Welcome to Interplay Jazz

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Interplay Jazz provides a unique holistic approach to learning how to improvise. With typically one mentor/master teacher for every three or four students, and teachers providing instruction on a wide variety of instruments (piano, bass, drums, guitar, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, strings, voice), students receive personalized attention and guidance. Each student has many opportunities throughout the week to play with other students and mentors in rehearsal, jam sessions and public performances. Daily yoga and tai chi classes are fully integrated with jazz improvisation and theory, ear training, repertoire, jazz history, master classes on your instrument and much more. Delicious natural foods (most of it grown locally) provide the necessary fuel for feeding creativity.  Participants are encouraged to look at habit patterns that could be impeding creative flow and journaling is strongly encouraged and guided by faculty and staff to document each individual's creative process.

 

This is NOT your basic Band Camp! Discover, Explore and Express your true Creative Self at Interplay.

The next Interplay Workshop will be a one-day workshop in Hartland, Vermont with saxophonist/pianist Fred Haas and saxophonist Michael Zsoldos. This is one of a series of Winterplay Jazz Workshops that focuses on small group improvisational techniques. We play a lot of music together and learn essential jazz vocabulary and repertoire. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for more information.

 

The Interplay Jazz Experience will be held this summer in Woodstock, Vermont starting on June 27 and running through July 2. New to Interplay's holistic approach this year will be the Interplay Gospel Choir (directed by Dartmouth College Gospel Choir director Walter Cunningham) and several Little Big Bands , each of which will consist of a rhythm section and four or five horns playing great arrangements. These evening tracks will be in addition to our daily work in Master Classes, Combo Rehearsals, Jam Sessions, and classes in ear training, composition, arranging, jazz theory, improvisation, repertoire and yoga (now taught by a marvelous jazz vocalist, Evita Cobo).


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A Senior Lecturer at Dartmouth College, Fred Haas teaches Jazz Improvisation, Jazz History, Music Theory, Saxophone, Jazz Piano and directs several jazz combos. Fred also teaches saxophone at the University of Vermont and he is the Founder and Director of Interplay Jazz Camp, a week-long holistic jazz workshop that integrates meditation, yoga and natural foods to enhance creativity and support a relaxed approach to practicing and performing.

Fred also runs his own CD company, JazzToons, that has produced several small group jazz CDs. He is an active performer, playing both piano and saxophone with groups in New England and beyond.

Jazz Historian Peter Bodge wrote, “Fred communicates...he consistently displays not merely a knowledge of his craft, but a sincere dedication to sharing those ideas and ideals with others. As a musician, he is an intelligent and fiery improviser, a harmonic wizard: one who plays music, not just the saxophone (or piano), and all with warmth, wit, and sincerity.”