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FOR INFORMATION CONCERNING 25th SAXOPHONE MASTER CLASS (JULY/AUGUST 2012):

GO TO 

http://steinhardt.nyu.edu/music/jazz/programs/summer/saxphone

 

and also on this site: EDUCATION TAB:MASTER CLASSES 

 

JANUARY/FEBRUARY ITINERARY( go to appropriate web site for venues, dates):

 

 

TOUR OF SWEDEN WITH MATS HOLMQUIST BIG BAND PLAYING MUSIC OF WAYNE SHORTER

 

SIBA FEST AT SIBELIUS ACADEMY, HELSINKI, FINLAND-WORKSHOP/ PERFORMANCES WITH ORCHESTRA AND SMALL GROUP

 

BIRDLAND (NYC) WITH CONTACT: MARC COPLAND, JOHN ABERCROMBIE, BILLY HART, DREW GRESS

 

 

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RECENT ACCOLADES:

 

NEA MASTERS OF JAZZ - 2011

 

DAVE LIEBMAN GROUP - BEST PERFORMANCE OF THE YEAR - 2011 (NY JAZZ and ALL ABOUT JAZZ)

 

WINNER OF DOWNBEAT (2011) AND JAZZ TIMES (2011/2012) CRITIC'S POLLS FOR SOPRANO SAX

 

FRENCH ORDER OF ARTS AND LETTERS - 2010

 

GERMAN JAZZ JOURNALISTS RECORD OF THE YEAR - 2010

 

 

David Liebman is considered a renaissance man in contemporary music with a career stretching over forty years. He has played with many of the masters including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, John McLaughlin, McCoy Tyner and others; authored books and instructional DVDs which are acknowledged as classics in the jazz field; recorded as a leader in styles ranging from classical to rock to free jazz; founded the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ); a multiple Grammy nominee; inducted into the International Association of Jazz Educator's Hall of Fame; the recipient of an Honorary Doctorate from the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland) and accolades listed above. He has been featured on several hundred recordings with over 100 as a leader/co-leader featuring several hundred original compositions.

 

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 of sections click  HERE.

 

FROM LIEB:

Hello to you all and welcome to my web site. Besides the usual publicity material, itineraries and available products which one normally encounters on artist web sites, over the years I have tried to make this site into a repository of information about jazz for those who are seriously interested in the art form. Specifically, past newsletters, educational articles, private archive recordings, photos and interviews should be of particular interest. As a result of over forty years of being a jazz artist, there is a lot of information here. Please check the itinerary monthly lsited here on the main page and my facebook site for updates and blogs on what I am presently doing. Feel free to contact me (CONTACT TAB ABOVE) for any specific musical questions. Enjoy!!

 

"Liebman is among the most important saxophonists in contemporary music . . . a leader and artist of integrity and independent direction." Downbeat Magazine

“While others of his ‘60s generation have fallen off their ambition, Liebman has remained dogged about composition and trying different styles…he’s a fighter.” (Ben Ratliff-NY Times)

 

 

DESCRIBING THE JAZZ MOMENT

By Dave Liebman

What does it feel like when you are in the vortex, the eye of the hurricane? To me it is aptly put by the French; you are (at least temporarily) "Le Roi du Monde."  For those moments when I (as a horn player) am playing in front of a good rhythm section, I am simply "the king of the world"--everything is perfect!! One is in complete control; you can do whatever you want within that space inhabited at the moment. You are truly the master of the universe...not the cliche.. the real deal! Getting to that place takes years of experience and observing those who are ahead of you on line. There is a confidence, an unseen swagger, an assertiveness (even if the music is gentle). It's so good that all you want is to repeat it... like a junkie...hooked forever.

George Carlin, one of the all time great comedians and observer's of the human condition in his autobiography(Last Words) describes the feeling I'm referring to:

"There is nothing happening in the universe outside of that reality and that experience. When besides that I'm being rewarded with all this approval, attention, approbation for something that is solely mine and only I can do. There can't be anything better than that. To be intensely alone, intensely myself, in control of everything, the center of a self created universe."