Carl Stormer's JazzCode

Article about the JazzCode and Rob Scheps in the "Oregonian"

Last Friday the Oregonian ran a piece on Rob Scheps and the JazzCode.  Rob is one of my all time favorite sax players and in the last six months, we have recorded four albums together in New York and Oslo.  Here is the article:
 

IN MUSIC, LIKE LIFE, CONTEXT IS EVERYTHING -- To improvise effectively in a jazz group, you have to know what to do and when to do it. As the situation unfolds, you must act decisively while keeping open your options for the next move.

Cameron Brown, Carl Stormer, Rob Scheps, Georg “Jojje” Wadenius, and Jamie Reynolds at Rainbow Studios in Oslo while recording “In the Moment”

That makes a pretty good life strategy as well, and such spontaneous teamwork might be a useful tactic for business.

It's the essence of jazz, anyway, and its lesson applies to many endeavors: Context is everything.

Here's how it works for Rob Scheps.

JazzCode going international

A few days ago (and thank to one of their professors, Morten Hansen, who saw the JazzCode in Barcelona),  I got an engagement with the executive program at Insead in Paris.  I will be doing two JazzCode performances for their executive program in February.  If they like it, who knows what can happen.  I have hired some really great Paris based musicians, Laurent Coq, piano, Rick Margitza (sax) and Gilles Naturel (bass).  They are all top notch players, and on our first gig we will be playing for a distinguished group of alumni.

Laurent Coq, piano

Rick Margitza, sax

Rick Margitza on YouTube.