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Monterey Jazz Festival Unveils the Digital Music Education Project

Source: All About Jazz
September 5, 2007

Monterey Jazz Festival Unveils the Digital Music Education Project September 8, 2007 at Sand City Borders on Monterey Peninsula

Innovative Jazz Education Program Connects Artists and Students Online

September 5, Monterey, CA - The Monterey Jazz Festival is proud to announce the unveiling of its newest educational initiative, the Internet-based Digital Music Education Project (DMEP). DMEP features educational audio interviews with prominent jazz musicians for use as a learning tool by musicians of all skill levels worldwide.

DMEP will be ...

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"First Tuesdays" - Free Professional Development Seminars for Musicians at Saint Peter's in NYC

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2007

Chamber Music America Announces its 2007-08 Series In collaboration with Midtown Arts Common and The Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's New York, NY - August 28, 2007 -- Chamber Music America (CMA) today announced the 2007-08 schedule for “First Tuesdays," its annual series of professional development seminars for jazz and classical musicians. The seminars will be presented in collaboration with Midtown Arts Common and the Jazz Ministry at Saint Peter's in New York City. Free of ...

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This Week on jazzpianoonline.com

Source: All About Jazz
August 28, 2007

Diatonic Tendency Tones Watch this cool little exercise and amaze your friends with your new found perfect pitch skills. OK, you won't quite have perfect pitch but you will get very close and you can learn this technique quickly. 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 diatonic pitch by name. What is JazzPianoOnline.com? JazzPianoOnline.com is ...

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10th Darmstadt Jazzforum - Conference, Festival, Workshop

Source: All About Jazz
August 27, 2007

The theme of the 10th Darmstadt Jazzforum, from October 4th to 7th, 2007, will be “Encounters. The World Meets Jazz." The Jazzforum's subject, though, is not so much “world music" as the fact that jazz was a productive music from its beginning and that musicians all over the world who took up jazz had to know and respect its roots as African-American music as well as had to contribute some of their own traditions.

A three-day public conference (in German ...

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The Jazzschool Fall '07 Classes and Programs

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
August 22, 2007

Ten years ago, pianist/composer/educator Susan Muscarella envisioned a school that would teach jazz performance to beginners as well as aspiring professionals from all walks of life. The Jazzschool began operations in Berkeley in September 1997, and as its 10th fall quarter comes into view next month, Muscarella, the school's Founder and Executive Director, is exhilarated about the road taken and energized about the ones ahead.

“For me," says Muscarella, “this anniversary year brings a renewed affirmation of our mission to ...

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This Week on jazzpianoonline.com

Source: All About Jazz
August 21, 2007

Can you ever know too many blues licks? This is a particularly tasty one. It is a three measure lick which works over a I7 to IV7 progression and can be broken up into two or even three smaller licks. This one comes from an obscure disc from the early 90s by trombonist Eric Felten with Jimmy Knepper and Joshua Redman as guests. Next Week: get your ears in shape. Learn to play jazz on the internet with JazzPianoOnline.com. Online ...

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Allegra Klein Recalls Work with Iraqi Unity Youth Orchestra

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 16, 2007

Musicians For Harmony Founder Allegra Klein has returned from Erbil, Iraq, following her participation in a landmark event--The National Unity Performing Arts Academy. The free Academy--the first project of its kind in the history of Iraq--created an oasis of artistic expression for over 300 of the country's aspiring performers. It was, says Klein, “perhaps the most rewarding and gratifying experience of my life."

Klein, a violinist, educator and arts administrator, represented Musicians For Harmony (and New York) by providing instruction ...

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American Voices Succeeds in Ambitious Effort to Bring Free Arts Academy to Iraq

Source: Seth Cohen PR
August 15, 2007

ABC WORLD NEWS TONIGHT Praises Historic Event as a 'Symphony of Hope' American Voices has succeeded in its extraordinary effort to bring cultural diplomacy to Iraq, in the form of The National Unity Performing and Visual Arts Academy. In a bold, joint effort with the U.S. Embassy, the non-profit organization American Voices created an oasis of artistic expression for over 300 aspiring Iraqi artists. The city of Erbil was infused with the excitement and passion for the performing arts for ...

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