Education News

Emeryville Taiko Director Susan Horn Made a Dream Come True

Source: All About Jazz
November 7, 2008

Emeryville Taiko Announces workshops and concert series for November in the Bay area

Emeryville CA location is closed; classes temporarily canceled Sadly, we are unable to continue using our Emeryville location for classes and workshops due to occupancy permit issues. Until we find an alternate space we have reluctantly suspended our classes and lecture/demo sessions. See below for details and please check our website for updates on our situation.

November workshop We haven't quit drumming entirely. We will ...

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Essay in D: The Critics Cogitation About Titles

Source: Michael Ricci
November 6, 2008

Perhaps the notion of giving a work a title makes composers feel awkward.

During an interview segment of a Making Music concert at Zankel Hall last week the composer George Crumb was asked whether the titles of the first and last movements of his Vox Balaenae (Voice of the Whale) Vocalise (... for the Beginning of Time) and Sea-Nocturne (... for the End of Time) were meant to be as ominous as they sounded.

They're just poetic titles. Sometimes people ...

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Jazz St. Louis Seeks Student Saxophonist to Perform with Greg Osby and Willie Akins

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
November 5, 2008

Jazz St. Louis is looking for a young saxophonist who may be “St. Louis' next rising star of jazz" to perform with saxophonists Greg Osby (pictured) and Willie Akins on April 10 and 11 at Jazz at the Bistro.The concert is dubbed “St. Louis Shoes," after Osby's CD of the same name; the competition is open to all saxophonists in high school or college in the St. Louis area, including both Missouri and Illinois. Applicants will be asked ...

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George Benson's Breezin' Lounge Now Accepting Students

Source: All About Jazz
November 2, 2008

After many months of development, jazz guitarists who would like to learn directly from jazz great George Benson will get their opportunity. The Breezin' Lounge launched on WorkshopLive.com last week and the website accepts students on a monthly, quarterly or yearly basis. Students and fans alike will experience a no-holds-barred look at Mr. Bensons musical ideas, playing techniques, formative years and the inspiration which has made him one of the best jazz guitarists and performers in the world.

The lessons ...

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Page McConnell's Senior Study:The Art of Improvisation

Source: JamBase
October 31, 2008

Page McConnell's Senior Study “The Art of Improvisation" Rediscovered

Phish Throughout the years, Phish fans have searched for keyboardist Page McConnell's senior study. Entitled “The Art of Improvisation," the work was completed at Goddard College and has just now surfaced.

To check out Page's thoughts on improvisation, go here.

Many of you may recall that Trey Anastasio also went to Goddard where he completed his senior study, “The Man Who Stepped Into Yesterday." For more on Trey's “TMWSIY" go here. ...

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Linear Jazz Improvisation: Books Now in Hard Copy

Source: All About Jazz
October 31, 2008

Trombonist and composer Ed Byrne announces the release in HARD COPY of new editions of all 42 Linear Jazz Improvisation books: 12 Books for All Instruments and Voices: Concert, Bass Clef, Bb, and Eb. They are now available in spiral-bound hard copy through LuLu.com for easy reading on the piano or music stand with new color covers. They will soon be available also at Amazon. All LJI books come with play along capabilities (except Book 1). E-Book prices have been ...

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Dave Liebman to Give Master Class, Lecture on November 13 at Washington University

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
October 31, 2008

While he's in St. Louis to perform a free concert for Washington University's Jazz at Holmes series on the evening of Thursday, November 14, saxophonist Dave Liebman (pictured) also will give a master class and a lecture on the Wash U. campus.On Wednesday, November 13, Liebman will host a performance/master class at 3:00 p.m., and at 4:00 p.m. he will lecture on “Improvisation, Aesthetics and World View." Both events are open to the public, are sponsored by the ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Circles

Source: All About Jazz
October 27, 2008

Circles

This charming little jazz prelude starts off with clean, clear, harmless souding, perfectly voice-led rootless diatonic 7th chords derived from the cycle of 4ths. A sunny start to this decades old piece first published in Sheet Music Magazine by JazzPianoOnline contributor Stuart Isacoff and dedicated to his teacher Roland Hanna. Soon enough, though, the piece takes a minor turn and encounters some serious jazz chords- b9, #11 and b13 altered dominant chords among them. Learn about the different voicing ...

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