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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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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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