Sunday, March 18, 2012

BAM

Nicolas Payton being interviewed by Willard Jenkins.

Nicholas Payton is right on and makes sense. I would consider myself a BAM professor and Jazz specialist in academia. Great interview. Willard, as usual, does a great job. I would have to say in essence the term  BAM is academic. Could jazz be a subset of BAM? I have a little school show I do called "The Creators Of Jazz".  We cover: Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and John Coltrane. I have a power point going that has lots of pictures of the artists.  So they get the picture.  Teaching jazz is not really a classroom endeavor but more of a hang playing tunes. His thoughts on that are great. It's so true. I teach like I learned. We play tunes and lots of blues. I tell them if they don't listen to the music they'll never play it.