Deconstructing Modal Jazz Piano Techniques: The Relation Between Debussy's Piano Works & the Innovations of Post-Bop Pianists
Presented
by
SERGIO PAMIES RODRIGUEZ
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A presentation from the
Jazz Education Research and Practice Journal,
a publication of the Jazz Education Network.
Join Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati’s College -Conservatory of Music (CCM) for a webinar that examines the relation between Claude Debussy’s harmonic and melodic techniques and those of post-bop jazz pianists through the analysis of selected piano pieces and transcriptions of important recordings that helped establish new aesthetics in jazz during the late fifties and early sixties. Similarities between Debussy’s modal techniques and hallmark traits of post-bop jazz harmony are discovered within the contributions that Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, and McCoy Tyner made to Miles Davis’s and John Coltrane’s small groups. The analysis presented in this article is intended to serve as a model on how jazz research can develop into pedagogical tools for jazz educators and performers aspiring to reach new levels of sophistication in their playing.
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ABOUT SERGIO PAMIES RODRIGUEZ
Sergio Pamies Rodríguez, DMA, is currently Assistant Professor of Music at the University of Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music (CCM). He teaches Jazz Piano, Jazz Combo, Advanced Jazz Improvisation, and Jazz Styles & Analysis. Prior to this appointment, he taught at the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA). Pamies has published four albums under his name and has performed at festivals in Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Colombia, Peru, China, Spain, and the United States. He has collaborated and performed with outstanding artists such as Dave Liebman, Christian Scott, John Clayton, Marshall Gilkes, Rubem Dantas, Antonio Serrano, Brad Leali, Quincy Davis, Craig Bailey, and Scott Belck, among others. Pamies has given master classes and presented his research at different universities in the United States, Spain, China, and Colombia.
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