🚀 ALBERT SANZ: The Importance of Singing as an Improviser LIVE Masterclass (3-Day FREE Trial!) DETAILS: JazzHeaven.com/live
Structuring a musical discourse from singing (and talking!)
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✨Albert covered:
👉🏼 How to develop our ability to play what we sing by mastering intervals
(Ear-training exercises & voice-instrument connection)
👉🏼 How speaking relates to musical rhythm & structure in music
👉🏼 Converting music into text & vice versa
👉🏼 Hearing the chord changes internally & singing bass lines
👉🏼 Drawing harmonies from the voice as in Choro music from Brazil
👉🏼 Hearing “outside” harmonies & displaced resolutions
🗣️ WRITES ALBERT:
"Improvisation in music is conversation.
The rules we follow in music are the same rules we use when speaking with others, so to be understood and heard, we have to create rhythm as we speak, form clear sentences and try to tell stories, create tension, release tension, ask questions, express emotions, and listen, while at the same time interact and be human and participate in the most beautiful aspects of jazz music: interaction & spontaneity.
To do so in music, we allow our spontaneous creativity to flow without thinking, and we need to possess the ability to play as if we were talking.
That’s the ideal connection I want to make here:
How can we play the same way we talk and sing?
My goal is to show you how fun and endlessly creative it can be if we approach improvisation and composition from this point of view!"
Details: JazzHeaven.com/live
📃 About ALBERT SANZ:
A jazz pianist, composer, and singer/songwriter, Albert is recognized as one of the most original and talented musicians of his generation.
Albert was born in Valencia, Spain, into a very musical family. His mother is the great singer, songwriter, and actress Mamen García, and his father is Josep Sanz, an orchestra conductor, classical pianist, and composer.
After going through the Valencia Conservatory to receive classical piano classes with Paco Baró, Albert attended the music workshop in Barcelona and received a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston, from where he graduated Cum Laude in 2002.
Moving to NYC, Albert worked with musicians like Kurt Rosenwinkel, Larry Grenadier, Jeff Ballard, Joe Lovano, Mark Turner, Chris Cheek and many others.
Returning to Spain, Albert settled in Barcelona for 3 years, collaborating with musicians such as Perico Sambeat, Masa Kamaguchi, Raynald Colom, David Xirgu, Carme Canela, Jorge Rossy, Guillermo Klein, Javier Vercher, Javier Colina, Silvia Pére, as well as international musicians on tour in Spain and Europe like Kurt Rosenwinkel & Peter Bernstein.
His own recordings include 2 trio recordings with Al Foster & Javier Colina, plus "Los Guys" with Chris Cheek, Larry Grenadier and Jeff Ballard as well as "Live at Bird's Eye" with Larry Grenadier & Jorge Rossy.
Recently, Albert was commissioned to write and arrange a symphony ("Ce qualcuno") which was performed with the Valencia Symphony Orchestra at Teatro Principal de València in 2023.
An experienced educator, Albert taught at the MUSIKENE higher conservatory in the Basque Country, worked as a professor at the Higher Conservatory of Valencia and is currently on the faculty of Berklee Valencia.
Now Albert is giving all he's got to a more meaningful musical world by also becoming a lyricist and composer with his latest project “La espuma del mar."
Details: JazzHeaven.com/live