Ann Collins
Performing Monday, November 12, 8pm, $5 cover
ANN COLLINS, Western Illinois University professor emeritus, maintains a busy schedule as a clinician at conventions and colleges throughout the country and as an instructor of jazz piano clinics for piano teachers. She has appeared at MENC, IAJE and MTNA National Conventions, the National Group Piano Symposium, the National Piano Pedagogy Conference, and as faculty for International Association of Jazz Educators Teacher-Training Institutes, as well as numerous state convention programs and university seminars.
Her newest publication "Jazz Works", includes play-along CDs and GM Disks (Alfred) and is designed to help bridge the gap between traditional piano study and jazz instruction. She is devoting her retirement years to playing jazz, writing jazz piano texts, and helping piano teachers learn to teach jazz.
She will be accompanied by Dave Rogers at the drums and Joe Vick on bass.
The Monday Jazz Project at the AfterThought is sponsored by the Arkansas Jazz Heritage Foundation, the AfterThought and Capitol Keyboard.