BOB MOVER JAZZ IMPROVISATION CLASSES

Accepting Students All Levels, Singers welcome

Bob Mover has been a noted Jazz educator for over thirty years. He has taught Jazz workshops, master classes and private study to instrumentalists and vocalists in the US, Canada, Europe, Brazil and Israel. With musical and verbal eloquence, Mr. Mover demonstrates the artistic use of concepts and principles enriched by his own deep knowledge and personal experience of Jazz.

The workshops provide students of all levels, from novice to professional, with inspiring, practical and useful practice and performance techniques, such as:
• helping the student feel the music `viscerally` by tapping and singing jazz rhythms, phrases, solos and heads
• finding the 'pocket' and 'deep pocket' of the time
• understanding of phrasing and musical 'prosody'
• articulation, and placement of eighth-note lines
• learning tunes systematically using ones ears, logic and feeling
• using `voice leading` in a linear context
• chord and scale substitution and re-harmonization
• understanding and use of elements of improvisation (scales, arpeggios, neighbor notes, upper structures, passing tones)

Mr. Mover has held adjunct professor positions at the following institutions:

BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC (Boston) 1980-1981

CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY (Montreal) 1983-1986

YORK UNIVERSITY (Toronto) 1991-1995

NEW JERSEY CITY UNIVERSITY (Jersey City) 1999-2001

For more information and prices please contact me at 917 593 6199 or email to bobmover@bobmover.com