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Renowned Jazz Guitarist Mark Elf Debuts Jazz Guitar Conservatory

Source: Braithwaite & Katz Communications
August 7, 2008

MarkElfConservatory.com offers students affordable, practical approach to learning jazz guitar with video lessons, narrated tutorials, music PDF and midi-files, access to critiques by Mark Elf and much more Master jazz guitarist Mark Elf, who has worked with the Jazz Giants, Dizzy Gillespie, The Heath Brothers, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Hendricks and many others, and has nine consecutive #1 national jazz radio CD hits, opens his revolutionary online Jazz Guitar Conservatory. His practical approach to learning jazz guitar is an ...

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With All That Jazz out There, Where Do I Start?

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2008

“We Always Swing" Jazz Series Assistant Director Greg Aker knows about jazz education.

As someone who has studied the genre and taught it to children, he is used to all sorts of responses - “I don't like jazz" must be high on that list. But that's a major misconception, Aker said. “Jazz is not the snooty background music you see in movies - it can be, but that's not all it is. Just like with rock and roll or hip-hop ...

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The Beauty of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
August 6, 2008

Great jazz artists fashion a unique manner of playing that expresses their musical personality.

Jazz performance requires dynamic creativity, great knowledge of the jazz forms, and an incredible ability to distill life experience into musical expression.

Jazz as a type of music was first developed by African Americans around the first decades of the 20th century with an identifiable history and distinct stylistic evolution. Jazz music developed alongside blues and other popular music classes with these genres overlapping in many ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2008

Introduction to Chordscale Theory

Chordscale theory describes the interdependent relationship of harmony and melody. It states that chords serve specific roles within a key which determine the scales that are associated with those chords which, in turn, represent a palette of available notes that can be used for improvisation. This theory is fundamental to learning how to improvise.

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Jazz Player Kirk Whalum Connects with Young Fans

Source: All About Jazz
July 25, 2008

Just as the late Oklahoma jazz guitarist Charlie Christian made a lasting impression on today's artists with his compositions, jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum is connecting with the next generation as an artist-in-residence, and with fans through technology. It is a beautiful, sunny day in Memphis, and Whalum, 50, has been in the studio, compiling tracks for his live recording, “Gospel According to Jazz Chapter III," to be released later this year. He will be the keynote act with Tulsa saxophonist ...

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Children Schooled on ABCs of Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

When listening to jazz, many forget that the genre is linked to blues. For that reason, Felice Green, a member of the Handy festival board of directors, has been organizing the ABCs of Jazz for the W.C. Handy Music Festival since the festival began. On Tuesday, area children and adults gathered at Mount Moriah Family Life Center to learn, in a Music 101 style, about the elements and origins of jazz. The overall mission, Green said, is to inform the ...

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Jazz for Kids: Jazzed up About Music

Source: All About Jazz
July 23, 2008

Through performance, band teaches children value of genre at Knights of Columbus Hall LANCASTER - Larry Cook believes in the educational power of jazz music. With the help of his double-string bass - and four other musicians - he attempted to pass his knowledge of jazz on to a very special audience Monday - children. “Our music, it's not watered-down jazz," Cook said. “Some performers will go in front of a young audience and play 'Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star.' But ...

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#1 Blues Harmonica Mastercourse Finally Debuts Online

Source: All About Jazz
July 17, 2008

Jerry Portnoy, one of America's leading blues harp master players for over 30 years, has toured with Muddy Waters and shared the international stage with Eric Clapton. Now he has finally released his acclaimed “Jerry Portnoy's Blues Harmonica Masterclass" to be enjoyed by blues harmonica devotees directly from the web. The 3-CD box set also features a book with witty, insightful commentary, and historic tour photos of Muddy Waters, Little Walter, Junior Wells, Willie Dixon, Sonny Terry, Dizzie Gillespie, and ...

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