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Workshop: Giant Steps, Step by Step at the Jazzschool

  • California Jazz Conservatory (map)

In 1959, John Coltrane turned the jazz world on its ear with his album “Giant Steps,” featuring stunning new chord progressions that took bebop harmony to the next level. Through a combination of theory and playing, this in-person workshop aims to take the fear out of learning this daunting tune by using a variety of ways to internalize these changes and get them off the page and into students’ ears and fingers, from guide tone lines to pentatonic scales and beyond. Students of all instruments as well as improvising vocalists welcome. (Basic knowledge of jazz harmony required.)