Education News

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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National Endowment for the Arts Announces NEA Jazz Masters Live

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2008

Washington, DC - Building on the National Endowment for the Arts's (NEA) highly successful NEA Jazz Masters on Tour initiative, the NEA announces NEA Jazz Masters Live, a series of multiple event, extended engagements in selected communities, featuring NEA Jazz Masters. Managed by Arts Midwest, the NEA Jazz Masters Live initiative will bring more than 25 NEA Jazz Masters to 12 venues across nine states, including the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and the American Jazz ...

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Learn the Theory of Music By Understanding The Basics!

Source: All About Jazz
April 7, 2008

Have you ever struggled with playing the guitar, the piano, or the flute?

Maybe you thought you had no talent?

Well there is a vital first step which everyone seems to miss...

You need to learn the fundamentals of music theory FIRST.

THEN and only THEN can you put it all together and move to the next step of actually playing the music.

I have been playing music for over 30 years and have worked with hundreds of musicians, appeared ...

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Global Sound Conference Featuring Nightly Musical Concerts

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2008

Global Sound Conference Brings World's Top Sound Researchers, Technologists and Musicians to Los Angeles for Four Day Symposium

Second Annual Event Highlights Latest Developments in the Science of Sound; Award Winning Artists Sheila Chandra, Yungchen Lhamo, Agape Choir Perform Evening Concerts

LOS ANGELES - The Global Sound Conference announced today its second annual event bringing together the world's top sound researchers, technologists and musicians will take place May 9 - 12, 2008 at the Marina Del Rey Marriot in Los ...

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National Guitar Workshop Announces 2008 Season with John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, and More!

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2008

The National Guitar Workshop is proud to announce our 25th season of presenting week long workshops across the country and featuring guest artists such as John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Vernon Reid, Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, Sonny Landreth, Michael Angelo Batio and many more. Litchfield, CT-- The National Guitar Workshop is excited to announce the curriculum and guest artists for the 2008 season. This year's program will feature Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, The John Scofield Trio featuring Bill Stewart and Steve ...

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National Museum of American History Celebrates Seventh Annual Jazz Appreciation Month

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2008

At a special ceremony today, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History launched the seventh annual celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month with a program hosted at The George Washington University. Jazz artist Ramsey Lewis engaged fellow musician Larry Coryell in a conversation about jazz as America's national treasure and global export. Lewis also donated artifacts from his career to the museum's music collections. Now in its seventh year, JAM is an annual event that pays tribute to jazz both as ...

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