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Exalt Entertainment Group Offers African American History Education Through Jazz Performances

Source: Mosnar Communications, Inc
January 22, 2008

(Detroit, MI) -- Exalt Entertainment Group recognized as a leading jazz booking agency and premiering spoken word artists nationally. Today announced that in honor of African American History Month they are now scheduling jazz performances events that combine the education of African American History. The live jazz presentations demonstrate and explain the art form, emphasizing the history and culture. “The role of African Americans and culture is central to the continuously unfolding history of Jazz. Educators that are working musicians ...

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Frogstory Music Announces the Release of Thoth Music Learning Software Version 2.3

Source: All About Jazz
January 15, 2008

THoTH Music Learning Software is a program that helps guitar teachers and students with scales, arpeggios, chord voicings, and other musical elements by applying them to the chord progressions of standard and jazz songs. Version 2.3, with new features and new lessons, is now available for download. The program comes with thirty lessons written by the program's author, Steve Carter, who taught guitar at Berklee College of Music for twenty-five years. Each lesson is related to a particular song, and ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
January 14, 2008

Improvising over Solar Miles Davis wrote this tune in 1954 and it first appeared on his recording Walkin' with Horace Silver on the piano. Watch this lesson to learn how to improvise over this tune with chord tones, guide tones, arpeggios, scale passages and approach patterns. What is JazzPianoOnline.com? Online interactive streaming video jazz piano lessons. Watch Watch high-quality streaming video lessons on topics that matter most to you: jazz theory & composition, improvisation & licks, ...

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Toronto to Host the 35th Annual IAJE Conference

Source: All About Jazz
January 8, 2008

The International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) will inhabit the Canadian metropolis of Toronto when it returns for the 35th Annual Conference from January 9-12, 2008.  Upwards of 7,000 educators, musicians, record executives, exhibitors, media, students and enthusiasts are expected to attend. Education, teacher training and outreach will be firmly at the heart of the four-day conference agenda that will also feature Canada's most respected and influential jazz performing artists. With the variety of clinics, concerts, and a ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
January 7, 2008

The Line Cliche The line cliche is a well worn reharmonization device- and for good reason- it creates the illusion of harmonic progression over an otherwise static chord. Start using this technique in your playing by watching this lesson to learn what a line cliche is, how to use it and how to improvise over it. What is JazzPianoOnline.com? Online interactive streaming video jazz piano lessons. Watch Watch high-quality streaming video lessons on topics that matter ...

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George Duke to Give History of Soul Music Jan. 31 at Berklee College

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2008

Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee presents a history of soul music with multi Grammy-winner George Duke - pioneering synth player and producer for superstars from Miles and Michael to Dizzy and Zappa - January 31 Boston, December 19, 2007 - The Sovereign Bank Music Series at Berklee continues with a man who has made soulful contributions in almost every genre of music - five-time Grammy-winner and synth pioneer George Duke. Starting out in jazz with Jean-Luc Ponty and Cannonball ...

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This week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
January 2, 2008

Improvising over Blue Bossa This Kenny Dorham tune from Joe Henderson's seminal 1963 Blue Note release Page One, is perhaps the classic latin jazz tune and certainly one of the first tunes that most jazz players learn to improvise over. This lesson, the first in the “Improvising over . . ." series on JazzPianoOnline.com takes you through a harmonic analysis, a review of the basic chordscale choices and shows you, step-by-step, how to improvise over the changes to ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
December 27, 2007

Reharmonize Auld Lang Syne Instead of playing a vanilla I-IV-V version of this old Scottish melody on New Years this year try this lush one-chord-per-bar reharmonization. Watch the step-by-step transformation take place through the the use of three simple techniques: cycle extension, substitute dominants and tonic substitution. Make sure, however, that you are good and sober before trying to play these new changes- there are a lot of them!

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