Last Sunday, we hosted our 2nd annual Open House at the Blue Raccoons’ Studio. It was a lovely afternoon filled with food, drink and community all set to wonderful live jazz performances by our students. Our master teacher, Carey Smith, kicked off the afternoon with several lively duo performances with Bhagwan Khalsa on bass. Our students took over and played ...READ MORE »
This past Sunday, we had the pleasure of hosting Tuck Andress, guitar virtuoso and half of the American jazz duo, Tuck & Patti, for a master jazz clinic at the Blue Raccoon Tunes studio. It was an intimate event open to our current and past guitar students, their families and a few very fortunate friends! Tuck and Patti were ...READ MORE »
“We learn an art or craft by doing the things that we shall have to do when we have learnt it: for instance, men become builders by building houses, harpers by playing on the harp.” – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, Book II.1
The ultimate end of studying jazz music on any instrument is the act of performance, whether solo or in a ...READ MORE »