Joseph Vincelli

Reflections, Portraits DVD (2004)

Joseph Vincelli — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 11:30:36 +0000

Reflections-

Originally recorded on THIS LIFE CD, Reflections is a multi-media video found on the DVD (2004). The photo images and quotes represented here are excerpts from Joseph’s book, The Art of Tone, Understanding Our Love For Music.

To order the digital CD, click the CD icon or for the DVD, go to www.cdbaby.com. You can always purchase any of the products by contacting us directly at (214)906-1059.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dlc385nnrx0

The Invitation, Portraits DVD (2004)

Joseph Vincelli — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 10:50:03 +0000

The Invitation-

Before the 2011 CD was released, a live version of the single was added as a bonus track to the 2004 DVD release. This version is different than the 2011 CD release adding a different sexiness to it.

BUY NOW!! and order the entire CD with the featured titled track, The Invitation (2011)

OR you can find this video on the 2004 DVD release, Portraits of Joseph Vincelli. The DVD is available online at www.cdbaby.com or through NiteBeat Productions by calling 214-906-1059.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcM-pPTDm-4

All of these videos are available on the 2004 DVD release, Portraits of Joseph Vincelli

Joseph Vincelli — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:13:15 +0000

This video is a compilation DVD with over 90 minutes of videos featuring Joseph’s original contemporary jazz, as well as eclectic acoustic jazz.

Click the DVD icon to purchase or call NiteBeat Productions @ (214)906-1059

Songlist (To view any of the highlighted videos, just click the song below):

Arrival

Always Ready

Sweet Persuasion

Hills of San Pietro

Wine of the Cellos

The Invitation

Stop Six (White Sands, New Mexico version)

Right Beside Me

Where To Now?

Dancing In Kenya

Flowers

Portraits

Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise

Hello Again

Reflections

Passages

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DBaEVzAMwi8

Music Workshop Descriptions

Joseph Vincelli — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 19:05:04 +0000

Music Workshop Descriptions:

In general, the workshops range from 40 – 50 minutes, sometimes less for the younger grades. However, Joseph has performed some classes for 90 minutes. He will adhere to the teachers’ needs or requests and extend classes where it’s needed.

Kindergarten – 4th Grade: When presenting to the youngest of elementary students, Joseph has requested to set the stage as a general assembly (usually in some type of multi-purpose room) with the students sitting in a circle around Joseph and a table of several different instruments. Since he plays the woodwinds, flutes and saxes are displayed and they include flutes from all around the world. He demonstrates the various flutes and the styles that are appropriate to the instrument’s country origin.

On many occasions, Joseph has performed with a jazz pianist where they demonstrate improvisation. They ask the students to pick a key (by choosing a letter from A – G) and pick a genre of music (by giving them 3 choices to choose from). From their suggestions the musicians make up a song right then and there. It is a very effective exercise for the students to see how music is created.

Middle School Students: As a past teacher, Joseph knows that these grades are difficult in holding their attention. Even though he uses improvisation exercises similar to the younger students, he spends ample time teaching them how to identify their individual talents and weaknesses, not in music, but as a person. He does this so that the students learn how to focus on the right things to practice in order to achieve their goals.

As well, he spends time on goal setting, time management, and learning how to identify individual interests. He talks about his school experiences and what dedication it took in order for him to become fluent with music so that it brought a high level of enjoyment.

Of course, he performs so that the students see his strong passion for music (especially improvised music).

Joseph taking a listen of a sax solo

from “The Invitation” recordings (2011)

High School Students: Joseph has created many opportunities to speak to high school students, presenting his musical ideas and philosophies on dedication. Joseph’s story is compelling as he discusses that his passion for music was strong as a young high-schooler, but his nerves would get the best of him. He talks about his dedication to practice, learning what to practice and learning about himself along the way – playing to his strengths and avoiding his weeknesses. His result was first chair in all of the bands that he competed in, including All-State Band.

Aside from his playing, that speaks for itself, he approaches his study in a very systematic way, similar to what he learned from Chick Corea and Wynton Marsalis. He has learned how to manage his time and (ultimately as an adult) his money. These are things that students of interest will appreciate and want to hear as they approach college and adulthood, especially from someone who is succesful within their own field or any other field for that matter.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgOF_s0uIS0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlaiglPoJ1g

“>Jazz Bands: As a jazz artist himself, teaching and performing with jazz students is a natural. Aside from stressing dynamics and big band techniques, he spends ample time on improvisation because this where the student is no longer just “playing in the group”, but having an opportunity to create something new altogether. He is a big advocate of learning how to “let go“ through creativity. In the jazz band, that is improvisation.

