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mDecks Music Launches Groundbreaking Jazz Standards Book Series Featuring Over 1,500 Fully Analyzed Tunes

Source: Ariel Ramos
February 9, 2025

mDecks Music, a leader in innovative music education resources, has released a groundbreaking new book series dedicated to mastering jazz standards. This comprehensive collection provides musicians with essential tools to enhance their improvisation, harmonic understanding, and melodic development—featuring over 1,500 jazz standards fully analyzed. The series, now available at mDecks.com, includes: The Jazz Standards Progressions Book Explore the harmonic structure of jazz standards with fully analyzed chord progressions, chord-scales & arrows & brackets analysis.
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Florian Ross Octet: Tunes & Explorations

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
October 20, 2022

I love jazz octets. More than any other ensemble configuration, an octet shows off an arranger's stuff. Unlike a big band, an octet is fully exposed, with individual instruments coming and going rather than full sections broken into chords. In many ways, octets are little big bands—the skeletal version. As a listener, you get to hear the busy shifts of a chart more vividly than a big band's brass and horn sections. Because they're exposed, octet arrangements either sound great ...
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Entrepreneurship In Music: Mideast Tunes

Source: HypeBot
August 12, 2016

Here Mideast Tunes founder and civil rights activist Esra'a Al-Shafei discusses her new music streaming platform and its goal of promoting social change as well as the work of underground artists from the Middle East and North Africa. Guest Post by Jeremy Young on Soundfly's Flypaper “We want our humanity and our futures in our own hands and we use the internet and other forms of technology to fight for those rights." — Esra’a Al-Shafei Mideast Tunes is a music streaming platform promoting social ...
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Join NEC’s Hankus Netsky And Eden Macadam Somer For An Evening Of Yiddish And Hassidic Song And Klezmer Dance Tunes, January 20 At The Burren, Somerville

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
January 7, 2016

Join two of the world's most renowned, dynamic, and original Jewish music performers—NEC’s Contemporary Improvisation department chair Hankus Netsky and co-chair Eden MacAdam Somer—for an evening of Yiddish and Hassidic song and klezmer dance tunes, on Wednesday, January 20 at The Burren, 247 Elm Street, Somerville. Show from 7:30-9:00 p.m. Tickets are $20. A multi-instrumentalist, composer, and ethnomusicologist, Hankus Netsky is founder and director of the Klezmer Conservatory Band. He has composed extensively for film, theater, and television, and has ...
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Music Education Monday: Standard tunes every jazz musician should know

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
August 4, 2015

If you spend any time at all around jazz as either a musician or a listener, it won't be long before you read something or hear someone discussing “jazz standards" or just “standards." Which in turn may prompt one to ask, what is a standard, and why are they important? Simply put, a “standard" is a composition that gets played, recorded and/or requested frequently enough that professional musicians are expected to know it, preferably by memory. A standard may have ...
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MoonJune Records Sampler: 75 Tunes, Nearly 8 Hours Of Music For Only $5

Source: MoonJune Records
June 25, 2015

Progressive Music Exploring Boundaries Of Jazz, Rock, Ethno, Avant & The Unknown 75 tunes from 75 albums on MoonJune Records High-quality download in FLAC or/and MP3-320. A $10 contribution gives you an extra bonus album-download of your choice. A $15 contribution gives you an extra two bonus album-downloads of your choice. A $20 contribution gives you an extra three bonus album-downloads of your choice. “The entire Moonjune catalogue is crammed with goodies: exceptional albums by both established and upcoming musicians. It's agenda? To stoke the ...
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Spotlighting Obscure Tunes with Toe-Tapping Swing

Source: Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
November 11, 2014

Pianist Johnny Varro seems most at home in obscure jazz material—not only 50 or more years old, but in some cases, obscure even when it was first performed. Such was the case with more than half of the compositions he presented Monday night, November 11, with the Florida edition of his Swing 7 band at the Charlotte County Jazz Society concert series. Sure, there were a couple of Duke Ellington staples ("What am I Here For?" and “"Black and Fantasy"), ...
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Culbertson Tunes Up The Pinot

Source: Great Scott P.R.oductions
February 28, 2014

Contemporary jazz hitmaker releases his own wine that he blended in partnership with Reata Wines and Jamieson Ranch Vineyards. Los Angeles, Calif. (27 February 2014): Chart-topping musician, producer, songwriter, wine and jazz festival founder and artistic director Brian Culbertson can add vintner to his burgeoning resume. The recording artist behind 26 No. 1 hits and the star-studded Napa Valley Jazz Getaway is now pouring his new custom-crafted wine, “Culbertson” Pinot Noir by Reata Wines, which he personally blended with Jamieson ...
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Enter the "Branford Marsalis - Four MFs Playin' Tunes" Giveaway at All About Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
August 4, 2012

All About Jazz members are invited to enter the Marsalis Music “Branford Marsalis - Four MFs Playin' Tunes“ giveaway contest starting today. We'll select FIVE winners at the conclusion of the contest on September 3rd. Click here to enter the contest

(Following Branford Marsalis at AAJ automatically enters you in the contest.)

Good luck! Your Friends at Marsalis Music About Four MFs Playin' Tunes Legendary saxophonist Branford Marsalis and his tight-knit working band invite audiences into ...
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SFJazz Collective returns to Stevie Wonder tunes this weekend at Yoshi's-Oakland

Source: Michael Ricci
March 28, 2012

Growing up in Auckland, New Zealand, bassist Matt Penman played with a rock band called The Itch, covering tunes by the Red Hot Chili Peppers and Stevie Wonder. The group enjoyed jamming out on Wonder's reggae-ish “Master Blaster (Jammin')," recalls Penman, who was 16 at the time. He also played bass in a jazz group, covering “All Blues" and “Freddie Freeloader," chestnuts by Miles Davis, along with “You Are the Sunshine of My Life" and “Sir Duke" — by Wonder, ...
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