Tour Itinerary (back
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Past itineraries - sorted by state and performance
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6/13/10 - 6/18/10 Nashville, TN - Belmont University Residency
8/13/10 TBA San Jose, CA San Jose Jazz Festival
8/30/10 New York, NY US Open Opening Ceremonies
9/30/10 THRU 10/3/10 Costa Mesa, CA Orange County Performing Arts Center
10/15/10 TBA Los Angeles, CA Asian American Music Festival
4/5/11 7:00 PM Jackson, MS Jackson State University
Program Options (back
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Workshop offerings
From a one-hour Masterclass
to week-long residencies, this Jazz at Lincoln Center Musical Ambassador
and Yamaha-sponsored artist and clinician DANA LEONG will deliver
"hands down excellent" (NY Magazine) performances and
workshops to your community. Dana will work with you to build a
unique program for your audience. Sample topics include:
****Diversity
and Urban Culture
For an Asian-American
artist of Japanese and Chinese descent, growing up in San Francisco
during the heyday of 90’s hip-hop, diversity and urban culture
dominate his creative DNA. In this autobiographical lecture / demo,
Dana Leong discusses the significance of hip-hop in today’s
youth culture, and explores a variety of ethnic, social and musical
influences that inform, challenge and shape his life as an artist.
****Artists as
Entrepreneurs
This interactive
lecture / demo deliver deeply into key aspects of Dana Leong’s
artistic career, and the inner-workings of his life as an independent
musician living and working in New York. He explores the ties between
the different worlds of recording, performing, touring, and producing
music in multiple genres, balance between business and art, tools
to promote one’s music, and his recipe for success.
****We Are All
Improvisers
Dana Leong shares
his mind-stretching exercises to help musicians and artists of all
levels and disciplines unlock their creative potential. By exploring
methods used frequently in theater, public speaking, and poetry,
Dana encourages participants to stimulate the parts of the brain
which set motion to story-telling, the imagination, free association,
and spontaneous musical creation.
****Rhymes and Rhythms
Members of Dana
Leong’s ensemble Milk & Jade demonstrate their techniques
for collaborations between musicians and vocalists. Rhythmic exercises
and musical activities are provided for participants to explore
their individual expression. Group discussions will explore history
of hip-hop and creative ways incorporate personal emotion into music.
****Composing
and Performing With Laptop
Have you ever
seen a performance or listened to a piece of music and wondered,
‘how did they do that?’ From the fundamentals of choosing
equipment to advanced concepts of sound manipulation, Dana Leong
demonstrates the ins and outs of using computers to compose music
and manipulate acoustic instruments.
****Jazz in the
Hip-Hop World
Two of the world’s
most popular musical genres are distinctly American and much more
similar than we know. However, a few key differences give Hip-Hop
and Jazz their own unique flavors. Dana Leong discusses trials,
successes, discoveries, and helpful points which help to create
powerful chemistry between the two genres, by dissecting instruments,
classic rhythms, samples, drum patterns, and effective songwriting
methods.
Recent Appearances:
Howard University
University of Massachusetts
Belmont University
Stanford University
Franklin & Marshall College
UCLA
Marymount Manhattan College
University of Colorado\
Lionel Hampton School of Music
Brooklyn Academy of Music
Duke Ellington Jazz Festival
Dizzy’s Coca Cola Club
Apollo Theater
Huntington Arts Festival
Rochester Summer Festival
Reviews and comments (back
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Hey House--it worked out great. The show was awesome, we had a packed
house and I got the check from our accounting people 45 minutes
before the show--so in the end--it all worked out! It was worth
the work--they put on a great show.
Dan Sepion, Residential College Director, Washington University
- Saint Louis, MO
GREAT! Everyone loved it. We had students through parents and staff
in the audience and all ages loved it. Thanks so much.
Sharon
Williamson - Cultural Arts Director - Colby Sawyer College, New
London, NH
The show was great. Near the end of the semester so the students
really got a lot out of it.
Len Harmon, Nichols College, Dudley, MA
Dana and company blew the roof off the place.. a crowd pleaser.
We had an attendance of 175 with a balanced representation of the
community, students and college staff. Dana did a wonderful job
of keeping the audience engaged, our students stayed really tuned
in. They were all very easy toe work with and made us all very comfortable
to interact with from load-in to load-out. This program was just
perfect for our Culture Fest 2009.
Chris Mikkelsen, Director of Student Activities - Normandale
Community College - Bloomington, MN
“It
is actually comforting that an artist of this generation has instilled
his poetry with a universal vision that permeates the state of art,
music, race and the world.”
All About Jazz
“Dana is an amazing teacher and performer. He is able to show
new musical styles to the students in ways they understand, in an
exciting but unthreatening and positive way. The students are completely
enchanted by him. He is the essence of cool.”
Celeste Myall, Belmont University, Nashville, TN
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