Concert Bands: One of Joseph’s favorite ways of teaching (and his most effective) is literally taking over the classrom as “teacher-for-the-day”. In the shortest of times, Joseph will bring out the best of students in a performance platform once he has heard them play. He teaches them sectional balance, how to listen to each other, dynamics, the role of the instrument in the band and of course, he spends time explaining the importance of scales which any teacher will applaud.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRo2N3aT1uw

“>Portraits of Joseph Vincelli DVD (2004)

Music Webinars (web-based seminars)

Joseph Vincelli — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 08:40:28 +0000

Joseph and his musical teaching partner, composer/pianist, Joel MCray

Philosophy Behind the Webinars- Over the years Joseph has performed many workshops and music clinics sharing his experiences as a recording artist and touring professional with students. However, recently he has accelerated these programs. While fine arts’ budgets are getting slashed, students are being exposed to less and less music losing an appreciation for its place in culture. Therefore, he sees the need for the professional community to step up.

Students need to see how music is created and interpreted by the professional performers and arrangers. Unless students are exposed to how sound media is created, they will have difficulty in the arena of making music. The more on-hand experience young people have with professionals, the more the art form will continue in a positive direction.

Joseph, also, feels that technological stimulus is good, but it is currently saturating our world. Digital technology is so much a part of everyday life (with the constant use of smart phones, HDTV’s and the Internet) that young people are finding it difficult to grasp music’s origin. However, technology can enhance the progression of music’s direction by broadcasting ideas to the masses and that is where the webinars come into play.

Joseph and Joel having some fun in the studio

College tuitions have gotten astronomical and many peforming musicians need the education, not just a degree. This subscription-based webinar program allows a student of any age to gain a lot of knowledge while saving money.

In addition, schools, whether private or public, are losing funding in a dramatic way. This program will give teachers and students an economical way to further their music education. It can even be custom built for individual classrooms and be based on the level of student sophistication at hand.

Joseph and Joel analyzing some chord progressions during a studio session.

How the Webinars Work- Webinars is a great tool in providing information to the masses, but the main thing that makes them powerful is the uniqueness of the people and their presentations.

Joel and Joseph share similar capabilities and work very well together - both have taught, both song write, both produce, both arrange, both are their own artist. They bring many similarities to the table and yet they are different enough to challenge each other to set the intensity of their music to a higher level. Also, the approach that they portray while presenting is quite unique.

“Watching the Ivory Tower Topple”

New online courses open to all constitute a thrilling collegiate coup

[By HOLLY FINN, Wall Street Journal (March 23, 2012)]

Turn down the Rihanna. No more bikinis and beer. Spring break is winding down, and college students are heading back to campus—which, if they’re at a name-brand school, is the one place, whatever their actual smarts or behavior, that guarantees them approval. Kids don’t put Harvard stickers on their rear windshields, parents do.

But for how long? These schools have much to recommend them: impressive students, organic dining halls, presidential alumni. To maintain their reputations, however, elite colleges have long relied on limiting access—Harvard’s class of 2015 is about 1,700 students, Yale’s is 1,300—and that may be coming to an end. Revolutionaries outside the ivy walls are hammering their way not onto campus but straight into class.

Elite schools have long relied on limiting access—but for how long?

It’s a thrilling collegiate coup. Last fall, a couple of hundred Stanford students registered for Sebastian Thrun’s class on artificial intelligence. He offered the course free online, too, through his new company Udacity, and 160,000 students signed up. For the written assignments and exams, both groups got identical questions—and 210 students got a perfect overall score. They all came from the online group.

So if you bluffed your way into the Ivy League with plumped-up credentials or an essay edited by somebody else, it’s time to start breaking a sweat.

