SUMMER 2024 INTENSIVES Guitar Mastery Workshop: A Summer Intensive Program, is led by TWO of the world’s leading jazz guitar voices. Kenny Wessel & Bruce Arnold
Join us for an unforgettable experience at our Guitar Mastery Summer Intensive Workshop, where you will have the opportunity to learn from two world-renowned guitar masters: Kenny Wessel and Nate Radley.
Kenny Wessel, a graduate of Berklee College of Music, has performed and recorded with a wide range of musicians, including Ornette Coleman and Donald Fagen. His teaching style emphasizes creative exploration and expression through the guitar, and he has been a beloved faculty member at the New York Jazz Workshop for many years.
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Throughout his impressive body of work over the past 20 years, Bruce Arnold has deftly pulled together a myriad of musical influences ranging from Messiaen, Schoenberg and Webern on the contemporary classical side to Bill Frisell, Pat Metheny and John McLaughlin on the modern jazz guitar side. Furthermore, he has laid out his ideas in clear, concise fashion in the 52 instructional books that he’s written on ear training, theory and technique.
Together, Kenny and Bruce will guide you through a 4-day intensive program that is designed to help you fine-tune your improvisational skills, expand your knowledge of harmony, and improve your technique. You’ll also have the opportunity to learn from special guest, Marc Mommaas, a saxophonist and educator who has taught at prestigious institutions around the world.
Whether you’re a beginner or an experienced guitarist, this workshop is the perfect opportunity to take your skills to the next level and learn from some of the best in the business. Don’t miss out on this incredible experience!
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The Guitar Summer Intensive is better suited to intermediate and advanced musicians with a minimum of a few years on their instrument. More details can be discussed during registration.
Kenny Wessel, a versatile, sensitive and soulful guitarist and composer, has performed in 27 countries. He toured with revolutionary jazz artist Ornette Coleman for over 12 years as a member of Prime Time, Ornette’s groundbreaking ensemble. Kenny can be heard on Coleman’s CD, Tone Dialing. Performing Ornette’s “Skies of America, ” Wessel has appeared with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic and London’s Philharmonia Orchestra. A vital and personal voice on the jazz guitar, he has also worked with Donald Fagen (featured guitar soloist on Fagen’s Morph the Cat), David Liebman, John Abercrombie, Karl Berger, Debbie Harry, Gloria Lynne, Adam Rudolph and others from the jazz, pop and world music spectrum. A dedicated jazz educator, Wessel currently teaches at LIU, CCNY, and Western Connecticut State University, in addition to leading ensembles at the New York Jazz Workshop. Kenny Wessel´s Bio
Guitarist Bruce Arnold’s passionate pursuit of new ideas and applications for his beloved six-string instrument has taken him from the minimalist landscapes of Sioux Falls, South Dakota to the bustling city of Boston, where he studied and later taught at the Berklee College of Music, to the hallowed halls of Princeton University, where he taught for 30 years, retiring in 2019. Along the way, the music educator and author has managed to document his innovative ideas for guitar on a series of potent recordings that explore the notion of applying highly complex 12-tone theoretical constructs and serial methods to modern American improvised styles. As he wrote in the liner notes to his ambitious 1996 debut recording, Blue Eleven: “All of the work reflects my goal to achieve a balance between emotional expression and formal exploration.”
