So You Want To Be A Torch Singer II
Instructor: Patty Stephens
Tuesdays, 6:30-8:00 PM February 12-April 8 (no class March 25)
8 weeks: Members-$100 General-$110
 (tuition includes lab fee for a rhythm section)
You’ve pushed through your stage fright, your repertoire is becoming more sophisticated and you are looking at your tunes with new awareness. What’s next? Diva Class II will give you the opportunity to work with a rhythm section, culminating in a performance in front of a live audience.
 This time around, the class is 8 weeks long.
Patty Stephens made her stage debut at the age of three. By the age of 14 she was performing in musical theatre for audiences in Denver, Colorado. Patty’s professional career as an actress, singer and costume designer began with teaching drama in Cuernavaca , Mexico when she was 18 years old. Patty moved to Albuquerque in 1985 pursuing Jazz. Since then she has been performing in Clubs, theatres and churches. She teaches private and group lessons in her studio and holds a workshop she has developed called “Singing as a Martial Art”.

**Please register early. Classes subject to minimum enrollment.**

Latin Jazz Workshop
Instructor: Rodolfo Gonzalez
Mondays 6:00-7:30 PM
March 24-April 28
6 weeks: Members-$60 General-$70
Come explore the beautiful melodies and exciting rhythms of composers such as Antonio Carlos Jobim (Brazilian) and Tito Puente (Puerto Rican) in this six week class. Instructor Rodolfo Gonzalez brings his expertise in both Brazilian jazz and salsa music to this great workshop. All
instruments welcome (including voice).
Originally from Guatemala, flutist/arranger/composer Rodolfo Gonzalez has lived in New Mexico since 1991. Since that time, he has been musical director for the salsa bands Casa Blanca and Charanga del Valle as well as the Latin jazz group, Terra Plena.

Adult Big Band
Instructors: Kent Erickson, Bruce Dalby
Sundays, 12:30-2:00 PM
February 10-April 20 (No class Easter Sunday, March 23)
10 weeks: Members-$90 General-$100
This ten-week class provides the thrill of successfully negotiating big band arrangements. Class time focuses on developing and refining a varied repertoire of jazz arrangements. A recital will be presented to provide a showcase for the band’s accomplishments. The possibility of other performance opportunities is open to exploration.

Enrollment is on a first-come, first-serve basis until all chairs are full.

Trumpeter Kent Erickson is band director at Hoover Middle School and a member of the Albuquerque Jazz Orchestra (AJO). Trumpeter Bruce Dalby is professor of music education at UNM and also a member of the AJO.

Blues Guitar Class
Instructor: Dan Dowling
Mondays, 6:30-8:00 PM
February 11-March 17
6 weeks: Members-$60 General-$70
This six week class will explore a variety of Blues guitar styles including Country Blues, Chicago Riff Blues, Slow 12/8 Blues, Swing Blues, Boogie Woogie Blues, Minor Blues, and Jazz Blues. The Guitar styling of some legendary players will also be examined.
Dan Dowling is probably best known to folks in New Mexico as the guitar player with Cadillac Bob and the Rhinestones and Alma. He has also performed with Bo Diddley, Mary Wells , Del Shannon, the Platters, the Coasters, The Drifters, The Krystals, The Shirrells, The Shangri-Las, Rich Little, Patti Page and Clarence Gatemouth Brown. He was named ‘Best Unsigned Blues Artist’ in 1995 by the Music City Blues Society in Nashville, Tennessee.
Jazz Improvisation
“Bebop Revisited Part 2: The David Baker 55”
Instructor: Cindy Tag
Thursdays 6:30-8:00 PM
February 14-March 20
6 weeks: Members-$60 General-$70
 Returning to the style bebop, this class is the second of a two part series which examines David Baker’s List of 55 Essential BeBop Tunes. The first half of the series is not a pre-requisite. The classes may be taken independently.
At a pace of 4 or 5 tunes per week, we will determine why the tune made the list, distill the most interesting licks from each tune, devise practice patterns and strategies for internalizing those patterns, and improvise over each tune, at very reasonable tempos!
Knowledge of and ability to play major scales in all twelve keys is helpful prior to class, however, all levels are accepted. .
Cindy Tag has a Master’s degree in Jazz from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, where she studied with Jerry Coker. Subsequent teachers include David Baker, David Liebman, and Eddie Daniels. Since moving to Albuquerque in 1997, Cindy has taught music privately and gigs regularly with the Blues Kings, Café Mocha, the Koolers, Savoy, and
Swingset.

Advanced Jazz Guitar
Instructor: Lewis Winn
Thursdays 6:30-8:00 PM March 27-May 1 6 weeks Members– $80 General $90
This six week course is designed to help those who already “speak jazz” with a guitar become more fluent in the language. Basic chord, scale and arpeggio knowledge is assumed as well as rudimentary reading skills. Expanding that vocabulary and the ability to “freely converse” musically is the goal of this course.
Harmonic analysis, passing chords/substitutions/extensions/inversions/partials, altered dominant scales/chords and reharmonization as applied to soloing and comping in the small ensemble setting will be extensively explored.
 Class size is limited, so sign up early!
 Guitarist/bassist Lewis Winn has performed professionally for over 30 years. In addition to his 30 years of private instruction, he has been an adjunct faculty member at the College of Santa Fe since 1994. In recent years , Lewis has been a featured artist with Max Roach, Eddie Harris and Richie Cole among others. Currently he is the leader/arranger for the group “The Alpha Cats.”