 Kent Jordan, Clinician
This year Kent Jordan brings his educational skills to GCEH as this year's clinician. Kent hosts the "Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong Summer Jazz Camp" in New Orleans http://louisarmstrongjazzcamp.com and will be hosting the GCEH Youth Jazz Workshop for 2011. Traditionally this workshop has been held on the Friday morning of the GCEH festival event but, this year it will a three-day jazz camp. Starting at 9am continuing until 2pm, Wednesday, August 3rd through Friday, August 5, 2011.
Hailing from New Orleans, a city renowned for its musical luminaries, flutist Kent Jordan shimmers as one of the brightest lights in modern jazz. Whether with his own band or alongside other artists, Jordan has dazzled audiences from Rio to Tokyo and firmly established himself as the foremost master of the jazz flute.
More and more audiences had been introduced to Jordan and his seemingly magic flute (and piccolo, too) through his stints on tour and in the studio with the Improvisational Arts Quintet, Wynton and Ellis Marsalis and "Tonight Show" guitarist Kevin Eubanks. But perhaps no collaboration has had stronger impact than his experience with the great jazz drummer Elvin Jones. Jordan toured the world and recorded with Jones for two years. "My experience with Elvin," Jordan says, "was the pinnacle for me as a jazz artist … I found myself playing with a legend who helped forge the last great jazz music with the John Coltrane Quartet."
Workshop dates August 3, 4 and 5 2011
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Hosea London, Clinician
Hosea London, leader and manager of the Excelsior Band, is a graduate Mississippi Valley State University with a B.S. in Music Education. He has taught music in the Memphis School System, private lessons in Mobile and Huntsville, AL and grant programs in Pensacola, FL.
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