Leeds International Jazz Conference 2010:
Improvisation - Jazz in The Creative Moment
Thursday 25 – Friday 26 March 2010
Thursday 25 – Friday 26 March 2010
Launched in 1993, the annual Leeds International Jazz Conference is the leading performance and research-based event of its kind in Europe.
The event welcomes delegates from around the world to participate in a series of cross-disciplinary presentations, performances, workshops and discussion groups and provides opportunities for Leeds College of Music students to showcase their work. The 16th Leeds International Jazz Conference takes place at Leeds College of Music from Thursday 25 to Friday 26 March 2010. LIJC is an annual event focusing on jazz research, education and performance. It is the only conference of its kind in the UK and offers a unique forum for musicians, academics, educators, students, and arts organisers to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz. Along with paper presentations, workshops, performances and jam sessions, there are opportunities for discussion, networking, information exchange, and professional development.
LIJC 2010 focuses on the very heart of jazz – improvisation, and in keeping with this important theme we are delighted to welcome two eminent keynote speakers/performers.
Dave Liebman, saxophonist (ex-Miles Davis and Elvin Jones), improviser, composer, recording artist and educator, is our Jazz Keynote. He will address the conference on maintaining creativity in improvisation and its teaching, offer a seminar on his Chromatic Approach to Jazz Harmony and Melody (1991/2006), run a practical workshop and perform in concert.
Our academic keynote speaker is Professor Paul Berliner (Duke University), whose highly influential Thinking in Jazz: the Infinite Art of Improvisation (1994) has invigorated a generation of jazz research and scholarship. He will address the conference on the parallels between his study of the New York jazz scene and his longstanding research on mbira players in Zimbabwe. A specific panel and paper session will be devoted to discussing and evaluating Thinking in Jazzin terms ofits impacton jazzscholarship and methodology.
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Call for Papers and Workshop ProposalsThe conference committee invites proposals for research papers, workshops, lecture-recitals, panels and roundtable discussions. The deadline for the submissions of proposals is Friday 18 December 2009. We welcome presentations that advance the field of jazz improvisation, such as creative innovation in improvisational practice, the emergence of cross-disciplinary thinking and the development of new jazz scholarship. We also particularly welcome contributions to the discussion and evaluation of jazz scholarship through the prism of Berliner’s Thinking in Jazz.
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