Melissa Aldana
Melissa Aldana is a tenor saxophone player and composer. She was born in Santiago, Chili. In 2009, she graduated from the Berklee College of Music where she had studied, among others, with Joe Lovano. After her study, Melissa Aldana relocated to New York to study with George Coleman. In 2013, she won the Thelonious Monk International Saxophone Competition. Melissa Aldana was the youngest, first female and first South American person to win this competition. She brings out recording regularly, and performs world-wide.
Melissa Aldana performs as a soloist, and with her bands ‘Melissa Aldana & Crash Trio’ and ‘The Melissa Aldana Quartet’.
https://www.melissaaldana.net/
Kurt Ellenberger
Kurt Ellenberger is editor-in-chief of the IASJ Journal of Applied Jazz research. He is also editor of the online magazine ‘All about Jazz’. For this magazine, he has written several articles. One of the most recent articles is ‘Second Line for the Second Time: A curious Tale of a Rhythm reborn’. The article is filled with various links to YouTube films that show and explain the points he is making. Kurt Ellenberger presents the rise and fall of the second line, the various modes that were used, and presents an explanation of the cultural background against which it happened.
https://www.allaboutjazz.com/articles?in_artist=&in_artist_id=&in_album=second+line&in_label=&in_label_id=&in_author=&in_type=0&publicity_firm=0&year_published=&language=1&orderby=dt_pub
Josiah Boornazian
Josiah Boornazian is an award-winning saxophonist, composer, educator, electronic musician, and scholar of music. During the 'Ongoing Dialogues' at the 2023 IASJ Jazz Meeting, he presented an alternative to the standard way of thinking and teaching jazz history. During much of the 20th century, there was consensus among jazz musicians and scholars regarding the narratives of jazz history. However, jazz historiography has changed considerably in recent decades. Initially built upon the assumptions of classical musicological models, the discourses around jazz have become steadily more complex, factional, and often political. Sometimes, narratives presented as jazz history are heavily tinged with socio-political content that is not directly related to the musical sounds themselves. Josiah Boornazian offers a brief overview of some historiological models. He will discuss recent attempts to solve the problems surrounding the construction of jazz history narratives.
https://www.josiahboornazian.com/
Daniel Schenker
IT- specialist, trumpet player and theory teacher Daniel Schenker from Switzerland has developed the ear-training app called 'ET - Ear Trainer'. The app can be used to train active and passive listening. The app focuses on microphone input and includes active and passive hearing. An integrated voicing generator ensures that piano voicings common in jazz practice are used. It is mainly focused on jazz, pop and improvised music. The users themselves make the individual adjustments to the respective learning level in the clear basic settings. The app is used as the main tool for the ear-training classes at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHDK), where Daniel is on the faculty. In this presentation, Daniel Schenker introduces and demonstrates the Ear Training App.
https://www.eliaschenker.com/ET_App/#description
Daniel Jamieson
Daniel Jamieson is an award-winning composer, arranger, conductor, & saxophonist. He leads his own internationally acclaimed big band, ‘The Danjam Orchestra. Daniel's works have been performed by a who's who of the jazz & commercial music scenes. He holds a Bachelor of Music degree in Jazz Performance from the University of Toronto. He has a Master of Music degree in Jazz Composition from the Manhattan School of Music as well, where he studied with Dave Liebman and Jim McNeely.
Daniel Jamieson is the founder and artistic director of ‘Jazz Composers Present’, an online space where composers, musicians, and listeners come together. This online community offers livestreams, masterclasses, listening sessions, roundtables, group lessons, and artist Q&As. Each week, a free mini-lesson is uploaded featuring one of our guests. In his presentation, Daniel Jamieson talks about the ‘jazz composers present’ community and explains its many benefits.
https://www.jazzcomposerspresent.com/