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GUEST: Marc Mommaas – Marc made his debut as a leader in his 1999 recording Global Motion Trio with Nikolaj Hess (piano) and John Hebert (bass). In 2001 the acclaimed drummer Tony Moreno joined the group which became Global Motion. In 2003 after an extensive tour in Europe including a 5 day hit at the Pompoen in Amsterdam, the band returned to NYC and recorded Global Motion, released by Sunnyside Records. This release earned critical acclaim in Downbeat, Jazztimes, Jazzimprov, All About Jazz and numerous online platforms. This record was followed by another well received Sunnyside release titled Balance (2006), a long anticipated duo recording with pianist and longtime friend Nikolaj Hess. In 2010 he jumped into a new project born out of his extensive collaboration with drummer Tony Moreno. It became “Landmarc” the guitar project, a band with three guitars, sax, drums and no bass. The touring band included two guitarists, Vic Juris and Nate Radley. In 2013 Marc finished his solo Saxophone project “Irreversible Momentum” which started in 2009, this will be released in the fall of 2013 and in the fall Marc will record as co-leader a Ballads record with Nikolaj Hess. Marc Mommaas´ Bio
For more info regarding our summer program, housing, travel, and more, visit our Summer Workshop General Information page. For a more in-depth experience, inquire about adding a private lesson with someone from the NYJW Faculty during your visit. Learn more about how you can combine Summer Intensives to create a customized Summer Jazz Packages. Feel free to reach out via email at [email protected] with any additional questions.The JazzArts Summer Music Camp is an exciting one-week comprehensive music training program for students, grades 7-12, devoted to America’s original art form: JAZZ. Students will be immersed in an intensive jazz curriculum and have the opportunity to interact and play with other motivated young musicians from across the Charlotte region.
The JazzArts Summer Music Camp curriculum includes: small combo performance, jazz improvisation, faculty concerts (each afternoon), jazz history and listening, jazz theory (basic to advanced), composition, master class instruction on bass, drums, guitar, piano, saxophone (all woodwinds), trombone and trumpet, and student jam sessions. All instruments are welcome, including vocals.
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Auditions are held for placement at the appropriate skill level. Students at all levels, with at least one year experience in a school band or private lessons, are welcome! Four skill levels are offered. Click here for audition details.
$375 (includes $20 registration fee). There is a 20 percent discount for siblings registering for Summer Music Camp. Please email info@ or call 704.334.3900 for more details.
Please email info@ to register if you are applying for financial aid or seeking a payment plan, as you will not be able to complete the registration online.
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Tuition is due at the time of registration. Full payment may be made by check, money order or credit card. A payment plan is available if prearranged. A full refund will be granted up to one week before the first program day – minus the $20.00 registration fee.
If you’ve got a question we didn’t answer on the website, call us at 704-334-3900 or contact Education Director Patrick Brown directly at pbrown@.
Thank you to the Infusion Fund, South Arts, Ford Foundation, Alice L. Walton Foundation, North Carolina Arts Council, and Knight Foundation for providing the generous support that allows this program to remain accessible and affordable.
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Special thank you to UNC Charlotte, Bank of America, Akers Foundation, and The Ella Fitzgerald Foundation for their belief in students having the opportunity to learn jazz.Left: Drummer Allison Miller will teach at Jazz Camp West this summer. Right: Summer Jazz at DePaul University offers its first camp at the famed jazz institution this summer.
For anyone (make that all of us) who are just plain done with this pandemic, here’s a prediction: Jazz camps will go forward, in full force this summer. Even as we slog through the dredges of the omicron variant and uncertainty, this prediction is based not on a guess, but on the plans, preparations and the sheer determination of the dozens upon dozens of jazz camps surveyed on the following pages for ’s annual jazz (and blues) camp guide.
A few camps have decided to stay closed or go virtual this summer, but the vast majority are ready to offer campers young and old the opportunity to gather, commune and have a crazy good time immersed in music.
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Reached out to several camps to ask what lessons learned last summer will serve the camps and campers well this year, and what they are looking forward to this summer.
As the Stanford Jazz Workshop prepares for its 50th anniversary season, Jim Nadel, the founder and artistic director of the event, said he’s never experienced anything like this in his time with the Workshop.
“We’ve had challenges, but nothing like this, ” he said. “The environment at Stanford is so protected and safe that it’s rare that anything causes any disturbance at all to our programs. We’ve never had anything that prevented or discouraged students from coming to SJW, prior to the advent of COVID.”
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Nadel said he was happy to report that the camp would be back live and in person this summer after being closed last summer.
“Last year, the campus was closed for our kind of program. Except for a handful of outdoor concerts, our jazz venues were dark. Stanford is very much on top of the latest testing and health safety protocols, and the campus is relatively isolated, so it’s somewhat easier to keep on top of this, ” he said.
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