Workshops and Stefan Walcott

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I love doing workshops.

Here I am at Edna Manley College in Jamaica speaking to how Dancehall music can be used as melodic and harmonic material for Jazz large ensemble.

The case study here is Summertime, the Vybz Kartel composition mixed with the more well known Gershwin one. The students are using the fused melody to go through various Caribbean styles as well.

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Stefan Walcott is a Barbadian pianist and composer. Throughout his career, Stefan has been privileged to perform with and write for a broad cross-section of artists in England, where he studied and in his native Barbados. Stefan has arranged for Nicholas Brancker, the Brazilian Sinfonica and created Handel’s Caribbean Messiah, a re-working of the classical work. Stefan currently is the director of 1844 Productions Inc. a production company, and 1688 Dingolay Inc. a not-for-profit. Stefan currently has a PhD in cultural studies with an interest in the music of the English-speaking Caribbean.

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