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Introducing Jazz House Kids All-Stars
by Sanford Josephson
Bassist Laura Simone-Martin of Lawrenceville, NJ, is heading back to Carnegie Hall's NYO Jazz Program for the second consecutive year. “Last year," she said, “gave me that first-hand experience of what it is like being on the road for so long and how much energy goes into it." On Saturday night, June 3, Simone-Martin appeared as part of the Jazz House Kids All-Star sextet at Newark's Bethany Baptist Church Jazz Vespers, soloing on Dizzy Gillespie's “Con Alma." She ...
Continue ReadingJazz House Kids: The House that Jazz Built
by Bob Kenselaar
When we think of jazz education, we might first think about what's developed at the college level and at music conservatories over the last fifty years or so, and then maybe consider how jazz instruction and jazz bands have flourished at the high school and middle school levels a little more recently. But beyond these settings, jazz education has advanced thanks to a select number of other, smaller, independent organizations that have had a strong impact on their local communities. ...
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