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Learn Jazz Piano Online With PianoGroove’s Innovative Tuition Platform
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Hayden Hill
2016 has marked the launch of online jazz piano tuition platform PianoGroove. The company, created by Nottingham Business School graduate Hayden Hill, provides jazz piano tuition for amateur pianists using a three-part video layout that combines an overhead camera shot, a synchronised light-up keyboard and in-video notation. “My aim is to make high-quality jazz piano tuition accessible to anyone, anywhere in the world,” comments PianoGroove’s Founder Hayden Hill. “I took an interest in jazz as a teenager but couldn't find ...
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The Best 2016 Jazz Summer Program: 12 Workshops + 24 Teachers + 120 Musicians + 42 Days Of Music; It's All Happening At The New York Jazz Workshop
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Marco Chelo
From July 18th to August 28th, in the heart of Times Square, the New York Jazz Workshop's 8th summer series will feature the whos who of jazz music with Alan Ferber , Amina Figarova, Ari Hoenig, Chris Washburne, Dan Weiss, Dave Liebman, Dave Scott, Fay Victor, Frank Kimbrough, Jacob Sacks, Jocelyn Medina, John O’Gallagher, Kenny Wessel, Marc Mommaas, Olivia Foschi, Richard Boukas, Ron Horton, Scott Robinson, Tim Horner, Tony Moreno, Vic Juris and many more. “Yeah, we feel pretty good ...
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Music Education Monday: Workshops with saxophonist Steve Coleman
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Though he doesn't categorize his music as “jazz," Steve Coleman has been a significant player on the contemporary improvised music scene since the 1980s as a saxophonist, composer, bandleader, and educator. A 2014 recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship (aka “the genius grant"), Coleman (pictured) is a 59-year-old Chicago native who's been called “one of the most rigorously conceptual thinkers in improvised music" by the New York Times. He's noted particularly as one of the originators and chief promulgator of M-BASE, ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with pianist Bill Charlap
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Bill Charlap has won wide acclaim as one of the most accomplished and tasteful pianists of his generation. Charlap who turns 50 this year, has recorded seven albums as a leader or co-leader for the Blue Note label, including two Grammy-nominated CDs. He also was a member of Blue Note Seven, the all-star group assembled in 2008 to mark the label's 70th anniversary, and as a sideman has performed or recorded with many well-known singers and musicians, including Tony Bennett, ...
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Getting Into Jazz, Part 1
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Yesterday I received an email from a friend of a reader who said he was interested in listening to jazz but wasn't quite sure how to approach the music or the history. To this person, jazz seemed tremendously exciting but overwhelming in terms of where to start. Rather than respond in detail, I told the writer I'd post today on the subject, since I've received many emails recently with similar pleas for jazz help. So I'm going to make this ...
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Music Education Monday: Learning jazz violin with Christian Howes, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Although there have been jazz violinists ever since the music began, formal jazz education programs in schools usually are set up to cater mostly to trumpets, trombones, saxophones and rhythm sections, leaving many aspiring string improvisors to forge their own musical paths. Fortunately, there seem to be plenty of instructional materials available to help chart that pathway, both for purchase and for free online. And since pointing out free music education resources available on the internet is the stated premise ...
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Music Education Monday: A workshop with saxophonist Dewey Redman
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for Music Education Monday, you can take in a workshop with saxophonist Dewey Redman, the late Texas tenor man known for his big, bluesy tone, his associations with Ornette Coleman and Keith Jarrett, and these days, for being the father of saxophonist Joshua Redman. The elder Redman, who died in 2006, was born in 1931 in Fort Worth and went to high school with Ornette Coleman, forming a friendship that would last a lifetime. He played in Coleman's band ...
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Berklee College Of Music, Boston Conservatory To Merge
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HypeBot
Two of arts and music education's most iconic institutions, The Berklee College Of Music and The Boston Conservatory have agreed to merge to create a comprehensive training ground for music, dance, theater and related professions. The combined institution, located in Boston’s historic Back Bay and Fenway neighborhoods, will be known as “Berklee,” with the Conservatory becoming “The Boston Conservatory at Berklee." The strategic underpinning of the merger is the belief that music, movement, and digital technology are converging to give ...
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