Remember when Lance read
about jazz at the WEA (Workers’ Educational Association) in a brochure that he
found on a bus? Well he wasn’t imagining
it, the WEA is putting on 2 jazz courses, starting on Thursday October 30,
and running weekly for 7 weeks. From
1-3pm there is a class called An Improvisation For Musicians. This
is a universal approach suitable for any style, blues, rock, classical as well
as jazz. You need some facility with
your instrument and a basic knowledge of chords, but you don’t need advanced
music theory.
This takes place at the Unitarian Church Ellison Place Newcastle
The other 7 week course
is the same day, same place, same price, but it is at the following time of
3-5pm. This is Jazz Appreciation, tracing
the development of jazz from its roots, and you don’t even need any previous
knowledge of music, or to be a musician.
Sounds good to me!
To enrol for both or
either course, see www.wea.org.uk or
telephone the WEA office on 0191 2126100.
I remember the WMA (Workers Music Association) courses at Wortley Hall, Sheffield, in the 60's. My brother taught the Concert Band and there were other sections for BrassBand, Orchestra, Folk, Choirs anj 2 Jazz courses. The "beginners" was run by Owen Bryce and the "improves" by Eddie Harvey. Since they fell out when both played in George Webb's Dixielaners, and Eddie was excommunicated for modernist tendencies, it was quite amusing to watch the interplay.
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