalist), who performs regionally with three of his own professional groups including a big band and a contemporary jazz ensemble and is an active composer/arranger as well; and pianist/bassist Chris Fitzgerald, an extraordinary performer, composer and educator. Trumpeter Anysn Banks will be joining our faculty in Fall 2006 as an Assistant Professor. Mr. Banks is a gifted instrumentalist and educator, currently completing his DMA in Trumpet Pedagogy at Indiana University. Additional faculty include Tyrone Wheeler, lecturer of jazz bass who is known for his work with numerous local and regional groups and can be heard on numerous Jamey Aebersold Play-Along CDs; pianist Jim Connerley, an outstanding performer and educator; Craig Wagner, a fantastic guitarist who is at home playing contemporary and traditional jazz styles; and drummer Jason Tiemann, an exceptional performer with extensive teaching experience. In addition, each of the faculty are active regionally, nationally and internationally as educators, adjudicators and performers in such recognized at workshops as the Skidmore Jazz Institute and the Aebersold Summer Jazz Workshops.
Other Pages of Interest
Jazz Weeks
Summer Jazz Workshops
Articles of Interest
- Argentinean Website Article - Cuando el jazz se enseña
, Michael Tracy fue uno de los invitados a este encuentro musical, November 13, 2006
- Russian Magazine Article by Mike Tracy
- World Class Jazz, U of L plays host to prestigious global gathering next week - Courier-Journal, by Jeffrey Lee Puckett, Sunday, June 18, 2006
- Take Five, Russian jazz musicians take Time Out to talk during U.S. visit By Kevin Rayburn - Photo
- A Year in Global Jazz by Michael Tracy,
Jazz Education Journal, April 2006
- Jazz Fills Clubs and Concert Halls, Louisville Cardinal Online, by Sharon Scott, February 28, 2006
- If it's Tuesday, it must be Louisville, UofL News Story by Kevin Rayburn
- John La Barbera, jazz whirlwind - Courier-Journal, Sunday, January 29, 2006
- Article on Central Queensland Conservatorium of Music; Paper Banner for The Daily Mercury; The Daily Mercury, Jazz on Hamilton article, October 26, 2005
- Musician on the Move - The Jazz Ambassador: UofL's Tracy takes music abroad
- Mike Tracy: Interview for Jazz.RU - Jazz Education Issue
- Louisville, Kentucky Open World Host Jams with Alumni in Yaroslavl
- Slide Hampton Brings the Trombone Back Into Spotlight
 LEO, February 2005
- Music Professor, John LaBarbera, has Shot at Grammy
- Louisville Cardinal Online - UofL Professor Nominated for Grammy Award
- John LaBarbera Online
- Eastern Europe and All That Jazz
- Spotlight On .... Bruno Pegoraro by Jennifer Lauletta. Louisville Jazz Society Newsletter, February 2005
International
Performances
Visiting Artists
Special Visitors
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION...
Michael A. Tracy, Director
Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program
University of Louisville - School of Music
Louisville, KY 40292
502 852 6032 office
502 852 0520 fax
Email: Click here!
Internet: http://jazz.louisville.edu/
Jazz Faculty
Shown in the photo from left to right: Jason Tiemann, John La Barbera, Jim Connerley, Craig Wagner, Chris Fitzgerald, Ansyn Banks, Tyrone Wheeler, Mike Tracy, Jerry Tolson
Ansyn Banks - Jazz Trumpet
Jim Connerley - Jazz Piano
Chris Fitzgerald - Jazz Piano/Bass, Jazz Theory
John La Barbera -Jazz Trumpet, Jazz Arranging and Composition
Jason Tiemann - Jazz Drum Set
Jerry Tolson - Jazz Vocal, Jazz History and Styles
Mike Tracy - Jazz Saxophone, Jazz Repertoire, Director
Craig Wagner - Jazz Guitar
Tyrone Wheeler - Jazz Bass
Graduates of the Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program
Degree & Course Offerings
Undergraduate - Bachelor of Arts (Emphasis in Jazz Studies) - (4 year) 130 Hours
Graduate - Master of Music with a Concentration in Jazz Performance - 36 Hours
Entrance Requirements
Click here for details of the Undergraduate and Masters entrance requirements.
Graduate Jazz Recital Requirements
Click here for the graduate jazz recital requirements in Composition/Arranging and Instrumental Performance.
Jazz Course Offerings
Click here to view the School of Music Course Listing and the courses offered specifically in Jazz Studies.
Ensembles
Click here to view all the jazz ensembles available to students studying jazz at the School of Music.
Jazz in the Schools
The University of Louisville School of Music's Jamey Aebersold Jazz Studies Program is pleased to announce a new educational offering Jazz in the Schools.
The Jazz in the Schools program introduces students to the art of improvisation through the performance of America's own original music, jazz. Currently a pilot program with a target of ten middle school performances occurring during the fall of 2002, our goal is to establish a program which will be available to every school in the Louisville area, reaching students of all ages and backgrounds.
Click here for more information about the School of Music's Jazz in the Schools Program.
Endowments
Join us in our quest to establish an endowed Visiting Jazz Artist Chair. This one-of-a-kind endowment will bring leading jazz artists to U of L for extended residencies enabling our students to study and perform alongside master jazz artists for long periods of time.
Click here to learn how you can help us to make a difference, one that will have a lasting impact on all of our students.
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