SET 1
SET 2
Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
André White (drums)
Dave Laing (drums)
Élisabeth Provencher (alto)
Annie Dominique (tenor)
Chris Maskell (tenor)
Marshal Herridge (bass)
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Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
André White (drums)
Dave Laing (drums)
Élisabeth Provencher (alto)
Annie Dominique (tenor)
Chris Maskell (tenor)
Marshal Herridge (bass)
Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Adrian Vedady (bass)
Michel Lambert (drums)
Hannah Darroch (flute)
Juan Sebatian Delgado (cello)
Featuring:
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
Rémi Bolduc (alto)
Jonathan Orland (alto)
Philippe Côté (soprano)
Felix Del Tredici (trombone)
Marika Galea (bass)
Aaron Dolman (drums)
Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Cole Birney-Stewart (bass)
Michel Lambert (drums)
Alex Francoeur (tenor)
Chris Edmondson (alto)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
Pierre Mendola (flute)
Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Mike De Masi (bass)
Jim Doxas (drums)
Rémi Bolduc (alto)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
Alexis French (trumpet)
Hannah Darroch (flute)
Patrick Smith (tenor)
Jean-Nicolas Trottier (bass trumpet/trombone)
In this week's session, the ensemble improvises using "air" as a point of departure, and experiments with different participants conducting the group.
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Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Rémi Bolduc (alto saxophone)
Thom Gossage (drums)
Marika Galea (bass)
Lex French (trumpet)
Claire Devlin (tenor saxophone)
Thomas Daudlin (baritone saxophone)
Recorded at Résonance Café, Montreal on April 24, 2018.
Watch the first live performance by the Improv Workshop Project, recorded live at Montreal's Résonance Cafe.
Featuring
Jean-Michel Pilc (piano)
Cole Birney-Stewart (bass)
Aaron Dolman (drums)
Kevin Dean (trumpet)
Lex French (trumpet)
Evan Shay (tenor saxophone)
Rémi Bolduc (alto saxophone)
Jean-Nicolas Trottier (trombone)
Over the course of this week's session, participants explore new compositions by Jean-Nicolas Trottier and Jean-Michel Pilc.
Read MoreThis week's session explores improvisational ideas by saxophonist Rémi Bolduc and drummer Aaron Dolman.
Read MoreThis week, participants explore an improvisation beginning with a piano/trumpet duo and several improvisations inspired by animated films.
Read MoreParticipants experiment with active/non-active listening, improvising in specific scenes, and more.
Read MoreThis week, the musicians improvise without any guidelines, improvise around a pre-determined "scene" with specific instrumental roles, try to play "as unnaturally as possible" and revisit playing duo with drums.
Read MoreThroughout the course of the session, the participants explore different approaches to playing the "cycle of a day."
Read MoreTenor saxophonist Frank Lozano presents ideas involving the manipulation of musical "shapes," an improv game involving changing duets, and more.
Read MoreMontreal-based drummer Thom Gossage leads the ensemble through a piece inspired by one of Anthony Braxton's tone-row organization systems and an original composition entitled "Onus."
Read MoreThis week, the ensemble explores a new piece by Jean-Michel Pilc that he teaches the group by rote.
Read MoreThis session sees the ensemble explore two different pieces by Jean-Michel Pilc, both of which act as looser road maps for improvisation.
Read MoreIn this session, Jean-Michel Pilc brings in a vamp to use as a launching point for improv and trombonist/arranger Jean-Nicolas Trottier leads the group through "First Impressions," a road map he wrote for collective improvisation. Later, both ideas are combined to interesting results.
Read MoreThis week, the session focuses on improvisations where each ensemble member plays around a different note in a chord, improvising in the style of a sarabande and exploring what happens when those two concepts are combined.
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