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Announcing Innovative New Arts Education Curriculum Frameworks for Manitoba Schools
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All About Jazz
Announcing Innovative New Arts Education Curriculum Frameworks for Manitoba Schools The Alliance for Arts Education in Manitoba is pleased to join Honourable Peter Bjornson, Minister of Education, Citizenship and Youth to announce new curricula in Dance, Drama, Music and Visual Arts Constable Edward Finney School 25 Anglia Ave, Wpg MB Phone: 694-8688 Thursday, October 25th 10:00 a.m. The Alliance for Arts Education in Manitoba (AAEM) is pleased to join with Manitoba Education, Citizenship and ...
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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com
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All About Jazz
Upper Structure Triads Upper structure triads have been an enduring feature of jazz since the early Bebop era. This chord voicing technique can be heard in big bands and solo piano alike and produces a rich bitonal effect that can be used for comping, harmonizing melodies and improvising melodic lines. Watch as all possible upper structure triads are derived from their component tensions, only a few are selected for use and then see how they are employed in the the ...
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Today on JazzPianoOnline.com
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All About Jazz
Peace, one of Horace Silver's lesser-known compositions is a beautiful and complex ballad of only 10 bars. Watch as the chord changes to the tune are voiced with a variety of techniques: rootless voicings with added tension, open voicings, upper structures, voicings in fourths and a melody is improvised over the top. Download the note-for-note transciption and play it as a stand-alone miniature or use it an extended introduction to the head of the tune. Watch Watch high-quality ...
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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com
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All About Jazz
The Blues Progression: Jazz piano students are always asking about the blues. What are the chords? What is the blues scale? How do I improvise over the changes? Well here are the answers. The basics of the blues progression are laid out in this lesson: blues form, major and minor blues chord progressions and the blues scale are covered. Learn how to use the blues scale to improvise over the blues progression by incorporating three effective improvisational techniques ...
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Bucks County Community College Presents Jazz Guitar Master Class with Tom Giacabetti
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All About Jazz
Thursday November 8th at 6:00 pm Bucks County Community College Music and Multimedia Center, Room 001 275 Swamp Road, Newtown Pennsylvania 18940 About Tom Giacabetti Tom Giacabetti is a well-known guitarist/educator in the Philadelphia and Atlantic City area. Much sought after for his versatility, Tom has performed in every major theater and showroom in Philadelphia and Atlantic City. He has appeared in concert with Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the ...
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Jazz Saxophone Masterclass with Evan Tate in Carpi, Italy
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All About Jazz
Saxophonist Evan Tate is to give a Masterclass in cooperation with Julius Keilwerth Saxophones and the Istituto Musicale Pareggiato “A. Tonelli" - via San Rocco 5 - 41012 Carpi, Italy. For more than a decade Saxophonist/Composer Evan Tate has provided an original voice in the European jazz scene. With such formations as the “Munich Saxophone Family", Joe Malinga's “Southern Africa Force", Hermann Breuer's “Blue Bone", Joris Dudli's “New York Propjekt" and “Funktett", Wolfgang Schmid's “Manaus", “The New Doug Hammond Trio", ...
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PlayJazzNow.com Releases Innovative Tracks for Jazz Vocalists
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PlayJazzNow PR
CHICAGO, IL -- In its desire to provide jazz educators and students the kind of materials they can really use, PlayJazzNow.com announces a new series of sing-along tracks. “I've been hearing from a lot of jazz vocalists who want what instrumentalists have had for years," says PlayJazzNow “trackmeister" Bill Harrison, a professional jazz bassist who has been playing and teaching for nearly 30 years. “We've just posted arrangements of some of the best loved standards, in comfortable keys for singers." ...
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The International Studio of Music and the Jazz Foundation of America are Proud to Announcea Collaborative Jazz Education Program Beginning This Fall
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Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
Two of New York's leading proponents of jazz and music education have teamed up to bring a new jazz class to New York: Intro to Jazz Guitar with Bernard Grobman. This 10 week class starts on Thursday, October 11th at 8:00 p.m. The class will be a hands on approach to learning the essentials of Jazz Guitar through scales, chords, style and repertoire. Tuition is $350 plus a $35 registration fee for new students. Classes are 90 minutes each week ...
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