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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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Music Education Monday: A master class in improvisation with Gary Burton
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Regarded as one of the most significant and versatile jazz musicians ever to play his chosen instrument, vibraphonist Gary Burton has been an important figure in improvised music since the early 1960s. Now 73 years old, Burton is a multiple Grammy award winner known for his innovative four-mallet technique, his pioneering albums fusing jazz with rock and other popular musics, and for hiring as sidemen a series of guitarists who have gone on to greater fame, including Larry Coryell, Mick ...
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Music Education Monday: Feeling the funk with Paul Jackson and Mike Clark
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Though bassist Paul Jackson and drummer Mike Clark both have extensive lists of credits, they still may be best known as the funky foundation of the Headhunters, the band that backed keyboardist Herbie Hancock in the 1970s and subsequently spun off into an independent act. The slippery, off-beat syncopation of interlocking drum and bass tracks powering compositions like Hancock's “Palm Grease" and “Actual Proof" and the Headhunters' own “God Make Me Funky" was distinctive at the time and retains its ...
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Music Education Monday: Jazz drumming tips from Lewis Nash
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, you can pick up some tips on jazz drumming via a handful of videos recorded by the veteran percussionist Lewis Nash. Nash, who's 57 and originally from Phoenix, has made five recordings as a bandleader, but he's best known as a sideman to some of today's top jazz musicians, with more than 400 recordings to his credit. He got his first big break in his early 20s playing with singer Betty Carter, and subsequently has ...
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