Swing University with Phil Schaap and guests
Irene Diamond Education Center (IDEC)
6:30pm–8:30pm *(EXCEPT WHERE NOTED)

Hear your favorite music anew as Phil Schaap and friends share their insights, expertise and tall tales. Learn about jazz from the musicians who make it and the scholars who study it during Swing University, which offers 4 & 8-week evening adult education courses for every knowledge level.

Questions? Call 212-258-9823 or email swingu@jalc.org

SPRING 2009 TERM
LESTER YOUNG
with Phil Schaap
Mondays, 3/23; 3/30; 4/6; and 4/13
4-class session: $125
Tenor saxophonist Lester Young was the primary soloist in the original Count Basie Orchestra and Billie Holiday's favorite accompanist. Phil Schaap, a former neighbor of Young’s and a family friend, will teach you the essentials of "Prez"-idential history.

BEBOP!
with Vincent Gardner
Tuesdays, 3/24; 3/31; 4/7; 4/14; 4/21; 4/28; 5/5; and 5/12
8-class session: $200
Virtuosity, fuller harmonies and a new rhythmic sense established this sound as a new type of jazz. Join JLCO trombonist Vincent Gardner for a close look at how Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie paved the way for other masters of this innovative sound.

JAZZ 101
with Phil Schaap
Tuesdays, 3/24; 3/31; 4/7; 4/14; 4/21; 4/28; 5/5; and 5/12
8-class session: $200 (Introductory)
Discover the A to Z of jazz. Meet the Crescent City pioneers who taught musicians everywhere how to swing and the Big Band Era heartthrobs who brought jazz into prime time. Relive the bebop revolution and follow its descendents – cool, hard bop, modal and free jazz – into the Modern Era.

RAGTIME & JAZZ
with Terry Waldo
Wednesdays, 3/25; 4/1; 4/15; 4/22; 4/29; 5/6; 5/13; and 5/20
8-class session: $200
Pianist-scholar Terry Waldo takes us back to the 19th century and Jazz in its pre-dawn. Our own Wynton Marsalis cites Terry as the guy to go to for the study of Ragtime.

JAZZ 301
with Phil Schaap
Wednesdays, 3/25; 4/1; 4/15; 4/22; 4/29; 5/6; and 5/20*
7-class session: $250
You may know King Oliver, but what about Freddie Keppard? Can you distinguish John Coltrane from Sonny Rollins by ear? These intensive three-hour classes will help you answer these questions as we chart the same Jazz 101 and 201 trajectory but in greater depth. An optional final will be given two weeks after the last class, outstanding students will receive a certificate signed by Wynton Marsalis and Phil Schaap.

*This is a three-hour class and a six week course. The 7th class is the optional final.