Tad Weed, Music Business Workshop

Pianist and arranger extraordinaire Tad WeedPianist and arranger extraordinaire Tad Weed
Friday, March 23, 2018 - 10:00

 

Friday, March 23, 10:00 am

Tad Weed, Musicians’ Workshop

SoCA Armouries, Performance Hall
37 University Ave, East

Mr.. Weed’s workshop will consist of discussing different areas of the music business.
1. The business of music and how to make a living doing it.
2. Harmonic study and how it helps with learning to improvise.
3. The importance of learning music composition.

Tad Weed at the pianoArtist Tad Weed is active as a piano soloist, collaborative artist, lecturer, arranger and teacher.  He studied classical piano repertoire and composition at Central Michigan University before migrating to Los Angeles. Tad’s studies culminated in a Bachelor and Masters degree in Piano Performance and Jazz Studies from the Grove School of Music.
 
Tad’s discography contains over 50 records and CD’s which feature his playing as well as his arrangements and compositions.
 
His performing experience includes international touring as a pianist/music director for Carmen McRae, Anita O’Day, Paul Anka and Jack Jones and also recorded with various artists such as Chaka Khan, John Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, Betty Carter, Dick Berk, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Morgan and David Fathead Newman..  He has collaborated with a number of various ensembles including Peter Soave, Charles Lloyd, Nick Brignola, Woody Herman, Mundell Lowe, John Patitucci, Vinny Golia, Ritchie Cole, Teddy Edwards, Dick Berk, Dave Bennett and the New York Pops Orchestra at Carnegie Hall and performed Astor Piazzolla tangos with the Cleveland Pops Orchestra.
 
Tad was on staff at Discovery Records of Los Angeles. In addition to recording and arranging, he was an accompanist and performer with many artists including Chaka Khan, Al Cohn, Kenny Burell, John Clayton, Bill Waltrous, Shorty Rogers, Jerome Richardson, Bud Shank, Stanley Turrentine, Wycliffe Gordon, John Carter, Bobby Bradford, Betty Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Frank Morgan, David “Fathead” Newman, and many others.
 
Tad is an associate professor of Jazz Piano at the University of Toledo.  He has also served as Adjunct Professor on the music faculties of University of Michigan, Bowling Green State University, Western Michigan University, University of Windsor and University of Oakland.  He continues to teach and conduct jazz/composition clinics, including student summer clinics as well as performing and arranging for his groups, The Freedom Ensemble and Dobbins, Krahnke and Weed, a piano trio group.

 

 

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