Jazz Improv TV Program Guide

Program Guide
	About JITV Learn more about JITV and the channels being featured this month from Jazz Improv Magazine's editor Eric Nemeyer.
	Concert Hall In our Concert Hall you'll find an array of performances by some of the best jazz talent on the planet. From Mimi Fox to Duke Robillard, these folks and their amazing abilities keep audiences screaming for more, more, more!
	Larry Carlton's Master Class 335 Blues New Master Class Course from Larry Carlton! 335 BLUES imparts Carlton’s philosophical, technical and musical approach in a genre rich with expression and improvisation - the blues. 335 BLUES raises the bar on blues instruction with its innovative approach, articulate presentation and enough tasty moves to last a lifetime. "If you love electric blues guitar, then 335 BLUES may be a dream come true for you, " says Jude Gold of Guitar Player Magazine.
	Jazz Anatomy Jazz Anatomy decodes the structure of jazz guitar revealing a remarkably clear approach for comping, melodic development and improvisation. Your professor of Jazz Anatomy is Mimi Fox - phenom player, brilliant educator and top recording artist. Just Jazz Guitar hails her playing as "jazz guitar at its best" and she chairs the guitar department at the Jazz School in Berkeley...Fox has all the chops.	>> Lesson Tab (PDF) Blues in Bb Comping - 1 Blues in Bb Comping - 2 Full description and audio samples of Jazz Anatomy
	Vamps, Jams & Improvisation Vamps, Jams and Improvisation illustrates dozens of approaches for developing solid melodic and rhythmic ideas for soloing or comping over one and two-chord vamps. You'll first learn how to think melodically and then how to best express those ideas, in a vamp or jam setting, with the other band members. Your vamp, jam and improvisation guide is the inimitable Frank Vignola. Frank is one of the most accomplished, multi-dimensional players walking the planet today. Monster player, composer and improviser, Frank’s latest project with master percussionist Joe Ascione, "The Frank and Joe Show" is one of the hottest and most original jam bands around. Frank’s pedigree is a mile long, but a quick Google will illustrate why there’s no one better qualified to shape your jamming skills.	>> Lesson Tab (PDF) Lesson 8 Solo Lesson 9 Solo Lesson 8 Rhythm Lesson 9 Rhythm Full description and audio samples of Vamps, Jams & Improvisation
	Jazz Master Robert Conti is one of the few bonafide jazz guitar masters walking the planet today and here you can watch some of Conti's extraordinary Jazz Master course. Fortunately for we mere mortal students of jazz guitar, Conti has an innovative approach for breaking down and presenting jazz instruction. He gets you up and running quickly – no tedious theory, exercises or methodology to master before getting some solid lines and chord melodies under your belt.	>> Lesson Tab (PDF) Bossanova Solo 1-2 Measures 1-4 Measures 5-8 Measures 9-12
	NYC Jazz Workshop How would you like to sneak into one of the premier jazz workshops in the country? On this channel, Bruce Arnold—the Director of Guitar Studies at New York University, guides you through the NYU Summer Guitar Intensive. You’ll learn everything from theory to 12-tone improvisation from artists such as Mimi Fox, Alex Skolnick, Sheryl Bailey, Jane Getter, Kenny Wessel and Gene Ess. Dig in!
	Jazzed Blues Mark Stefani, top-notch solo guitar player with a pedigree a mile long, is also one the most prolific and well-rounded guitar instructors on the planet. Jazzed Blues focuses solely on developing a vocabulary of versatile jazzed blues phrases for use as solo building blocks. The course is ideal for intermediate to advanced players.	>> Lesson Tab (PDF) Set 1: Phrase A Phrase B Phrase C
	Gypsy Guitarre Gypsy jazz guitar is very much alive and well thanks to the young players who embrace the style made popular by Django many years ago -- and no one does it better than Joscho Stephan from Germany. "The first thing about Joscho that strikes the listener is the incredible cleanliness of his fingering execution. No matter how fast and intricate, no technical demands seem to ruffle this monster chopster in the least." With his father Günter (rhythm guitar) and Max Schaaf (double bass), Joscho’s CD ‘Swinging Strings’ was the CD of the month in Guitar Player Magazine. Gypsy Guitarre shows off Joscho's vision and energy over 8 exhilarating episodes.
	Jazzed Blues Assembly Lines Mark Stefani's Assembly Lines covers funky rhythm and blues stylings and fretboard concepts of top players like George Benson, Kenny Burrell and Grant Green. First we'll break down the 12-bar blues progression into logical sections and then builds your vocabulary of versatile jazzed blues phrases, which can played over I, IV and V-IV-I changes. Once your vocabulary of phrases is up to snuff, you'll assemble the phrases into four full-chorus solos that will turn heads at the next session or jam.	>> Lesson Tab (PDF) Phrase A Phrase B Phrase C Phrase D Full description and audio samples of Assembly Lines