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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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Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

It's tough trying to maintain an active lifestyle and wanting to learn piano at the same time. Not only that, but piano lessons with good teachers are expensive and it's often really difficult to schedule lessons. So to fit it all in to a filled-to-the-gills schedule more and more students have turned to taking their piano lessons on the Internet. They've proven that not only is it doable, but that they have the brains and musical ability to improve and ...

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Conference at Stony Brook: Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures, April 3-5, 2008

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook will be presenting a major jazz conference and festival from April 3-5, 2008. Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures will explore the music's connections to the other arts and will feature many of the world's most prominent jazz scholars. Twenty-five speakers will be addressing the many ways in which the music of jazz intersects with currents in art, literature, film, theater, and politics. Rounding out the event will be performances by pianist Vijay Iyer, ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2008

Related ii Chords In combination with dominant chords, related ii chords can dramatically increase the reharmonization potential of any progression. Watch this lesson and see how a garden variety ii-V-I-V/ii progression is reharmonized into five unique and highly chromatic progressions- and this is just scratching the surface of the possibilities that this technique affords. Learn what a related ii chord is, how and where to use it (and not use it), take a quiz on identifying them and ...

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