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Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) - Reserve Now For Winter Program With Jazz Greats Leading Masterclasses
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Scott Thompson Public Relations
Coming off a successful initiation this past January, Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) summoned several, world renowned Jazz greats to conduct masterclasses, 1-on-1 sessions and joint performances for the first winter program of JAM, which hosted students from Taiwan, Canada and Europe. Markus Gottschlich is JAM founder and Miami Beach Jazz Festival Artistic Director. JAM SCHEDULE Summer sessions are August 22-28 Winter session January 23-29, 2017 (in collaboration with the Miami Beach Jazz Festival) “Early-bird" ...
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Music Education Monday: Developing a theme into a big band arrangement
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's Music Education Monday is a sort of case study in big band arranging, presented by pianist Bill Dobbins, professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. A veteran jazz educator, Dobbins first joined the Eastman faculty in 1973, and played a major role in designing the school's jazz studies program. He currently teaches jazz composing and arranging, gives applied lessons to jazz writing majors, and directs the Eastman Jazz Ensemble ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Since saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill recently won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition “In for a Penny, In for a Pound," this seems like an opportune Music Education Monday to share with StLJN readers a video master class with him. Threadgill, 72, is a Chicago native who's been creating innovative music since the 1970s with a variety of ensembles, notably the trio Air with bassist Fred Hopkins and drummer Steve McCall; Very Very Circus; the seven-member ...
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Music Education Monday: An online course in improvisation from MIT, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA is known as one of the top schools in the country for engineering, math, and science, and as such, they've also been a pioneer in online learning, putting material from many courses on the internet for anyone to access for free. And while MIT may not be known particularly as a mecca for the arts, they do have some music courses among those online offerings, including the one being spotlighted here today ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with David Liebman's Expansions
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday, it's a video master class with saxophonist David Liebman and his band Expansions, who will be in St. Louis to perform for one night only this Saturday, April 23 at Jazz at the Bistro. Liebman, who's now 69 years old, has played thousands of live dates and made hundreds of recordings over the last 45+ years, leading his own groups and working with notable musicians including Miles Davis, Elvin Jones, Chick Corea, Dave Holland, ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with percussionist Airto Moreira
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday, you can sit in on a master class with Airto Moreira, the Brazilian-born percussionist who helped define early 1970s jazz-fusion through his work with Miles Davis and the original lineups of Weather Report and Return to Forever. Moriera, who will be 75 years old this year, is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their work together recording, performing and co-leading a band has been the main focus of both their careers since the ...
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Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, let's look in via video on a jazz trumpet clinic presented by Etienne Charles. Born in 1983 on the island of Trinidad, Charles has a master's degree from Juilliard and a bachelor's from Florida State University, and currently serves as assistant professor of jazz studies at Michigan State University. As a sideman, he has performed and or recorded with Monty Alexander, Roberta Flack, Frank Foster, Ralph MacDonald, Johnny Mandel, Wynton Marsalis, Marcus Roberts, Maria Schneider, ...
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Music Education Monday: A jazz guitar workshop with Barney Kessel
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from the legendary guitarist Barney Kessel. Some younger musicians and fans understandably might not know Kessel, who died of a brain tumor in 2004 and previously had been inactive since suffering a stroke back in 1992, but for a long stretch of the 20th century, he was one of the busiest and most respected jazz guitarists in the world. Born in 1923 in Muskogee, OK—yes, the very same town ...
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