Day Three

Day 3 of the South Delta Jazz Workshop is done and dusted.
The third day of the workshiop is always special beacuse you see students that have become completely immersed and comfortable with music.   Even when you give them a break for lunch they want to keep playing!  Music ceases to become a separate activity - music becomes an integral part of being like breathing. What an incredible thing to see.

We had a great noon concert featuring our our bass facvulty memebr, Rob Kohler.  We played some standards, one of Rob's tunes, and one by his son, Sam.  The concert also featured a "3-bass hit" with Rob and our two bass TAs, Wynston and Spencer, playing "Blues in the Closet".  Following the day's teaching we headed out to the hosue of Bob Miller, one of our adult students, for a nice did before the Petra's Cafe jam.  Bob, a tenor player, has been participating in our workshop since the very beginning and is a lovely person.  For the past few years he has been inviting us to his beautiful house beside the beach for a moment of physical and mental refreshment in the middle of our 12-hour day.  The jam at Petra's Cafe was very successful as always, with almost all of our students in attendance.  There weren't as many players from the community this year but that is ok; we have so many students this year it was a challenge to find opportunities for all of them to play a couple of tunes.

Today is our last full day of teaching as Saturday is a short rehearsal and final concert.  Tonight we will have a faculty septet concert at All Saints Anglican Church in ladner.  I have written some arrangements of my tunes for the show and I'm looking forward to hearing how they work out.  Music is at 7:30, tickets are $10 at the door.  Hope to see you there!