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Experience Jazz 2020: The Sounds of Distance

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Pilot 90 03:23
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SEVEN 04:35
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Muertos 03:04
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Luv Myself 02:58
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The teen artists from Minnesota Jazz Education’s “Experience Jazz” combo program release this collection of 13 hybrid-jazz tracks all recorded, mixed, and produced from home in the early days of the COVID-19 Pandemic. Released by the High School for Recording Arts' (HSRA) student-run record label “Another Level Records.”

The 13 tracks on ‘Experience Jazz 2020: The Sounds of Distance’ reflect the various influences for Generation Z. Original R&B compositions, “SEVEN” and “Pilot 90,” were composed collectively by students in LA Buckner’s combo, and feature the promising young vocalist Eycis Maxon.
The groove-heavy and fast swinging jazz arrangements from Omar Abdulkarim’s students in “Get Dis Money” and “Mental Phrasing” respectively, reflect the already mature tastes of these young jazz players.

The hip-hop tracks were created and produced by Scotty Herold's studio team of students ranging in age from 12 to 18. The lyrics featured students’ identity and heritage in “Muertos” and hot takes on life experiences, the world, and music in the cover of War’s “The World is A Ghetto 2020,” featuring young rappers Abdullahi Jama and Pablo Manu, alongside teacher Scotty Herold.

The album also includes 5 remixes by studio interns TL Reigns and DJ Mickey Breeze who use their artistry to spin the students’ initial ideas into fresh new beats. The interns also mixed and mastered all tracks on the album.

ABOUT EXPERIENCE JAZZ
‘Experience Jazz’ is a genre-bridging music ensemble program run by Minnesota Jazz Education (MJE) designed for instrumentalists, vocalists, rappers and DJs, with a goal of fostering creativity and collaboration by bringing together aspiring artists from diverse backgrounds with a common desire to make new music rooted in jazz, blues, pop and hip-hop. Presented in partnership with HSRA, students rehearse together in HSRA’s state-of-the-art Studio 4

Led by industry professionals Katia Cardenas, Omar Abdulkarim, Arthur “L.A.” Buckner, and Scotty Herold, the program partnered with Studio 4 at HSRA and Ramsey County's Working Solutions U-Lead Program to give recent HSRA graduates, TL Reigns and DJ Mickey Breeze, paid internships as producers and studio engineers.

Through Experience Jazz, these talented interns, and artists in their right, received job experience in a real-world production environment, while instructing, mentoring, and collaborating with students in beatmaking, songwriting, recording, and studio engineering.

MAKING THE ALBUM
Presented in partnership with HSRA, students rehearsed together in HSRA’s state-of-the-art Studio 4 throughout February and early March 2020. When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit, MJE faced a serious question regarding the fate of this program. With schools suddenly closed, students needed a means to express themselves. While other programs completely shut down, MJE did the difficult work to move Experience Jazz online, which was successful thanks to the dedicated and creative spirit of Experience Jazz teaching artists.

Using video-conferencing, recording software, and other apps, students collaborated on recording projects together. This provided students a creative endeavor during an uncertain time, allowed them to continue seeing and playing for each other, and empowered them to learn how to collaborate remotely.

AN IMPACTFUL PROCESS
“Having the program keep running during the pandemic was really cool because it gave me something to look forward to,” says Gael Manzur Strandlund, Class of 2023.

“Learning from and playing with people who look like me — it makes a difference when you can relate to somebody,” says Jerome Treadwell, Class of 2022.

“Everything about this record is being handled by youth still in their teens including the distribution, marketing, and servicing of the national media and radio,” says teaching artist, Scotty Herold. “The staff mentored Experience Jazz youth to help enhance their performance and recording skills while learning about the great history of jazz music and its influence on hip-hop, gospel, and soul.”

“On behalf of our founder David TC Ellis and our entire HSRA/Studio 4 family, we are proud to partner with MN Jazz Education on such an incredible project! This is what true community collaboration is all about and happens when young people are at the center of our collective work,” said Tony Simmons.

If you’re interested in writing a story about our ‘Experience Jazz 2020: The Sounds of Distance’ release, the Experience Jazz program or students, please reach out using the contact information at the bottom of this page.
Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram at @mnjazzed and @HSRAMinnsota.

This activity is supported, in part, by the City of Saint Paul Cultural Sales Tax Revitalization Program, and by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Metropolitan Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.

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released October 29, 2020

YOUTH MUSICIANS
Ariel Nadine Maurer - Alto Sax
August McKinney - Piano
Gael Manzur Strandlund - Trumpet
Gus Linden - Percussion
Harry Fleek - Drums/Percussion
Henry Huron - Trumpet
Jerome Treadwell - Alto Sax
Nathan Mann - Piano
Sarah Marie Navratil - Tenor sax
Wisdom Bush - Bass, Drums, Guitar, Keys
Eycis Maxon - Lead Vocals
Collin Roycraft - Tenor Saxophone
Eli Zukor-Zimmermann - Upright Bass
Erik McCready - Drums
Evan Thornton - Tenor Saxophone
Felix Neddermeyer - Alto Saxophone
Grace Ramey - Trumpet
Lasse Corson - Keys
Sophia Kickhofel - Alto Saxophone
William Ayers-Moran - Trumpet
Zach Studdiford - Piano
Abdullahi Jama - Rap
Gunnar Nelson - Trumpet
Gustavo Ibarra - Piano
Julen Manzur Strandlund - Electric guitar
Pablo Giebink Valbuena - Rap
Richard Weiss - MC

TEACHERS
Omar Abdulkarim
Arthur "LA" Buckner
Scott Herold

SOUND ENGINEERS/PRODUCERS
TL Reigns
DJ Mickey Breeze

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Experience Jazz is a genre-bridging music ensemble program from non-profit Minnesota Jazz Education and High School for Recording Arts. Designed to foster creativity and collaboration by bringing together instrumentalists, vocalists, rappers, DJs and other aspiring musical artists from diverse backgrounds with a common desire to make new music rooted in jazz, blues, pop and hip-hop. ... more

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