A Grant from the Community Foundation, The Tennessee Arts Commission, the Musicians Performance Trust, and the Hendersonville Arts Council has provided an opportunity for Middle School and High School Students in Middle Tennessee to experience The Jerry Tachoir Group Live.
This is probably the first and only time these students might get an opportunity to be exposed to contemporary jazz improvisation and by a live working Jazz Group.
The Jerry Tachoir Group is playing some of their original material by award winning composer/pianist, Marlene Tachoir and then Jerry talks a bit about what is going on in the mind of the improvising artist. How this vocabulary of jazz is performed and how the other instruments in the band react to this improvisation.
This is so important to expose students to jazz, since most of them think they don't like jazz and that jazz is something that died in 1940 and was music of our grandfathers.
It turns out, they like it - No, they really dig it. The Jerry Tachoir Group is doing their small part to help keep jazz alive.
This is probably the first and only time these students might get an opportunity to be exposed to contemporary jazz improvisation and by a live working Jazz Group.
The Jerry Tachoir Group is playing some of their original material by award winning composer/pianist, Marlene Tachoir and then Jerry talks a bit about what is going on in the mind of the improvising artist. How this vocabulary of jazz is performed and how the other instruments in the band react to this improvisation.
This is so important to expose students to jazz, since most of them think they don't like jazz and that jazz is something that died in 1940 and was music of our grandfathers.
It turns out, they like it - No, they really dig it. The Jerry Tachoir Group is doing their small part to help keep jazz alive.
For more information contact All About Jazz.