Please join us next week for an assembly featuring Jazz bassist, Buster Williams.
Buster is this year's featured Artist in Residence at AFS. He will be
working throughout the campus with students in their music ensembles on
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday of next week. Buster has played,
recorded, and collaborated with jazz musicians including Chet Baker,
Chick Corea, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Nancy Wilson, Elvin Jones,
Miles Davis, and Count Basie, to name a few. We will gather in the Muller Auditorium at 10:25 a.m. on Wednesday, January 30 for a thirty minute assembly presentation. Please read more about Buster's life and work here: http://WWW.BUSTERWILLIAMS.COM
Over
the past few weeks, our lower school students have been introduced to
the double bass, they have had the opportunity to pluck the strings
(pizzicato). We have watched a few short clips of Buster's performances
and have started to talk about how important it is for musicians in
Jazz to be able to improvise, or create their own music.
Students
in third and fourth grade had the opportunity to create 8 beat melodies
in C pentatonic on our barred instruments to further extend their
beginning foundation of the concept of improvisation. We are all very
excited for Buster to be coming to our community and sharing his
talents. We hope to see you at Wednesday's assembly!
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