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An Intimate Music Experience and Lecture Series – The Art of Improvisation

November 12 @ 7:00 pm 8:30 pm

$25 Per Registration

Date: Tuesday, November 12
Time: 7:00 – 8:30 PM
Location: Sonoma Community Center, Room 110
Price: $25 per person

This is the 3rd lecture in a series of 4 music lectures

About the lecture

Virtuoso artist and legendary Bay Area pianist Larry Dunlap will take the audience through the thought process of an improvising musician. Theme and variation. Interaction with fellow bandmates. Improvisor’s vocabulary. One does NOT need to be a musician to appreciate and understand this class!

About the lecturer

Larry Dunlap

Lecturer / Artist

Pianist, composer and arranger Larry Dunlap has a multifaceted career that includes extensive work in the fields of jazz, classical and popular music.

Since the early 1980s Larry has been a pianist in North America with the British singer Dame Cleo Laine and her musician husband Sir John Dankworth. His past work has seen him appearing and/or recording with jazz vocalists Mark Murphy, Sheila Jordan, Ernestine Anderson and Joe Williams as well as instrumentalists Gerry Mulligan, Art Farmer, Ralph Towner, Ernie Watts, Bud Shank and Larry Coryell, to name a few.

In the pop music field Larry has toured with The Pointer Sisters, Country Joe McDonald, and others. He appears as keyboardist, arranger, and producer on many recordings. Larry transcribes and edits music for publications from Sher Music Company. These include The New Real Book, Volumes 2 & 3, The Standards Real Book, The European Real Book and others. He is currently at work writing a book in vocal accompanying. At home in jazz, classical and popular styles of music, Larry Dunlap brings a wide range of talents and a unique perspective to each of his musical undertakings. 

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