BertLIGONis available for Clinics & Workshops. Invite him to work with your young improvisers and ensembles.
Ligon has experience teaching all levels of improvisation. He has taught at Suzuki Institutes including the International Conference, taught at Mark O’Connor Fiddle conferences, Christian Howes’ Creative Strings Workshops. UofSC and ColaJazz host the USC ColaJazzsummer camps.
“There is no abstract art. You must start with something.”
—Pablo Picasso
“Teachers open the door,, but you must enter by yourself”
—Chinese Proverb
“We start out playing by ear, learning everything we can, and finally end up playing by ear again.”
—Lee Konitz
“Jazz in not just, ‘well this is what I feel like playing.’ It’s a very structured thins that comes down from a tradition and requires a lot of thought and study.”