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Music Education Monday: A Q&A session with saxophonist Jimmy Heath
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
A lesson needn't be formal to be valuable, and so in that spirit, today for Music Education Monday here's a video of the veteran saxophonist Jimmy Heath answering questions posed by high school students from the Tucson Jazz Institute's ensemble devoted to the music of Duke Ellington. Posted in May of this year, the footage was shot for Passing the Torch, an upcoming documentary film about Heath by Bret Primack, aka the Jazz Video Guy. Heath, named an NEA Jazz ...
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Music Education Monday: A trumpet course with Clark Terry
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday, here's something that will have special meaning for a lot of St. Louis jazz fans: a short video course in how to play the trumpet from Clark Terry. Terry, who died last year, was a St. Louis native who spent more than 70 years as a working professional trumpet player, and generally is considered one of the greatest jazz musicians ever to come from this area. Terry also was of the first well-known jazz ...
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Education and Audiences
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KCJazzLark By Larry Kopitnik
The educators surprised me. They’re engaged in far more than developing the next KC jazz superstar. They’re introducing children to the music. They’re developing audiences. They’re bringing the best of the best to this city. They’re perpetuating our jazz culture. This is the third week of articles culled from the latest Jam. It’s available available – free! – all over town or can be downloaded as a PDF here. The issue celebrates the thirty years of publication by asking, what ...
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Music Education Monday: Soloing and comping with guitarist Herb Ellis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The late guitarist Herb Ellis was known as a master of blues-inflected mainstream swing, and today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from him in jazz soloing and comping. Ellis, who died in 2010, started his career in the 1940s as a big band guitarist, playing with Glen Gray and Jimmy Dorsey, but first gained wide notice as a member of pianist Oscar Peterson's trio from 1953 to 1958. After that, he spent three years performing ...
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Music Education Monday: Jazz/Rock drumming with Danny Seraphine
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a drum lesson via video from Danny Seraphine, best known as a founding member and the original drummer of the band Chicago. Although Seraphine left the group in 1990, his work on their early albums helped establish them not only as major hit-makers, but also as a band that, at least early in their career, was considered innovative and musically credible by a lot of jazz players and fans. Although Chicago subsequently ...
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Music Education Monday: Jazz theory with Barry Harris
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, here are some lessons in piano and jazz theory from the veteran pianist Barry Harris, via a series of short videos produced by the Jazz Academy program of Jazz at Lincoln Center in NYC. The first of these four clips was part of a previous post here with some other piano-related material, but now that the whole series is online, it seemed worth sharing again along with the companion videos. With regard to Harris, we ...
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Music Education Monday: Tips on developing solo ideas from organist Eddie Landsberg
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
When organist Eddie Landsberg was mentioned here a few months back as part of a pair of posts collecting info of interest to beginning B-3 players, it was noted that he's got a YouTube channel that features a number of instructional videos. Today's installment of Music Education Monday spotlights a couple of those videos, in which Landsberg talks through how he develops solo ideas, using the standards “Stella By Starlight" and “Softly as A Morning Sunrise" as examples. While some ...
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Music Education Monday: Guitar lessons from Pat Martino
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
If you had a chance to hear guitarist Pat Martino when he performed in St. Louis a couple of weeks ago, you may have wondered how he does what he does. Today for Music Education Monday, you may get at least a partial answer to that question, as you can see Martino (pictured) explaining some of his concepts and musical ideas via a series of video lessons. Excerpted from an “interactive video master class" called The Nature of Guitar, the ...
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