Steve Torok

In this interactive clinic, Downbeat award winning director and SoCal professional arranger Steve Torok, along with the MiraCosta Jazz Collective, demonstrate simple approaches for using lead sheets and stock combo arrangements as the basis for creating unique and interesting “re-arrangements.” The simple techniques discussed require very little knowledge of jazz theory or arranging and should be of interest to all directors that must contend with smaller ensembles and variable instrumentation.