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Jackie Robinson and Jazz!
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All About Jazz
By Eddie Becton, All About Jazz: Los Angeles Everyone knows the enduring legacy Jackie Robinson created on the baseball field in 1947, becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. The very act of stepping to the plate on that historic day, April 15th, helped Robinson cement his name in the annals of world history. Recognizing the impact of that occurrence, Robinson went beyond the baseball field to address the pressing need for racial equality and civil ...
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Jazz Goes to School Returns to Eagle County Schools This Week
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All About Jazz
The Vail Jazz Foundation’s ‘Jazz Goes to School’ musical education program for fourth and fifth graders returns to Eagle County elementary schools today through Thursday. This innovative approach to teaching jazz music and social studies will reach over 1,000 students during the 2008/09 school year. The program, which is in its 11th year, is designed to educate students about America’s own music form — jazz — and its role in our country’s history, and to foster an appreciation of jazz ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Three Benny Green Licks
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All About Jazz
Three Benny Green Licks
Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet harmonically straightforward, adhering closely to the underlying chord progression. An overflowing font of bebop licks, his solos are an unending source of material for beginning and seasoned improvisors alike. Three such licks from his breakneck solo over the Bud Powell tune Celia, recorded ...
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New Age Piano Music Meets the Internet
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All About Jazz
If youre at all into the New Age Music scene, then the names George Winston and David Lanz are already well known. But now theres a new name on the horizon Edward Weiss. Hailing from beautiful San Diego in sunny California, this teacher, composer and published author does the seemingly impossible: Teaching anyone (and Edward stresses anyone) how to play and compose their very own New Age Style Music on the piano even if theyve never touched a musical keyboard ...
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DCA Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
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All About Jazz
Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
Los Angeles, CA - A new art facility specifically dedicated to young people and named in honor of Charles Mingus will be inaugurated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) on September 28, 2008, at 11:30 a.m. Program activities will begin with the grand opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center (CMYAC), located in the Watts Community. Additional performances and exhibitions ...
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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising with Motivic Development
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All About Jazz
Improvising with Motivic Development
Motivic development is the compositional technique of creating a melody that is made up of a single melodic idea (a motive) that is subsequently “developed" by being repeated, altered, modified or transformed melodically and/or rhythmically. As a technique of improvisation, it can help you create strong, logical, coherent and interesting solos. Learn how to use this technique in your own improvisations by watching a motivic analysis of Keith Jarrett's solo over the Jaki Byard tune Chandra ...
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Philharmonic Plants Youth Orchestra Seed
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Michael Ricci
Youth Orchestra L.A. -- YOLA for short -- turns the traditional youth orchestra model “completely on its head," said Gretchen Nielsen, the Philharmonic's director of educational initiatives. Whereas most youth orchestras select only the best musicians and sometimes charge fees, YOLA gives free instruments and lessons, signing up everyone it can, she said.
A few weeks ago, Edson Natareno was counting down the days of summer - - not in dread, but in anticipation. For the 10-year-old, the start of ...
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