Exploring Music: The Big Band Experience - Part II

Exploring Music: The Big Band Experience – Part II
* Three Tuesdays, October 17, 24 & 31
  1-2:15pm (PT), 2-3:15pm (MT), 3-4:15pm (CT), 4-5:15pm (ET)
  Zoom

Join composer/pianist Clint Edwards for an interesting and insightful jazzy-journey through the Big Band era. Explore the great bands, legendary band leaders, and virtuosic musicians, with stories, musical analysis, and plentiful performance clips from the era.

In Part-II, continue our exploration of the Big Band genre, with a focus on minority contributors (women and Latin Big Band masters), closing out with one of the greatest bands of the era – The Tommy Dorsey Band with Frank Sinatra and the Pied Pipers.

Taking Part-I is NOT a prerequisite in order to take Part II of this series.

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Clint Edwards is a composer, arranger, and pianist. His compositions and arrangements have been performed around the world, including NYC’s Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully Hall, WQXR, Joe’s Pub, The Green Room 42, and The Eugene O’Neill Theater Conference, as well as in concert venues throughout England, Holland, Australia, Germany, South Korea, and Poland.

He is the winner of the 2019 Broadway World Award for “Best Independent Album Release.”

As a pianist, he regularly gives more than 350 performances a year in the NYC metropolitan area.