Education News

Herb Alpert Donates $15 Million to CalArts

Source: All About Jazz
April 24, 2008

COLLEGE ENDOWMENT: Herb Alpert and his wife, Lani Hall Alpert, have a long-range plan for music education

The multi-Grammy winner has given $15 million to the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts.

Eight-time Grammy winner and Los Angeles native Herb Alpert, who in November pledged $30 million to UCLA to establish the cross-disciplinary UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music, has now given $15 million to the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts. ...

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Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members of the 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra

Source: Monterey Jazz Festival
April 24, 2008

Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members Of The 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra 21 High School Musicians From 11 States Comprise MJF's Renowned National Big Band NGJO Performs At North Sea Jazz Festival In Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 9 - 11 NGJO Performs At Berklee College Of Music, July 15 Next Generation Composition Competition Winner, Sean Richey, Debuts “40 Days And 40 Nights" At 51st Monterey Jazz Festival, September 21, 2008 April 22, 2008; Monterey, CA; The ...

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Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute Shatters Enrollment Projections, Introduces Proprietary Technology

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

Strong worldwide demand drives an unprecedented success of the very popular online learning institute, the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute. Through video interchanges, students in 40 countries are converging on one site to learn jazz around the world. This leading edge video technology combined with full accessibility to a veteran jazz master signals a breakthrough in learning on the internet. The growth has been phenomenal and gratifying Napa, CA -- The Internet-based Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute (JBGI) announces today that it ...

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Bill Cole Non-Western Wind Instruments Workshop, April 25, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
April 21, 2008

Bill Cole will lead this workshop featuring his specialty: non-western wind instruments. He'll cover the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese sona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shenai, Tibetan trumpet and Australian didjeridu. Bill Cole is a musician, composer, educator and writer. Since its inception, Dr. Cole has led The Untempered Ensemble. He has performed and recorded Ornette Coleman, Jayne Cortez, Julius Hemphill, Sam Rivers, James Blood Ulmer, Fred Ho and many others. He has written acclaimed compositions for ...

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The IAJE Collapses

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

It turns out that rumors of the imminent death of the IAJE were accurate. Following its financially disastrous 2008 conference in Toronto, the International Association of Jazz Education has canceled its 2009 conference and is about to file for bankruptcy. The huge meeting of musicians, educators, producers, record company executives and others from every precinct of jazz was to have been held in Seattle next January.

The IAJE grew from a music educators' collective into a behemoth whose organizational weaknesses ...

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IAJE Cancels Seattle Conference, Declares Bankruptcy

Source: All About Jazz
April 19, 2008

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IAJE News: American Jazz Gathering, Planned for Seattle, is Canceled

Source: All About Jazz
April 18, 2008

By Paul de Barros The most important American jazz gathering of the year, scheduled to take place in Seattle in January, has been canceled because its presenter is declaring bankruptcy. In what is being described as a “perfect storm" of bad luck, unchecked growth, fundraising and management failures, the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) - an important link to Seattle's successful school jazz-band scene - has collapsed. According to IAJE's legal counsel, Alan Bergman, it will go into Chapter ...

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Three Outstanding Jazz Bands Receive Cash Awards in Savannah Music Festival's 2008 Swing Central Competition

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2008

Ten talented high school jazz bands from across the nation competed for $12,000 in cash awards in Savannah Music Festival's (SMF) SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop. The three-day jazz intensive included improvisation sessions, and breakout instrumental and performance clinics with many of the world's finest jazz educators during SMF's closing weekend from April 3-5, 2008. Apart from participation in SWING CENTRAL programs, students saw their clinicians perform live in several standing-room-only productions featuring such jazz greats ...

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