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Jazz Saxophone Masterclass with Evan Tate in Carpi, Italy

Source: All About Jazz
September 30, 2007

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

Source: PlayJazzNow PR
September 28, 2007

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

Source: Jim Eigo, Jazz Promo Services
September 26, 2007

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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This Week on jazzpianoonline.com

Source: All About Jazz
September 23, 2007

Kenny Barron Lick Kenny Barron has been the dominant veteran straight-ahead jazz pianist for quite a while now. Check out this sparkling lick that Kenny uses to open his solo to “I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You" from his early 90s Maybeck Recital Hall disc. Learn about upper structure triads and how to use this lick to reharmonize a major ii-V- I progression.

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La Music Academy Celebrates 10th Anniversary

Source: All About Jazz
September 21, 2007

More Than 1,000 Students Have Benefited From Intense Music Education

Pasadena, CA - LA Music Academy, which offers traditional music instruction for adults over 18 in vocal, bass, guitar and drums, is celebrating the 10th anniversary of its first graduating class this October. As the Fall semester kicks off October 1st, the Academy, which is fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, is observing a decade of music education by offering a second year program to students ...

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2007/08 Professional Training Workshops at Carnegie Hall

Source: All About Jazz
September 19, 2007

During the 2007–2008 season, The Weill Music Institute at Carnegie Hall presents seven Professional Training Workshops, which include master classes and sessions of intensive performance preparation for pre-professional and professional musicians, led by master artists of jazz, world music, and classical repertoire. The workshops offer a unique opportunity for young musicians to be coached and trained by today's master artists in an intimate setting. Each workshop features at least one element that is accessible to the public in the form ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
September 15, 2007

Chromatic Tendency Tones If you have had success with the diatonc tendency tone exercises watch this lesson to learn to hear the remaining 5 pitches of the chromatic scale. Each note has a tendency to want to resolve within a given harmonic context. This lesson will teach you to recognize these tendencies and to use them to identify each pitch by name. Watch Watch high-quality streaming video lessons on topics that matter most to you: jazz theory & composition, improvisation ...

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This Week on JazzPianoOnline.com

Source: All About Jazz
September 9, 2007

Rootless Voicings with Added Tension Major ii-V-Is Part 1

These standard voicings are the bedrock of every jazz pianists' technique. From Wynton Kelly and Red Garland to Tommy Flanagan, Bill Evans and beyond, these voicings pervade bop and post-bop jazz piano. Watch part 1 of this multi-part series to learn how to build and use these rich sounding voicings over the major ii-V-I progression using good voice- leading and effective use of tension.

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