{"id":365,"date":"2011-06-21T16:57:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:57:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vandfam.net\/dev\/wordpressmu\/college\/?p=365"},"modified":"2011-06-21T16:57:06","modified_gmt":"2011-06-21T16:57:06","slug":"cool-jazz-in-hot-june-new-workshop-is-sweet-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/?p=365","title":{"rendered":"Cool jazz in hot June: New workshop is sweet success"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_366\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-366\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/13image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-366\" title=\"13image\" src=\"https:\/\/casdev.unc.edu\/collegearchive\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/13image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dylan Gilroy, a UNC senior, practices with his combo at the summer jazz workshop<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Freedom. During the middle of the summer, many people associate freedom with fireworks and picnics. But Cameron Cook of Mooresville, N.C., an incoming first-year student at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, enjoys the freedom that comes with playing his saxophone.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are so many different things you can do with this genre of music,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cook, who has been playing the saxophone for the past eight years and plans to major in music at UNC, was one of about 40 students who participated in the first summer jazz workshop, hosted by the music department in UNC\u2019s College of Arts and Sciences.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"UNC Summer Jazz Workshop\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8IOIPSSDBGc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Stephen Anderson, an assistant professor of music, directed the workshop and said it\u2019s one of the only programs in the country where a student can earn up to three hours of college credit in one week. The workshop was also open to high school students and community members.<\/p>\n<p>The schedule included jazz theory classes in the morning, followed by practice and combo sessions in the afternoon and public concerts every evening, most of which were conducted in the Kenan Music Building.<\/p>\n<p>The opening concert was held on the Polk Place lawn and featured a special guest, UNC Chancellor Holden Thorp on bass guitar.<\/p>\n<p>Cook said he especially appreciated the one-on-one aspect of the camp.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe professors are great,\u201d he said.\u00a0 \u201cWhen we come here, we\u2019re really challenged to do new things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The music department plans to continue the new jazz tradition next summer. For more information, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/music.unc.edu\/\">http:\/\/music.unc.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[ Story, photos and video by Mary Lide Parker \u201910 ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dylan Gilroy, a UNC senior, practices with his combo at the summer jazz workshop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":1641,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-carousel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/collegearchive.unc.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}