Charlie Banacos

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Charlie Banacos (born August 11, 1946 in Lowell (Massachusetts) , † December 8, 2009 ) was an American jazz pianist who has emerged primarily as a music teacher and author of correspondence courses.

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Banacos grew up in Dracut and initially played as a musician with Jerry Bergonzi and Harvie Swartz . He received his musical training from Jaki Byard , Lennie Tristano and Margaret Chaloff. He graduated from Lowell State Teachers University in 1968. He later appeared with Roy Haynes , Teddy Kotick and Charlie Mariano , and with Miles Donahue . His composition Pelaghia was performed at Carnegie Hall . Since the late 1960s, he has developed more than 100 study courses for improvisers and composers . He wrote courses such as “Hexatonics”, “Intervallics”, “Superimpositions”, “Overlaps” or “Double Mambos”, which have entered the American canon of jazz pedagogy. Banacos placed particular emphasis on ear training .

Banacos was initially employed at Berklee College of Music . He taught at the New England Conservatory of Music between 1988 and 2009 , but was also a faculty member at the Longy School of Music . Musicians like Mike and Leni Stern , Bill Frisell , Michael Brecker , Joey Calderazzo , Danilo Pérez , Jeff Berlin , Alain Caron , Kenny Werner , George Garzone , Bill Pierce , Marilyn Crispell , Rachel Z and Pat Metheny are among his students. The methods he developed found their way into textbooks and the training of other educational institutions such as the Manhattan School of Music , the Thelonious Monk Institute and the New School .

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  • Charlie Banacos: Pentatonic Scale Improvisation . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.
  • Charlie Banacos: Tonal Paralypsis: Book 1 . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.
  • Charlie Banacos: Tonal Paralypsis: Book 2 . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.
  • Charlie Banacos: Voicings in Clusters . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.
  • Charlie Banacos: Voicings in 5ths . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.
  • Charlie Banacos: Voicings in 4ths . Banacos, Boston, MA 1972.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Harmonics of Intensive Care: Charlie Banacos, RIP . In: The Daily Kos . December 9, 2009. Retrieved December 9, 2009.
  2. ↑ a b c Charlie Banacos: Recollections of a Legend (AllAboutJazz)
  3. ^ Longy School faculty
  4. ^ Leni Stern Composing and Compositions CCP Belwin, 1995 and John Novello The Contemporary Keyboardist. Milwaukee: Hal Leonard Corporation, 1986 and Frank Singer Theory Den , 2002.
  5. ↑ a b Obituary (New England Conservatory)
personal data
SURNAME Banacos, Charlie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician and music teacher
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Lowell, Massachusetts
DATE OF DEATH December 8, 2009