Alan Simon
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
Update on Juilliard jazz
Correction: Benny Goodman gave a master class at Juilliard (in the 40's) and pianist John Mehegan, who authored many books on jazz piano theory also taught a course there. His approach was from an analytical classical viewpoint using roman numerals, and his books had transcriptions. There may have been others, but I never heard of a jazz big band with Juilliard's name on it until the one led by Paul Jeffrey.
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Alan, as far as I know Jeffrey was never affiliated with Juilliard.
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Oh--I hadn't seen your other post yet. I wonder what the deal was with the band you played in. If he was at Teachers College, and not on Juilliard faculty, maybe Juilliard required him to call it Juilliard Jazz Ensemble in order to give him rehearsal space there?
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