EPISODE · Jun 1, 2024 · 1H 22M

James McGowan: Musical Fusion

from Conversations with Musicians, with Leah Roseman

This week’s featured guest is James McGowan, a solo and collaborative pianist at home in jazz, classical and improvised musics. The 14-member James McGowan Ensemble has just released its jazz-classical fusion album Reaching Out, the companion to the previous album Reaching In, and this episode features some of the music from this beautiful project as well as from his jazz-fusion group Modasaurus. Besides James’ work as a composer and pianist, he’s also a Theory Professor, and choral direcctor, and has served as Carleton University Chair in Teaching Innovation in developing experiences in the arts on campus and in the community. James is so passionate about sharing his love of music and I trust you’ll find this an uplifting conversation. Besides my role as a podcaster, I’m a violinist, and last year I founded an improvising chamber group with James, Collected Strands, and we’ll soon be releasing a special podcast episode to celebrate the release of our upcoming album. Can you buy this independenat podcaster a coffee? https://ko-fi.com/leahroseman Thanks! You can also watch this on YouTube or read the podcast, everything linked here to my website: https://www.leahroseman.com/episodes/james-mcgowan James McGowan website for all the music featured in this podcast, and his current projects: https://jamesmcgowan.ca/ photo: Kelly McDonald Timestamps (00:00) Intro (02:32) Modasaurus jazz ensemble, 4K album, fusing styles (05:13) clip from Chaconne and Fugue 4K Modasaurus (06:41) background and clip of Crazy Ceilidh (09:27) music career advice (11:42) Reaching Out and Reaching In, tribute to Chick Corea (16:43) clip from Corean Poultry on Reaching Out (18:05) intro and clip from Blue Lament, from Reaching Out (21:10) intro and Elegy from Reaching Out (26:44) James’ grad school experience, switching from Composition to Theory (29:31) please spread the word about this podcast! (30:08) musical dialects, code switching, overtone series (39:59) teaching music theory (43:05) Reaching In, spoken word and different art forms (46:56) Acceptance from Reaching In (50:50) parenting and music, encouraging children in the Arts (56:36) dealing with emotions through music (59:00) voluteer work Discovery Course for Ottawa Mission and Lotus Center (01:03:27) teaching musicianship, singing, community music (01:10) dealing with playing injuries, music education, voice and choral direction (01:18:26) improvisation, Collected Strands

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