4th Annual, Texas Jazz & Blues Camp

www.TexasJazzAndBluesCamp.com

• Texas Jazz & Blues Camp, is a partnership between the New School of Music and the Litchfield Jazz Camp & Festival in Connecticut (the oldest and largest on the east coast)
• June 2019 is the 4^th year of the camp, and TJBC plans to add a residential camp option next year.
• Texas Jazz  & Blues  Camp is an all-embracing program focused on musical and personal growth where students can learn by hearing the greats on from the staff and each other. While the commitment to the music is at the highest level, the program is not competitive. There is no pre-audition required.
• The camp has world class instructors, including:
  • Don Braden, a world-renowned jazz educator and performer, who is the Jazz Music Director for both the Texas Jazz Camp & the Litchfield Jazz Camp. Don is a Harvard alumnus who is based in the NYC area, & is a former sideman with Wynton Marsalis, Freddie Hubbard, Tony Williams, Roy Haynes and others.
  • Andre Hayward is a consummate jazz artist & educator who has performed extensively with The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (directed by Wynton Marsalis),Chick Corea, Jason Moran,  San Francisco Jazz Collective, Roy Hargrove, and Betty Carter.   Andre has served as jazz trombone professor at New England Conservatory, NYU, UNT, UT Austin, New School of Jazz & Contemporary Music (NYC), and Michigan State University.
  • Tom Brechtlein is a renowned world-class drummer who has achieved remarkable success in jazz, rock, and pop genres and has performed/recorded with Chick Corea, Wayne Shorter, Al Di Meola, Robben Ford, Eric Johnson, Joe Farrell, Jean Luc Ponty, Rickie Lee Jones, Kenny Loggins, and The Manhattan Transfer.