WORKSHOP ENSEMBLE

BIG BAND

Collective work in an orchestra is absolutely essential. It develops other senses than those explored in instrument lessons.

Students find themselves projected into an extremely professional role, but where competition is left aside in favor of the search for good collective energy, both on a human and musical level.

The improvising jazz musician learns to serve the music that is offered to him, and to take pleasure in making the written parts sound with passion and humility.

Stéphane Guillaume

STANDARD JAZZ REPERTOIRE

This weekly course is based on learning, memorizing and soaking up a jazz repertoire.

This common language for jazz musicians will be like a foundation and a passport that allows you to meet musicians (jam, concert, project, etc.) so that everyone continues to develop and discover themselves through this music…

The choice of pieces allows you to cover the different periods, styles of jazz, composers and thus offers an open and varied perspective. For each and collectively, avenues of work to explore will emerge, learning methods that will serve as a guide well beyond the course itself, aiming more than ever at the autonomy of the musician.

More specifically, through the practice of a jazz repertoire, the following areas will be covered:

“Playing together”, collective playing and listening, interaction, the soloist speaking, telling a story, memorizing a piece, the melody as a basis for improvisation, the work of accompanying a soloist, vocalization, swing, placement, articulation, work on tempi -metrics- different styles, transposition, harmonic work on triads + arpeggios + scales, the role of each, exchanging roles, bass-drums work, knowing how to generate riffs, improvising intro and coda, arranging and structuring in the moment, work on the text of standards, singing everything and transferring it to the instrument, oral tradition and written tradition, the link with the tradition and history of jazz, etc.

Manu Domergue
Stéphane Guillaume
Jean Michel Charbonnel
Frédéric Loiseau

“ESTHÉTIQUES” REPERTOIRE

These weekly workshops aim to introduce students to the many styles of music (traditional world music often peripheral to jazz) whose foundations and specificities they need to know.

The speakers are recruited from among the best specialists in each discipline and can thus clearly meet the expectations of the students.

The study of style is treated in the broad sense, with the help of possible audio-visual documents:

Origin of the music,
Historical-social context,
Evolution of the style until today,
Its influences on other music and particularly in Jazz.
Pieces brought by the speaker are studied and played by the students.

Rythm’n blues
Benoit Sourisse
Flamenco
Louis Winsberg
Edouard Coquard
African music
Alain Debiossat
Indian music
Prabhu Edouard
Alain Tournier
Brazilian music
Natalino Netto
Latin music
Orlando Poleo
Gerardo Di Giusto
Fusion music
Marc Berthoumieux
Olivier Louvel
Traditional music
Olivier Hutman
Electro music
Philippe Balatier
Maloya
Olivier Ker Ourio
The voice of the Musician
Pierrick Hardy

COMPOSITION WORKSHOP

Benoit Sourisse
Olivier Hutman
Louis Winsberg
Thomas Enhco
Chris Jennings
Tony Paeleman
Pierre Perchaud
Philippe Maniez

POLYPHONIC ENSEMBLE

The purpose of this workshop is to help all instrumentalists acquire the means to improvise on a harmonic grid, by “sticking” to this grid and using specifically Jazz vocabulary.

Manu Domergue