Susanna Klein has been working on a really cool project in the past few years: Practizma. This is a journal that takes you through 16 weeks of guided practice, with goal setting, reflection prompt, action challenges, and journal pages to track your practice. In addition to this very cool system, we talk about Susanna’s background,… Continue reading 707: Susanna Klein on Practizma
Category: Podcast
706: Tom Walley on staying active during quarantine
Tom Walley has certainly been keeping busy during the quarantine, publishing a ton content on his Instagram and YouTube, including his arrangement of the Adagio from Mahler’s 9th Symphony with his fellow London Philharmonic Orchestra section members. Tom and I talk about this recording and his other quarantine projects, canceled tours, moving out of London… Continue reading 706: Tom Walley on staying active during quarantine
705: Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn on bass duo adventures
I’ve been following along with the musical adventures of Hans Roelofsen and Rudolph Senn for years. They have toured the world as a bass duo, with 15 trips to the United States alone. Throughout these trips, they have collected some fantastic stories. We dig into these stories, how they came to play as a duo,… Continue reading 705: Hans Roelofsen and Rudolf Senn on bass duo adventures
704: Bill Rinehart and Jaime Slutzky on online learning
Bill Rinehart has been teaching jazz piano online for the past 13 years, and he has been working with Jaime Slutzky recently to redevelop certain aspects of his online offerings. I’ve been obsessed with finding new ways to frame the private lesson experience for years, and the current pandemic has made music teachers across the… Continue reading 704: Bill Rinehart and Jaime Slutzky on online learning
703: Abo Gumroyan on taking chances
Abo Gumroyan truly is a musical chameleon. In addition to winning Grammys with the Pacific Mambo Orchestra, Abo has played with the San Francisco Symphony, played on countless sessions, worked on Las Vegas shows, and much more. We dig into Abo’s musical background, his time studying with Scott Pingel, Steve Tramontozzi, David Allen Moore, and… Continue reading 703: Abo Gumroyan on taking chances