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Listening Session with John Clayton & Chuck Owen
On Sunday, July 26th at 1:00pm Eastern we kicked off the 2027 ISJAC Jazz Composers Summit season with a Listening Session featuring President John Clayton and Founding President Chuck Owen,…
2027 Call for Scores and Papers
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2027 Jazz Composers Summit
Latest Artist Blog
Long-form interviews and craft essays from working composers and arrangers.
Patricia Brennan: MAGIC SQUARE – Composition by numbers
Patricia Brennan discusses her work "Magic Square" and her approach to composition by numbers.
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Frank Carlberg: Some Harmonic Strategies In (Jazz) Composition
Frank Carlberg discusses techniques he uses to open up harmonic possibilities for new works with a particular focus on triads, tetrachods, and other harmonic…
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David Caffey: The Jazz Soli: The Arranger’s Solo
David Caffey frames some techniques he uses in soli writing along with giving examples and explaining his decision making process and the origin for…
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