Jazz Small Ensembles: Leake, Seager, and Tipton Ensembles

This is an in-person event with a private stream available to the NEC community: https://necmusic.edu/streaming-eben-jordan

THREE SETS: 7 PM, 8 PM, & 9 PM

7:00pm- Leake Ensemble

This ensemble will develop a student’s own inner sense of rhythm and give them a chance to learn the elegant art of frame drumming. The ensemble materials are derived from a variety of world music, North African, Middle Eastern, South Indian and Brazilian. The students will learn many forms of rhythmic puzzles and grooves that will be sung in time and performed on the drum. The drums will be provided in the classroom but students will be urged to get their own.

Jerry Leake, coach
Itay Goldstein, bass
Anouk Chemla, voice
Yuchi Chen, guitar
Koki Renwick, trumpet
Yangyi Mao, guitar
Nadav Brenner, guitar
Susie McCarthy, voice
Kai Lance, guitar

8:00pm- Seager Ensemble

This ensemble focuses on building cohesive group playing using both jazz standards and free improvisations.  We focus on specific aspects of music such as rhythm, motive, space and form.  In practicing and applying each of these elements — separately and together — we experience how they work to help us build trust in our abilities, and confidence in our own personal ways of expressing ourselves. 

Bert Seager, coach
Koki Renwick, trumpet
Alexander D’Astolfo, piano
Yu Chi Chen, guitar
William Stark, bass
Jialin Guo, drums

9:00pm- Tipton Non-Majors Jazz Ensemble

Mark Tipton, coach
Chihiro Asano, voice
Matthias Kaufman, accordion
Alvaro Lopez, guitar
Isabel Atkinson, bass
Michael Rogers, drums
Agne Giedraityte, voice