Once again, the Nevada County Arts Council will hold its annual jazz camp. This is the second summer that leading jazz musicians from Northern California will teach and share their love of the jazz tradition with students. The Summer Jazz Camp will introduce middle school, high school and adult participants to the study of improvisation. For those who have a knowledge of jazz basics, they will have an opportunity to develop further. All instruments and vocalists are welcome. The cost for this 4 day jazz camp is $225.00, which includes a $75.00 registration fee.

Presented at the camp: • improvisation • musical cooperation • intonation • listening • jazz theory • melody and rhythm • playing without tension • classic jazz videos • composition

Classes will be held at the Nevada Union High School, Grass Valley from Wednesday, July 16 - Saturday July 19.

DAILY SCHEDULE:
9 AM - Faculty performance
10 AM - students will break up into sectionals: brass, woodwind, vocal, percussion, piano.
12 noon - Complimentary Lunch
1 PM - combos (rhythm sections plus instrumentalists and vocalists)
3 PM - Optional: classic jazz videos, private Alexander Technique lessons by appt.

Faculty and student concerts July 19 at 8 PM, Don Baggett Theatre, Nevada Union High School, Grass Valley

To register print a copy of this FORM and mail to the address shown at the top of the form
-OR-
Click HERE to submit your registration online.
You must register by no later than June 20.

Housing
Some housing is available for out of town students
Lunch
Lunch is included in the fee

Auditions
1. Please send audition tape if you are new to the camp
2. If you prefer, you can audition in person in Grass Valley. Please call Bill Douglass, Music Director (530) 273-5489.
No audition tape is needed if:
- you attended last year's jazz camp
- Bill Douglass is familiar with your playing

Send tapes to:
The Nevada County Arts Council PO Box 307 Grass Valley, CA 95945 (530) 271-5955

Alexander Technique
Alexander Technique is a method musicians have used for 100 years to:
• play without tension
• sit in a balanced way
• breathe fully and naturally
• reduce performance anxiety
• eliminate neck and back pain
• prevent repetitive strain injuries
For more information, see Nora Nausbaum's web site at www.ATSierra.com

Artistic Director

Bill Douglass is both a bassist and bamboo flutist, and has been playing on the jazz scene in the San Francisco Bay Area since 1965. He is on the faculty of The Jazzschool in Berkeley. He has been recording and performing with pianist Marian McPartland for more than 15 years, and has also been playing with singer Paula West for many years as well. Over the years he has has the great pleasure to perform with Bobby McFerrin, Mose Allison, Jon Hendricks, Mark Isham, Shweta Jhavari, Tom Waits, Terry Riley, Ian Dogole, Sheldon Brown, Paul McCandless and many more. His flute work can be heard on such films as "The Black Stallion", "Never Cry Wolf", and "1000 Pieces of Gold".

Workshop Faculty

Saxophonist and clarinetist, Dave Tidball, was born and raised in Wales, and became active in the London jazz scene in the 1970's, including recording two albums and touring with British jazz fusion pioneers Turning Point. He has performed in a wide variety of settings, notably the trio Threedom, with bassist Bill Douglass and drummer Robert Kaufman, the sextet Triceratops, and singer Paula West's quintet, recording CD's with each. Also featured soloist on the albums of Vivian Sayles, Tony Adamo, Benny Watson and Peter Zak. He teaches instrumental music for the Oakland Unified School District, directing band programs in three elementary schools.
Phone---510-536-4778

