Musicianship and the Spiritual Path: July 19
July 19, 9 to noon and 2 to 5pm at the Toledo Zen Center
This workshop will explore the path of the musician and the practice of Zen. It is open to anyone, and will be lead by Rinsen who teaches Jazz at UT and Kyomon, an acclaimed percussionist from New York. Bring your instruments!
Fee: $50
To register for this event, please send an email to: info@ToledoZen.org with the event title and your contact information.
John Kyomon Wieczorek has studied contemporary, ethnic and electronic
percussion improvisation and Zen for the last 30 years. He has had the good
fortune to have performed with bassists Gary Peacock, Mark Dresser and
Mark Deutsch, bansuri flutist Steve Gorn, frame drum virtuosos Glen
Velez and Layne Redmond, as well as saxophonists Joe McPhee, David
Rothenberg, and trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr. at venues in Europe and
North and South America.
Jay Christopher Weik (Chikyo Rinsen) is an American Aikido Sensei, a Jazz musician and educator, and co-founder of both the Toledo Zen Center and the Drinking Gourd Dharma Circle.
In 1977 Jay began studying the guitar, and in 1987 he won the Jim Hall Jazz Masters Award and relocated to Boston. After graduating from Berklee College of Music in 1990, he went on to earn a Masters Degree with academic honors in Jazz Studies from the New England Conservatory in 1992, and has studied extensively with Jerry Bergonzi, Mick Goodrick and Charlie Banacos. He was a Boston based studio guitarist and worked with producer Miguel Pessoa. Jay has taught music at several New England area colleges, as well as having a full private guitar lesson studio. He is the internationally published author of two Mel Bay Books ‘Daily Dexterity Studies for the Guitarist‘ and ‘Daily Sight Reading Studies for the Guitarist.” He is a recording artist and composer, is featured on “One Way Ticket” on the Dharma Communications label, and has concertized with Jazz legends Gary Peacock, John Hendricks, and Gunnar Mossblad. In 2006 he began teaching Jazz Guitar at the University of Toledo, and in 2007 he performed and recorded John Coltrane’s opus”A Love Supreme” with John Hendricks and the University of Toledo Jazz Faculty, and this performance recieved positive review by noted Jazz scholar and critic Ashley Kahn. He also plays the Shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute) which he has studied with Michael Chikuzen Gould Sensei. He performs with the Toledo Jazz Orchestra, and is a frequent highlight at Murphys Jazz Club in downtown Toledo.
