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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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Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) - Reserve Now For Winter Program With Jazz Greats Leading Masterclasses
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Coming off a successful initiation this past January, Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) summoned several, world renowned Jazz greats to conduct masterclasses, 1-on-1 sessions and joint performances for the first winter program of JAM, which hosted students from Taiwan, Canada and Europe. Markus Gottschlich is JAM founder and Miami Beach Jazz Festival Artistic Director. JAM SCHEDULE Summer sessions are August 22-28 Winter session January 23-29, 2017 (in collaboration with the Miami Beach Jazz Festival) “Early-bird" ...
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Music Education Monday: Developing a theme into a big band arrangement
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Music Education Monday is a sort of case study in big band arranging, presented by pianist Bill Dobbins, professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. A veteran jazz educator, Dobbins first joined the Eastman faculty in 1973, and played a major role in designing the school's jazz studies program. He currently teaches jazz composing and arranging, gives applied lessons to jazz writing majors, and directs the Eastman Jazz Ensemble ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Since saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill recently won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition “In for a Penny, In for a Pound," this seems like an opportune Music Education Monday to share with StLJN readers a video master class with him. Threadgill, 72, is a Chicago native who's been creating innovative music since the 1970s with a variety of ensembles, notably the trio Air with bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall; Very Very Circus; the seven-member ...
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