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SESSION III • June 24-30
JUNIOR-SENIOR HIGH
JAZZ BANDS/COMBOS CAMP
Cost $445

John CooperCamp Director - Dr. John Cooper, Director of Jazz Studies, Western Illinois University
Past staff has included Mark Roller, John Mose, David Hoffman, John Vana, Kevin Nichols, and Michael Stryker

Students will be placed into combos based on their audition and instrumentation. All students will get ensemble experience, jazz history, and improvisation classes with highly specialized jazz faculty including the WIU Jazz Faculty. Combo participants will study performance techniques related to small group jazz performance including standard repertoire, improvisation, interpretation and style, the roles of the combo instruments, jazz forms and har-monic practices, and listening. Opportunities for Direcor participation in clinics and a Faculty Big Band.

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