“I like to compare it to film,” Mr. Thrun told me at a coffee shop between Stanford and Mountain View, Calif., where his day job is running Google X, the company’s experimental lab. “Before film there was theater—small casting companies reaching 300 people at a time. Then celluloid was invented, and you could record something and replicate it. A good movie wouldn’t reach 300 but 3,000, and soon 300,000 and soon three million. That changed the economics.”It is education’s time to change now. At the high-school level, interactive study sites are increasingly ingenious: Look at Piazza, Blackboard and Quizlet, founded by a 17-year-old. TED-Ed just launched a channel on You Tube, with three- to 10-minute lessons for kids. YouTube’s EDU Portal has been viewed 22 billion times. Khan Academy, a favorite of Bill Gates, has four million unique users a month and thousands of educational videos, from “Napoleon’s Peninsular Campaigns” to “Python Lists.” If you think that last one is about snakes, please download Khan’s new iPad app immediately.The next big thing, though, is college-level MOOCs and MOOSes: Massive Open Online Courses and Seminars. Harvard already showcases coursework like professor Michael Sandel’s “Justice” lectures online, gratis. Now Georgia Institute of Technology, MIT, Stanford and others are offering advanced online courses, some with accreditation.”The current search for new educational funnels must be reversed,” wrote Austrian philosopher Ivan Illich, in “Deschooling Society.” He called for “educational webs” woven among us all. That was 1971. Today, Web courses don’t just meet but beat their impersonal offline counterparts. Studies show that tutorial-style teaching is more effective than lecturing (as Oxford and Cambridge have known for centuries), even when prerecorded. Mr. Thrun’s online students told him that the course felt more personal.

In this new educational model, the shy and the easily distracted get advantages. You can rewind a video and watch whenever and as many times as you like. Plus, teachers save time with computerized grading and students save money. (U.S. college debt, nearly $1 trillion, is bigger than housing or credit card debt.)

Most important, the system promotes driven and talented students who might otherwise be denied access to higher education: a kid in Afghanistan, a young mother in Scotland, an ignored pupil in Detroit. From Mr. Thrun’s class (translated into 44 languages) Udacity chose 200 students based purely on performance and, a few weeks ago, forwarded their resumes to companies including Amazon, Bank of America and BMW.

There are glitches, of course, including a high online dropout rate, complaints about speed, questions on accreditation and the predictable whining from old-school alumni who have gotten too cozy in their club chairs.

To be truly egalitarian, classes will need to go not just online but mobile. Still, the upshot of it all is clear: more smart people is better. Just watch that ivory tower topple.

httpv://youtu.be/-kca9v1kUAc

Arrival, Portraits of Joseph Vincelli, DVD (2004)

Joseph Vincelli — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 23:19:29 +0000

Arrival-

While written on a plane when touring, this song was titled after its initial inception on the plane…a Vincelli listener favorite, “Arrival” keeps you up and dancing. Here is the live version for you to see on the DVD Portraits (2004).

Also available digitally in CD format on, This Life (2001) and (the live version) Touche (2006) (click the CD icon here) or go to www.cdbaby.com, ITunes, & Amazon.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XI-jfETVAJw

The Invitation (2011)

Joseph Vincelli — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:56:55 +0000

CLICK THE HIGHLIGHTED SONGS!! to listen to the hit title track, The Invitation, from Joseph’s newest CD release, his first studio CD album in years. Brand new contemporary jazz songs collaborated with pianist, Joel McCray. A combination of some very funky tunes and some sweet ballads. YOU WILL WANT TO ADD THIS ONE TO YOUR COLLECTION!!! The Title track climbed the jazz charts to #32!!

This CD is available digitally or in CD form @ www.cdbaby.com, ITunes, and Amazon or you can purchase it by calling us @ 214-906-1059 for details…

Songlist includes: Shout Out, Some Other Time, Jewel of The City (click the link to hear this selection), The Invitation, Where To Now?, I Owe You All of Me, In Season, Amazing Grace & Funky Shout!

CD REVIEW: http://www.thesmoothjazzride.com/site/ (June/2011)

Smooth and subtle. Those just might be the most defining words I’d use to describe this latest effort by veteran saxophonist Joseph Vincelli, The Invitation. Honestly, nothing here is super funky (well, there is the nicely grooved finale). Nothing may rattle you to the bone, but, in listening, you ask yourself: Does it always have to be that way? This is solid contemporary jazz played by an artist who has known the music for 17 years, written a book about music, and regularly teaches music classes. I think he might have a feel for the art form. Wouldn’t you?

Here are nine nicely done tracks, including a truly noteworthy and innovative interpretation of “Amazing Grace,” complete with some well-placed scatting by keyboardist/vocalist Joel McCray, a bright addition to this project, overall.

Vincelli’s skills on sax are sharp and tight with telltale jazz runs that add the “moments” to this album that help it to be what it obviously strives to be: Quite noticeable.

Factors that help to break the monotony of any album, in my opinion, are direction, originality, melody, and some great hooks. In addition to the great interpretation of “Amazing Grace,” tracks like “Jewel of the City,” the title track, “Where To Now?,” and “In Season” do that for this CD.