Guitarist Brad Buethe has been active in both the New York and San Francisco jazz scenes. While living in NY he toured with organist Jack McDuff and was a member of Jaki Byard's Apollo Stompers. His own band featured Joe Lavano on sax, and Mike Clark on drums, and released a CD of his original compositions on Owl/Timeline Records entitled "Side Step." Currently living in in San Francisco, Brad works the local club and festival circuit as well as touring Europe. As an educator he takes part in the San Francisco public school's Adventures in Music Program, sponsored by the San Francisco Symphony, and is a faculty member of the Young Musicians Program at the University of California at Berkeley.
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Albert Bent is a native of California and had his first formal schooling in music at Sacramento State College in 1959, studying trombone, bass and piano. He has been active for over twenty years as a performing and recording artist in a now burgeoning Bay Area scene. He has worked with such notable artists as Billy Cobham, Dizzy Gillespie, Pete Escovedo and James Moody to name just a few. Mr. Bent performs as bassist with the Latin jazz group, Soul Sauce, and trombonist with Bobby Short when he makes his appearances at Yoshi's in Oakland.
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Jazz pianist Ken French has worked over the last eighteen years as an ensemble leader, teacher, soloist, composer, arranger, and producer in Northern California. With a childhood background in classical piano studies, Mr. French was introduced to jazz performance and arranging at Roosevelt High School's nationally acclaimed jazz program in Seattle, Washington. Mr. French teaches piano, music theory and composition privately in San Francisco, as well as performing and teaching clinics and workshops across the western U.S. and Japan.
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Nora Nausbaum is a teacher of the Alexander Technique and a professional flutist. She's worked with musicians for 15 years, helping instrumentalists and vocalists progress with less effort. The Alexander Technique is a 100-year-old method for changing habits that contract the spine and joints. Often, stiffness and pain get in the way of achieving a good tone, technique, and enjoyment. Through group workshops during the week, Nora will introduce some new ways of:
• sitting in a balanced way
• holding and playing your instrument with ease
• understanding your breathing mechanism
• singing without strain
• reducing performance anxiety
• improving your tone through releasing tension
Individual lessons will also be available through appointment. You can read more about the Alexander Technique at www.ATSierra.com

As singer Jon Hendricks said about Jimmy: "Jimmy Robinson is one of the greatest drummers in the world. He has such class, finesse, such marvelous time. Everything he does is choice, tasty, grovvy and altogether suberb"! Jimmy has performed with some of the greatest names in the jazz tradition, and all over the world. Here are some of the people he has played with over the years. Ben Webster, Johnny Griffin, Buddy DeFranco, Chet Baker, Donald Bryd, Sonny Stitt, Bobby Hutcherson, Milt Jackson, James Moody, Harold Land, Mary Stallings, Woody Shaw Eric Dolphy and many more. He is listed in a French Jazz history book for his work in Paris in he 60's, and was listed as a Bay Area Jazz Giant in 1999. He is a commited teacher, and is someone who can really pass on the tradition with authority, and with humor. As he says about his life in music. "The challenge continues as I constantly refine and redefine my playing by working with musicians whom I respect and admire."
Phone---916-363-5463

For nearly 25 years, multipercussionist Ian Dogole has articulated his vision of Global Fusion Music as a bandleader, composer, recording artist, producer and educator, blending the forms and instruments of Jazz with those of the non-Western world. Ian has released four records --- Along the Route, Dangerous Ground, Ionospheres and Night Harvest. He has also recorded and performed with artists such as Hamza El Din, Shafqat Ali Khan, Richie Cole and Ancient Future, to name a few. Ian received a Jazz Performance Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts in 1991 and over the last 14 years, he has presented educational programs to more than 20,000 students with bassist/flutist Bill Douglass, and as part of Young Audiences of the Bay Area and the San Francisco Symphony's Adventures in Music program.
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Stephanie Bruce came to San Francisco in 1976 from Seattle where she began her musical life as a singer/songwriter in the local coffeehouses, and as a member of the cast of "Hair". The Bay Area provided many influences that led to her current involvement in the jazz scene, including her association with Bill Douglass. She has travelled to Europe and the Far East numerous times as a singer/pianist, performed in most of the Bay Area's finest venues, and has recorded two CDs of her own compositions and arrangements, "The Postcard" and "April in Dogtown". She has been teaching for over fifteen years and is currently on the faculty of the Jazzschool in Berkeley. " In my classes I try to offer information about vocabulary, practical skills, stylistic options, and the cause and effect nature of disciplined practice. Most importantly, I encourage the students to ask themselves what their intention is with each song they choose and they way they choose to present it. Each student has a unique next step in the development of a creative voice that transcends the imitation of a favorite artist. My role as teacher is to listen carefully for what that next step might be, and then offer suggestions that will move the student in the direction of discovery."
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