Fred Live!

Interplay Jazz provides a unique holistic approach to learning how to improvise. With typically one mentor/master teacher for every four or five 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 teachers in rehearsal, jam sessions and public performances. Daily yoga and meditation classes are fully integrated with jazz improvisation and theory, ear training, repertoire, jazz history, master classes on your instrument and much more.

From June 29 through July 3 Woodstock, VT will be opening its doors and its ears to Interplay Jazz. Woodstock is a quaint historic village in the middle of scenic Vermont and has been called “the prettiest small town in America” and the “quintessential New England village." Local establishments will be hosting evening performances and jam sessions, and several beautiful Bed and Breakfasts and the Val Roc Motel will be home to students for the week.

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.”