Jazz & Contemporary Music The legacy of jazz is boundaryless innovation. Longy’s Jazz and Contemporary Music (JCM) program provides an open environment in which students experiment and create to find their artistic voice and gain the experience and versatility necessary for success in an everchanging professional world. Engaging in improvisation, composition, and performance practices, untethered to any one discipline or genre, students will build off the foundations of jazz and explore beyond—to modern contemporary, global folk traditions, bluegrass, Rock, Hip Hop, as well as other popular idioms—to define the music of the now and the future. Course Highlights
Your Faculty
Sound and Style: Rulebreakers Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Jimi Hendrix, and J Dilla challenged the status quo. Take an in-depth look at how they changed the way their instruments were played, invented novel improvisational and compositional languages, and forever altered the course of modern music.
Eric Hofbauer, chair, guitar
River of Blues: Flowing from the Margins to the Mainstream From West Africa to the Mississippi Delta, the Blues has long been the foundation of Black musical culture. Follow the artists who developed this style and influenced American mainstream music forever.
Peter Cassino, piano, improvisation, ensembles
>> C onsider adding a Graduate Performance Diploma in JCM to your MM and take the music world by storm with your versatility.
Sara Bielanski, voice Leo Blanco, piano, composition, ensembles Dave Bryant*, ensembles
John Lockwood, upright/electric bass, ensembles Nando Michelin*, ensembles Randall Pingrey, trombone Noah Preminger, saxophone Ben Schwendener, composition
Peter Evans, composition
Neal Smith, drums
Ana Guigui, voice
Sylvie Zakarian, percussion
Charlie Kohlhase*, ensembles
Nikola Tomić, trumpet
*No private studio
Degrees & Diplomas Graduate Performance Diploma Master of Music Degree
