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Craig Fraedrich, director 

Craig Fraedrich, trumpet soloist with the Army Blues, directs this laboratory group in an exploration of jazz improvisation techniques. The ensemble enables the students to focus primarily on improvisation, emphasizing jazz theory fundamentals, playing coherent phrases, "making the changes" with eighth note lines, modal and tonal improvisation, and many other concepts. This group exists in a classroom setting, but is a performing ensemble. One credit.