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Brian Shaw discusses Kenny Wheeler's compositional techniques and history and how that might have inspired writing techniques and his sound.
John Korsrud discusses how he uses the compositional technique hocketing in a jazz context as well as Kenny Wheeler's last…
John La Barbera distills down techniques, processes, and gives in depth analysis on the art of arranging.
Managed and curated by trombonist and composer JC Sanford, the ISJAC Artist Blog is a collection of writings by some of the most visionary minds in the jazz composition and arranging community. Featuring articles by composers from all walks of the industry, the ISJAC Artist Blog is updated monthly with both new and archived pieces.
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The Archive
Dave Rivello: My Time with a Master (Jan 2020)
Danny Jonokuchi: Collaboration and Mycelium
JC Sanford: Electronic Effects as Orchestration (by a novice)
Andy Milne: The Culture of Building Community Through Composition
Jim McNeely: Pausing at 70
Yuhan Su: Reveal the Second Moon
John Yao: Points in Time
Elio Villafranca: Tres Aguas – A Retrospective
Zhengtao Pan: Scenery In My Story
Brian Shaw: “I’LL LEAVE THAT TO YOU, MR. DETECTIVE” – SOME THOUGHTS ON KENNY WHEELER’S COMPOSITIONAL PROCESS
Rachel Eckroth: Speaking in Tongues
Jon Irabagon: A Server Farm's Worth of Compositional Devices
Omar Thomas: SIXTEEN YEARS IN THE MAKING: The Realization of “Griot Songs”
John Hollenbeck: Composing a Better World
Greg Ward: Growth Through Collaboration
Tracy Yang: What It Takes to Lead a Big Band and Record an Album
Bruno Råberg: Composing for a Ten-Piece Band - tone sets, counterpoint, motivic development, form and more
Sarah Jerrom: Writing For 4 Voices - The Magpie Suite
Ryan Truesdell: Creative growth through self-imposed challenges
Neal Kirkwood: Composing With The Mind’s Eye – Translating Image Into Sound
Vanessa Perica: My First Dive into the Symphonic World
An Interview with Vijay Iyer
Patrick Cornelius: Writing My Way Out of a Small-Group Rut by Thinking Big
Ed Palermo: Trial and Error. Arranging Music The Hard Way
Michael Cain: Will music composition exist in the era of the content creator?
Lauren Elizabeth Baba: Fundamental Freedoms – To Be Free to Create Without Fear
Angel Bat Dawid: The Tyrannical Perpetual Perversion of Blk Music
An Interview with Danilo Pérez
Patricia Brennan: MAGIC SQUARE – Composition by numbers
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