{"id":65,"date":"2008-01-08T20:24:23","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T01:24:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/wp\/2008\/01\/jazz_edbeyondjazz_in_toronto\/"},"modified":"2011-04-28T16:35:05","modified_gmt":"2011-04-28T20:35:05","slug":"jazz_edbeyondjazz_in_toronto","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/jazzbeyondjazz\/2008\/01\/jazz_edbeyondjazz_in_toronto.html","title":{"rendered":"Jazz Ed-Beyond-Jazz? in Toronto"},"content":{"rendered":"

Education is one aspect of the jazz world in evident ascent; Down Beat<\/i><\/a> last spring listed some 180 North American schools offering degrees in the music born a century ago in taverns and brothels. The 35th annual International Association for Jazz Education conference<\/a>, in Toronto this weekend, suggests how far swinging blues have come.<\/p>\n


\nAt the conference, an expected five-to-seven thousand college and secondary school teachers, students, first rank professional musicians, jazz media (tv, radio, print & online) specialists, cd company reps, instrument manufacturers, concert\/fest producers, sheet music publishers and jazz-reverent entrepreneurs will attend clinics, workshops, panel discussions, a fundraising dinner, happy-hour receptions, schmoozes and oh, yes, performances in a city that no longer has a dedicated jazz club, but is rife with a hard-core improv scene and international populace.
\nSome expected highlights, musicwise: Canadian-born trumpeter Ingrid Jensen’s Nordic Connect band <\/a>with her saxophonist sister Christine; British tenor saxophonist Courtney Pine<\/a> on his own curated UK night; New York-based guitarist Joel Harrison’s Quintet<\/a>; French Canadian (Vancouver-resident) clarinetist Francois Houle<\/a>. Interesting academic presentations: guitarist-Berkelee College prof Garrison Fewell<\/a> on Sun Ra<\/a>; drummer Jimmy Cobb<\/a>, saxophonist Jimmy Heath<\/a> and bassist Paul West on their late colleague, pianist Wynton Kelly<\/a>; singer Catherine Dupuis<\/a> demonstrates her new Native American-jazz hybrid. Unusual live interviews: drummer Roy Haynes<\/a> submits to author Dan Morgenstern<\/a>‘s questions; vocalese stars Jon Hendricks<\/a> and Kurt Elling<\/a> converse on their legacy and future; Neil Tesser<\/a> (Listen Here), Darcy James Argue<\/a> (Secret Society), Jason Crane<\/a>(The Jazz Session), Carl Wilson<\/a> (Zoilus\/The Globe and Mail<\/i>), and David Ryshpan<\/a> (Settled in Shipping) consider the jazz blog.
\nI’m co-leading with the estimable Stuart Broomer<\/a> (Toronto Jazz Life, former editor Coda, too-long-retired out-guitarist) a three-day course “Who Asked You Anyway?” in writing a disappearing staple of arts journalism, the overnight review (Jazz Journalists Association veterans mentor jazz journalists wannabes through a strict editorial process) and also moderating, for the third year, “Jazz in the Digital Age,” a probe into the online world jazz journalists are adapting to, with panelists James Hale<\/a> and guitarist-blogger Tim Postgate<\/a> , among others. The JJA is having a party at the Novotel Hotel lounge Friday — just before the U.S. National Endowment of the Arts<\/a> formally presents our most recently named Jazz Masters to the assembly. Composers of ASCAP commissioned compositions<\/a> and the Smithsonian Jazz Orchestra<\/a> will also be heard.
\nExpected results? Well, what comes out of most industry-wide conferences? Are there deals to be made, treaties to sign, campaigns to launch? Maybe just rumors to pass. I’ll be reporting: watch this space.
\nSchedule: Jazz Journalists Association (and me) at IAJE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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