No, not every album breaks the mold or sets the world on fire, although I certainly look for that a lot. Still, there are projects that are just good, solid, professional mood-setters. The Invitation is one such
album. – Ronald Jackson

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xcM-pPTDm-4

Music Workshop Credentials

Joseph Vincelli — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:46:36 +0000

Recommendations, Videos,

Photos & Credentials: After Berklee College of Music, JosephVincelli started his career by teaching at several different schools, which included creating a curriculum for a preparatory school before leaving the position to go perform as a studio musician in Hollywood, CA.

Over the years Joseph has performed many workshops and music clinics, but recently has accelerated his effort to share his experience as a touring professional with students. As fine arts’ budgets continue to diminish, schools are placing less significance on its purpose in society. Therefore, he sees the need for the professionals to step up to the plate and expose students to more than what they are currently learning.

In addition, Joseph feels that digital technology is so advanced in our current world that, unless students are exposed to the creation of sound media through instruments, they will have difficulty in understanding from where musical sound originates. For this reason, there is a real need for experienced musicians, like himself, to spend more time musically with young people . Therefore, he is making a conscious effort to incorporate visits to schools at all levels by adding it to his tour schedule.

Joseph has also written a profound book on music’s importance in our lives entitled, “The Art of Tone, Understanding Our Love For Music“. Many of his philosophies in his teachings stem from his understanding and research he did during the book’s 15 year project timeline. (You will find some testimonials here on the back of the book. Art of Tone Book Cover)

Letters Of Recommendation:

“Vincelli ignites passion and sparks interest

in students (when he teachs and performs)”.

– Lisa Richardson

Letter of Recommendation – Dallas Mavericks Head Coach

Letter of Recommendation – Salina, Kansas Arts & Humanities Commission

Seminar & Assembly Photos:

Joseph Vincelli & Dallas Mavericks Coach, Rick Carlisle, performing a general assembly

Joseph Vincelli explaining the importance of music and self-expression to students.

Article Links: Hockaday School Article (Park Cities People, Dec./2011) Vincelli said the joy he finds in performing, and the ease with which he plays flute and saxophone, are the rewards for his hard work. “Playing music has not always been easy,” he said. “I have given up fun things to practice.”

Dallas Morning News Article (Dallas Morning News, Nov./2011) “Vincelli conducts workshops (like this one) across the country…”

Participating Schools & Residencies: List of Music Workshops & Residencies

Video Links:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlaiglPoJ1g

Professional Jazz Musician, Joseph Vincelli, spent 2 days doing workshops in Salina, KS with the 4 Jazz bands from the USD 305 School District. The culmination of this visit was a performance at The Stiefel Theatre with The Lakewood Middle School and Central H.S. Jazz Bands. This is Lakewood band, with Vincelli, performing, “Summertime.” Featured soloists, in addition to Vincelli, are Jack Weiner, Jack Shetlar, and Ben Koenig.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZgOF_s0uIS0

Joseph Vincelli performing with the The Lakewood Central High School Jazz Band at the Smoky Hill River Festival (on Thursday, the festival’s day to feature local talent)

Cocktail Mix (2009)

Joseph Vincelli — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 16:20:06 +0000

This live CD is punchy and features a killer band with Joseph on sax and flute, backed up by pianist, Tyrone Smith, bassist, Rick Rigsby, and drummer, Danielle “Pocket” Brown.

The Cocktail Mix songlist includes Joseph’s originals, We’ve Got Time & NiteBeat. Additionally are the cocktail cover favorites, Sunny (click the link to hear this selection), Mo’ Better Blues, Killing Me Softly, and That’s The Way of The World

Only available digitally!! You can purchase this CD music through ITunes, Amazon, or www.cdbaby.com or contact NiteBeat Productions directly at (214)906-1059.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqR9nfBfg14

The Hills of San Pietro, Touch (1998)

Joseph Vincelli — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 14:03:49 +0000

The Hills of San Pietro-

Originally from the TOUCH CD (1998), this is a live version of Joseph’s song written for his family’s Italian heritage from the village of Santo Pietro D’ Apostolo, a mountain nestled in the hills of Southern Calabria, Italy.

The DVD has over 90 minutes of videos featuring Joseph’s original contemporary jazz, as well as eclectic acoustic jazz.

The music is only available digitally. It can be found on ITunes, Amazon and www.cdbaby.com or contact us directly at (214)906-1059.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9qrhekBhQE