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🎷 Jody Espina Saxophone Weekend 🎷🎷 13th - 14th May 2023 🎷
St Leonards Hotel, Ringwood, BH24 2NR.
🎷 Jody Espina Saxophone Weekend 🎷🎷 13th - 14th May 2023 🎷
St Leonards Hotel, Ringwood, BH24 2NR.
Jody Espina is an internationally acclaimed Saxophonist and Jazz educator. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1983, Espina performed and taught music in Barcelona Spain and toured with the Tommy Dorsey Orchestra before settling in New York City in 1985. Espina’s extensive private studies include such masters of Jazz Saxophone and Improvisation as Joe Viola, Joe Allard, Dave Liebman, George Garzone and Joanne Brackeen.
“What gets you up early in the morning? After this weekend I hope the answer will be the Saxophone! We’ll be playing together as a group, a lot. I would like these sessions to be about more playing than lecturing. All levels of players are invited, from beginners to advanced players. Making you a more natural and relaxed player will be one of the weekend’s main goals. And having more fun with the saxophone will be the result. I can’t wait to see you all there. We’re going to have a blast!” Jody Espina
May 13th / 14th 2023 – We are delighted to announce the Jody Espina Saxophone Weekend. Saxophonist, educator, and president of JodyJazz Mouthpieces, Jody will be hosting a two day saxophone masterclass and workshop. Travelling all the way from the USA, you are not going to want to miss this fantastic weekend of Jody explaining all things saxophone.
“What gets you up early in the morning? After this weekend I hope the answer will be the Saxophone! We’ll be playing together as a group, a lot. I would like these sessions to be about more playing than lecturing. All levels of players are invited, from beginners to advanced players. Making you a more natural and relaxed player will be one of the weekend’s main goals. And having more fun with the saxophone will be the result. I can’t wait to see you all there. We’re going to have a blast!” Jody Espina
Open to levels from; Relative Beginner – Minimum 1 year Playing – Reading music is not a requirement, to advanced players.
More About Jody….
Once in New York City, Espina enjoyed a very successful career for over 15 years as a professional musician, performing, recording and teaching music. He performed numerous concerts with a variety of major acts, regularly performed in Broadway pit orchestras, recorded various movie sound tracks and was also the head of the Jazz Department for The Hoff-Barthelson Music School.
In 2000 Espina founded JodyJazz® Inc., a world leader in the manufacture of premium quality Saxophone Mouthpieces. Espina attributes the phenomenal growth of the company to a dedication to quality control, innovative designs and the use of cutting edge technologies. In 2008 Espina moved JodyJazz and his family to Savannah Georgia in order to be closer to family. Since 2018 Espina has lead a radical expansion of JodyJazz with significantly increased global distribution and the acquisition of the famous Chedeville® and E. Rousseau® mouthpiece brands.
In addition to his day-to-day duties as President of JodyJazz Inc., Espina maintains an active performance schedule appearing regularly in the Savannah area and across the southeast USA. He is also a highly sought-after clinician, regularly performing saxophone master classes and workshops around the world.
Day 1
- Relax Into Your Best Sound Ever
Are you breathing properly to relax?
Are you using the right reed strength to relax?
Are you pushing your mouthpiece into the correct position to relax? - Improvising Without Fear or Judgment
Begin working with the Minor Pentatonic Scale
Call & Response and Group Playing
Have the most fun you’ve ever had improvising
Day 2
- Developing A Daily Practice Routine
Part I – Sound – developing a peaceful calming way to warm up and work on your sound
Part II – Technique – Geared to give you better technique while increasing Improvising Vocabulary (practice slow to play fast)
Part III – Repertoire – Learning new songs ( by ear – don’t worry, I promise you can do it)
Part IIII – Fun Fun Fun – playing what you love and goofing off with the saxophone - Putting It All Together
How to practice and thrive over chord changes
Q & A – What else do you want to know?
The Worst Solo Challenge – Prizes awarded to the truly terrible. See if you can play worse than Jody.
Group Composition – Finishing and Performing the Group Composition and Improvising Over it
We will also have a respected saxophone repairer on-site for the weekend. Griff can check over and fix simple issues to your instrument for only £5. If any additional work needs doing you can discuss this with Griff. Contact Griff direct at dgmusic@hotmail.co.uk to discuss and book checks/repairs in advance.
Jody is hosting a mouthpiece fitting service on Friday 12th May between 4pm – 7pm at All Saints Church, Castlemain Avenue, Bournemouth, BH6 5EH. If you’ve booked onto the workshop and would like a session with Jody to discuss your current setup please contact us at hello@abworkshops.com. Strictly by appointment only. If you are not attending the workshop there is still the possibility of attending subject to availability.
- Based at St Leonards Hotel in beautiful Dorset, with excellent facilities
- Two full days of tutor lead sessions, four sessions per day
- Suitable for the following instruments: Saxophone
- Workshop runs from 10am – 5pm each day, with two 30 minute breaks and a 1.5 hour lunch break
- Optional: A Hot lunch (including requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc)
- Refreshments; Tea, coffee (including freshly made filter coffee), juices, a variety of biscuits, fresh pastries
- Prices range from £150-£175 for two days
- FREE parking
- On-site accommodation (subject to availability). Not included in the price, please book direct with the hotel
- Safe, simple, secure. We have now set it up for you to be able to book easier than ever before, simply BOOK ONLINE
- Deposit scheme now available; pay £50 to reserve a space on a future workshop and pay the balance 3 months before workshop date
- Payment plan scheme now available; pay £25 upfront and then pay monthly by direct debit for the balance
Alternatively if you have any questions on the suitability of this course for you we will be happy to help. Contact us at hello@abworkshops.com or by calling 07711 998058 and we will be happy to discuss your needs further.
We are very excited to announce that sponsors of the Jody Espina Saxophone Weekend have been very generous in giveaways that participants on the workshop will win!
- Announcement 1 – D’Addario Woodwinds – A box of their D’Addario Organic Reserve/Select Jazz reeds and a D’Addario reed case for one lucky winner!
- Announcement 2 – Rovner Products – A Platinum Gold ligature in whatever size for your mouthpiece for one lucky winner!
- Announcement 3 – Tomplay – A year subscription to Tomplay for two lucky winners!
- Announcement 4 – Nigel McGill Sax School – A coupon for a month of free lessons in their program (value $57) for one lucky winner!
- Announcement 5 – P.Mauriat Saxophones – A custom-made Silver Plated Tenor neck which was co-designed with P.Mauriat’s most prestigious artist Kirk Whalum for one lucky winner! That’s a saxophone neck worth £799 that someone on the workshop will win, and it will fit other horns such as Selmer, Yamaha…etc and is not limited to P. Mauriat saxes
- Announcement 6 – JodyJazz – The winner gets to choose either an HR* or Jet mouthpiece!
- Announcement 7 – Better Sax – A one month membership to the BetterSax Studio program for three lucky winners!
A hot lunch is included if you choose that option when making the booking (including requirements such as vegetarian, gluten intolerance etc).
Arrive: 9.30am onwards
Session one: 10am – 11.15am
Morning break: 11.15am – 11.45am
Session two: 11.45am – 1pm
Lunch: 1pm – 2.30pm
Session three: 2.30pm – 3.30pm
Afternoon break: 3.30pm – 4pm
Session four: 4pm – 5pm
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