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Event Type Description
Each week we upload a free Mini-Lesson to our YouTube channel featuring one of our Presenting Artists.
Topic
Transforming Linear Writing Into Solo Chord Changes
Description
Trombonist, composer, & bandleader Sam Blakeslee discusses how to take linear melodic ideas and turn them into chords for improvisation using his piece “Another Day In Which To Excel.”
About the Presenting Artists(s)
Sam Blakeslee is an award-winning Connecticut/New York City-based trombonist and composer. Most recently, he was named a 2025 Rising Star Trombonist of The Year in Downbeat Magazine Critics’ Poll. He has performed at iconic jazz clubs such as Birdland, Dizzy’s Club, The Jazz Gallery, Smalls, Zinc Bar, 55 Bar, and the Blue Note, The Kennedy Center, and Lincoln Center, among others. Sam leads an 18-piece jazz orchestra, the Sam Blakeslee Large Group, which will release a debut album New Blood on September 25, 2026 on Brooklyn Jazz Underground Records.
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