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Miles Griffith Jazz Vocal Workshop

Vocalist, Educator, Composer, Lyricist and Leader Miles Griffith has been a professional Jazz Artist since 1986. A member of ensembles led by the Boys Choir Of Harlem, Jon Hendricks, Max Roach, James Williams, Reggie Workman, Bill Lee, Jimmy Heath, T.S. Monk and Jack Walrath's Masters of Suspense. Griffith is a Pulitzer Prize and Grammy Award Winner performing with Wynton Marsalis' Jazz Oratorio CD "Blood on the Fields", pioneered the Vocal Jazz Program at Columbia University from 2005-2008, and has 7 CDs out under his record label, Griffith Records. He has worked with countless artists, has made several international recordings and tours, commercials, children's videos and continues to travel and grace stages all over the world. Village Voice critic Jim Macnie states, "The vocalist has a wail that's able to shake a room, a visceral blues sensibility, and gregarious sense of humor."

Workshop details:

One (1) day workshop lasting three hours per day, with a 20 minute break, would consist of:

Vocal warm-up techniques
Breathing techniques
Diction
Vocal improvisation
Ballad singing
Up and medium tempo grooves
communicating to your rhythm section