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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: The Jazz Blues Progression
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All About Jazz
The Jazz Blues Progression When the blues is played in a jazz context the chord progression is more sophisticated in the number and types of chords used. In addition to the basic I, IV, V chords, jazz blues incorporates major and minor ii-V progressions, substitute dominants, related ii chords and more. In keeping with the improvisatory nature of the music, jazz players vary the progression from chorus to chorus to keep the short 12 bar form fresh and spontaneous. Watch ...
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Ray Vega Joins UVM Faculty, Helps Build Burlington's Reputation as 'Jazz Capital of New England'
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All About Jazz
Ray Vega is multi-tasking. He sat for a chat Wednesday in the University of Vermont Recital Hall, in the same building where the newest faculty member in UVM's jazz-studies program is rushing to set up his new office in time for Tuesday's start of the school year. While in the Recital Hall he fielded a few calls on his cell phone -- two from his wife, Miriam, about work a contractor is doing on the home they're trying to sell ...
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Jazz Library a High Note for UNT
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All About Jazz
A lone horn's wail echoes in the hallway of the music building at the University of North Texas as a music student shuffles down the hall carrying her instrument. The student may not know it, but she's one step closer to a jazz music legend. A moving van delivered the 400-piece Maynard Ferguson library to the UNT campus last week. The library, provided by a consortium of donors, spans Ferguson's career from the mid-1950s to his death in 2006. “This ...
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Fall Events Sponsored by the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers-Newark
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All About Jazz
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Events, Fall 2008 Attached is a schedule of events at the Institute of Jazz Studies for the Fall semester. In addition to our longstanding Jazz Research Roundtable forum, we are also presenting a a new solo piano series: Jazz Piano--Four Generations, featuring the work of four great piano stylists: Ray Bryant, Eric Reed, Geri Allen, and Brandon McCune. Prof. Lewis Porter is continuing his series of performances with distinguished ...
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Class Acts: Jazz 101 and Beyond
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All About Jazz
When I wanted to learn how to make sushi, I took a class at Cooks. Curious about Venice, I signed up for a Compleat Scholar course at the University of Minnesota. If I ever decide to try Bharatanatyam dancing, I'll go to Ragamala. We live where classes are available on almost anything, including jazz. Beginning in September, two esteemed jazz educators, performers and composers will offer their takes on that topic. No tests, no grades, just the joy of learning. ...
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Jazz Legend Maynard Ferguson's Music Library is Headed to UNT
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All About Jazz
DENTON -- Jazz legend Maynard Ferguson's entire music library will be located at the University of North Texas, and his extensive collection of memorabilia, horns, wardrobe and awards will likely be housed at a museum in Denton, the university has announced. An anonymous donor and a foundation bought Ferguson's estate for $600,000, UNT music professor Steve Wiest said. The Maynard Ferguson Music Library will cover Ferguson's career from the mid-1950s until his death, in 2006. The school was chosen because ...
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These Little Kids Think Coltrane is Cool
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All About Jazz
At Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Howard Gardner has long taught his theory of multiple intelligences to enable his students, when they enter their own classrooms, to understand and nurture these various strengths in the youngsters they teach. As explained by a Gardner practitioner, second-grade teacher Christine Passarella, in last fall's Adelphi University newsletter: “In the past, if you had linguistic intelligence, if you could read and write, you were smart. If you had mathematical and logical intelligence, you still ...
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FCC to Kick Off DTV Transition Education Tour
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PC Magazine
Having just wrapped its white spaces tour, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hit the road once again to educate consumers about the upcoming digital television transition. The five commissioners and FCC staff will fan out across the nation over the next few months to ensure that citizens are not left in the dark come February 17, 2009. “As part of our efforts to prepare consumers for the transition, we have identified television markets in which the largest number of ...
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