Nashville Jazz Workshop Approach: Form

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Decades into running a successful education institution, accomplished pianist Lori Mechem sees the top hot topics that students struggle with. Take advantage of her spot on training on these topics in the first of three workshop on Form, Groove and Melody. A respected jazz pianist, composer and educator, Lori, along with her husband Roger Spencer, has been living in the Nashville area since 1988. In addition to directing production shows and conducting musical theater, she has performed with artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Red Holloway, Jimmy Smith, Cal Collins, Roy McCurdy, Terry Gibbs, Pete Christlieb, Ed Thigpen, Houston Person, Kevin Mahogany, Everett Greene, Kirk Whalum, Anthony Wilson, Oscar Castro Neves, Bobby Millitello, Marvin Stamm, Ann Jillian, Edie Gorme and the McGuire Sisters. A native of Anderson Indiana, Lori received a Bachelor of Music in Jazz Studies from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. Lori’s CD “Welcome to Brazil” was nominated for “Best Jazz Album of the Year” by the Nashville Music Awards in 1997. Lori and her husband Roger are the founders and she is currently the Director of Education of Nashville’s first jazz school, The Nashville Jazz Workshop.