In The Style Of Jonathan Stout, Vol. 1-3

Forgive me for the long absence from updating this blog, as I’ve mostly moved over to using things like Instagram (@campusfive) and Facebook (facebook.com/jonathan.stout) for my updates. But it’s long overdue to mention here… I was honored to be featured by the DC-Music School (run by the great Django and Gypsy Jazz player and researcher, Denis Chang) to among the players whose playing they’ve turned into a course (or three, in this case).

The DC Music School approach is to have players improvise over tunes, and then meticulously transcribe them using Soundslice (an amazing tool in it’s own right) as the backend architecture. This allows the students to examine and learn the vocabulary note-for-note, with a system that syncs the music and notation together, and allows the student to slow down or loop at will.

Denis and I talked for over an hour after we filmed the course materials, and here’s that wide-ranging interview.

Denis divided the material into three volumes, with most of the acoustic Reuss-style chord-melody stuff in Volume three, and Charlie Christian style-electric single-note stuff in Vols. 1 and 2. Check them out here: