Piano-Jazz workshop with Joan Díaz [4 sesiones]
FIRST SESSION:
Thursday 29 October | 18:30-20:30 | Aula Omega-Morente
Aimed at piano students and ESEM or COS composition students.
Registration at the Secretariat of the School or ESEM.
The October 29, 2024will start the first of the four sessions of Piano-Jazz workshop imparted by Joan Diaz. The workshop, which will take place in the Aula Omega-Morente from 18:30 to 20:30, is aimed at student pianists and composition students from ESEM or COS. The following sessions will be held once a month, on Mondays or Tuesdays, with the exact dates yet to be confirmed.
This workshop offers a complete immersion in jazz piano, addressing key aspects such as sound, the use of tempo or posture. The participants will practice through transcriptions, improvisation exercises and comping techniques. In addition, different styles and resources of great pianists of the genre, from Evans to Jarrett, will be worked on, allowing students to acquire practical tools and expand their jazz repertoire in a creative way.
CONTENTS
Elements inherent in the piano studio
_ Sound. Reference pianists.
_ Weather Use of the metronome.
_ Posture. Physical sensations.
_ Exercises interpreted with musical intention.
Study routine
Transcripts:
_ For solos with left hand accompaniment.
_ From solo piano.
_ Of small fragments with melodic, harmonic or rhythmic interest.
_ First sung and then played.
Repertoire:
_ Melody
_ Harmony
_ A solo piano
_ Application of exercises
_ Design and interpretation of solos
Improvisation:
_ Exercises in 12 tones. Scales, arpeggios, patterns, approaches.
_ Use of interval and random progressions.
_ Extraction and study of small melodic cells of reference solos.
Harmony:
_ Closed and open voicings. Open and closed chords.
_ Chords by thirds, drop2, quartal chords, so what chords, special chords, superstructures.
_ Work on progressions. Cadences
Comp
_ General questions. Voicings, sound plan, rhythm, activity (density).
_ Auto-comp. Rhythmic patterns, voicings of 2, 3 or 4 notes.
_ Comping a singer. top score walk in black
_ Comping to a double bass. Piano record. Melody as a resource.
Role of the piano in small and large formations. From duo to big band.
solo piano
_ Stray piano
_ Bop Piano
_ Evans
_ Jarret
_ Essential resources: Intros, codas, harmonizations, reharmonizations, pedals.
Modern repertoire
Pianistic analysis and solutions of:
_ 3 Views of a Secret (Jaco Pastorius)
_ Current Proof (H. Hancock)
_ Humpty Dumpty (Chick Korea)
JOAN DIAZ
Joan Diaz (Barcelona, 1967) is a pianist and composer with a solid musical background acquired at the Barcelona Municipal Music Conservatory and the Taller de Músics. Throughout his career, he has collaborated with outstanding international musicians such as Randy Brecker, Gonzalo Rubalcaba, Perico Sambeat and Gary Willis, among others. He has also worked on film soundtracks, collaborating closely with the director Cesc Gay in films such as Krampack and In the city.
Díaz has been awarded on multiple occasions, including five awards from the Association of Jazz and Modern Music Musicians as best pianist and keyboardist. His album We Sing Bill Evans It was critically acclaimed, as was his first solo work Welfare/Peacefulpresented at the Barcelona International Jazz Festival.
He has led projects like We Sing Wayne Shorter and Evans universe with the Free Spirits Big Band, and in 2014 he founded the New Catalan Ensemble (NewCat), fusing jazz and traditional Catalan music. She is also a member of the ESMUC Jazz Project group of female composers, along with Lluís Vidal, Joan Monné, Francesc Capella and Joan Sanmartí.
In addition to his artistic career, Joan Díaz is a respected teacher, being a professor of piano, improvisation and composition at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and collaborator of the Taller de Músics.
