Jazz Camp

[bassopotumus]

Hey I'm looking for a good jazz camp that has good bass instructors. Does anyone have a preference for a jazz camp? I'm planning to go this summer, so if anyone has some suggestions, that would be great!

[Marcus Johnson]

There are some great ones at the Indianhead Arts Center, which is in the tiny rural Northern Wisconsin town of Shell Lake. Practice your intonation to the sound of gigantic mosquitoes! I went there a few times in high school, 100,000 years ago. And just look at me now....

[Sam Sherry]

I don't know if you're young enough (!) to meet the age requirements, Richard Davis' bass camp is THIS COMING WEEKEND:

http://www.globaldialog.com/~rdavis/foundation/bass.htm

[Monte]

Pacman and I can both speak to Lynn Seaton's jazz bass camp at UNT. Well worth attending at any level.

Monte

[Mike Goodbar]

Originally Posted by Sam Sherry

I don't know if you're young enough (!) to meet the age requirements, Richard Davis' bass camp is THIS COMING WEEKEND:

http://www.globaldialog.com/~rdavis/foundation/bass.htm

I'm driving up for Day 2 on Saturday. The age limit for participants is 18, but the coordinators said they welcome "observers." I'm hoping to pick up some teaching techniques and hopefully some playing techniques too (and maybe play a couple of basses!).

[Ed Fuqua]

POT O'BASIE MESS - are you ready to travel the globe? Are you looking for something close to home? Where is home, you don't have anything posted in your profile (it would be helpful)?

Talk to DURRL (Chris Fitzgerald) bout the Aebersold camps, he does a lot of work for them. Bud Shank does a camp up in Port Townsend WA. There is a camp in Vermont that used to be run by Attilla Zoller.

If I'm not mistaken both DOWNBEAT and JAZZ TIMES both publish an issue each spring with jazz camps listed by region, maybe you wnat to check a back issue for last year's?

[Chris Fitzgerald]

Last I heard, Rufus was going to be with us for both weeks of the camp this year - always a treat!