Education News

"No Charts!" Ensemble for Middle and High School Students in Columbus

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Leave your reading glasses at home! The “No Charts" Ensemble is all about using your ears! This course is designed to introduce students to playing their instruments by ear, an experience that will open new avenues of creativity for every participant. Every day we will memorize a simple tune or two and improvise without reading notes or worrying about jazz theory. The band is open to students entering middle through high school who play “Big Band" instruments: alto, tenor and ...

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Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz is a significant new resource containing valuable information for the most experienced to novice music educator. Utilizing this text as a basis for coursework, participants will engage discussions of music/jazz theory and history as well as analyze and rehearse jazz band arrangements (please bring your instrument). Through discussion, lecture and involvement, participants will discover learning and teaching opportunities that exist when creating lesson plans for individual jazz band programs.

Guest speakers will include Vaughn ...

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Ohio Piano Teacher Training in Columbus Throughout June

Source: All About Jazz
April 25, 2008

Focus On Jazz - Teacher Training Workshop This three-session workshop is designed specifically for traditional studio piano teachers who have some or no experience with jazz or blues but would like to integrate these styles into their teaching and playing. Through lecture, demonstration, written example, and hands-on experience, participants will learn how to integrate a teaching approach that involves personal expression, improvisation and the applied knowledge of music theory. Sponsor: Jazz Arts Group Time/Dates: Fridays, June 6, 13 & 20, ...

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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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