Beautiful night at the Improv Music Workshop
July 10, 2010
I found this at the Madison Jazz Events page-- interesting and nice! Saturday, May 29th, 2010 · 1 Comment Last night I met many new friends and joined with them to make music; I went to the second occasion of Laurie Lang’s new Improvisation…
The Original Music Was REALLY nice!
June 26, 2010
We easily filled our time with all the people who came with their original compositions. We had 11 different musicians actively playing last night, Allen composed something just for the event, Marianne tried out something in progress with several…
June 25 – Original Music Only!
June 21, 2010
This weeks theme is REALLY simple. We will play music composed only by muscians in the room. John Becker and Laurie will start things off. If you have a tune, melody, chart, idea for a free improvisation that's what we'll play. If you want others to…
June 11, Friday – Space: a Minimalistic approach
June 7, 2010
IMW is for Professional Musicians, Amateur Musicians, Growing Musicians, Friends of Musicians and all people who love music and want to listen and support some creative musical expression! This week’s theme is Space: a Minimalistic approach…
The room was full and about 25 musicians appeared “on stage” at IMW on May 28
May 30, 2010
The session started with Sally de Broux singing, Andrew Rohn on piano and Laurie Lang on bass violin. We played a few songs, set up some examples of the type "Single Line Groove" session we were calling people to. We had at least 30 musicians in the…
Beautiful Music was made and what a GREAT turn out!!!
May 29, 2010
THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO CAME OUT TONIGHT! WOW! THAT WAS SWEET AND GREAT FUN!
Friday,Start your Memorial Day weekend with some song making! Join us for the Fun!
May 25, 2010
Sally de Broux and Laurie Lang will lead this session. We look forward to building some songs with YOU! This can be a lot of FUN for everyone! Washington Hotel Coffee Room, Lakeside Street 6- 8pm. Come and bring your friends and family!
May 28th – Single Line Groove and Song Building
May 21, 2010
ON Friday! May 28th from 6-8pm – the theme will be: Single Line Groove and Song Building So these are the "rules" for this "game" of Improv Workshop: We will begin by creating "songs" from scratch. Each player will only play a single line.…
First Workshop went very well!
May 19, 2010
We had a beautiful evening. The setting was so great for music making. If you've not been to Washington Hotel Coffee Room you really need to check it out. Hardwood floors so the look and sound is natural The coffee is fair trade and delicious…
TODAY WE BEGIN! May 14
May 14, 2010
John Becker will be at the piano, Sally de Broux will be singing and Laurie will be on the bass to get things going! We’ll start off with a 5/4 version on “Over the Rainbow” a 6/8 version of Skylark and some playing around with the “feel” on a few…
Improv Workshops begin… Friday, May 14th!
May 6, 2010
John Becker IMW (Improvisational Music Workshop) will meet twice a month on Fridays from 6-8pm at the Washington Hotel Coffee Room located on Lakeside Street in Madison. All people, all ages are invited to attend, observe, cheer us on, eat the…