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The Newport Jazz Festival - Fifty Years and Going Strong

Source: All About Jazz
March 15, 2005

The Newport Jazz Festival  Fifty Years and Going Strong -- Tuesdays 7-9 pm Tony Agostinelli will offer a course at the Brown Learning Community about the Newport Jazz Festival. The course will take place on Tuesdays, from 7-9 pm on April 5, 12, 19 & 26, 2005. This past summer the Newport Jazz Festival celebrated its fiftieth birthday. Although now recognized as an institution of immeasurable influence and international reach at inception in July 1954, the now-venerable event was ...

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VCU School of the Arts Receives Landmark Gift for Jazz Studies Program

Source: All About Jazz
March 9, 2005

Richmond, Virginia -- Virginia Commonwealth University announces a new $1 million commitment to the VCU School of the Arts Jazz Studies program from W. E. Singleton, prominent Richmond, Virginia, philanthropist and jazz enthusiast, and his wife, Dale Harman Singleton. The gift is made in memory of their long-time friend, jazz pianist James W. Black, for whom the VCU Music Center building on Grove Avenue will be renamed.

W. E. Singleton is now a $3 million investor in VCU Jazz. His ...

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Tierney Sutton Band Master Class for Singers - 3/17/05 (NYC)

Source: All About Jazz
March 8, 2005

Jazz vocalist Tierney Sutton and her band will be conducting a jazz vocal Master Class during her engagement this month at the Oak Room at the Algonquin in New York City.

An active jazz educator, Tierney heads the Jazz Vocal department at the University of Southern California. Her band features world-class pianist Christian Jacob, Kevin Axt on bass, and Ray Brinker on drums. She and her band have been playing together for over ten years, and have produced 5 five ...

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SFJAZZ Collective at the Jazzschool, Berkeley March 10, 2-4PM

Source: All About Jazz
March 7, 2005

“Meet the Masters" workshop with the SFJAZZ Collective. SFJAZZ in association with the Jazzschool presents a “Meet the Masters" workshop for musicians with the SFJAZZ Collective. Open to serious musicians and students of jazz, this hands-on “informance" includes demonstration and discussion. Seating is limited; reservations are highly recommended. Thursday, March 10, 2-4pm $20 general admission The SFJAZZ Collective is a resident ensemble of SFJAZZ, the San Francisco Jazz Organization. The SFJAZZ Collective features: Bobby Hutcherson, vibraphone/marimba; ...

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Study: Few Women Perform With Instrumental Jazz Ensembles

Source: All About Jazz
March 1, 2005

March 1, 2005 -- Music education teachers need to make their female musicians aware that participation in instrumental jazz ensembles is critical to their marketability, according to a University of Wyoming Department of Music researcher. A study by Kathleen McKeage, a senior lecturer who has played the bass professionally since she was 16 years old, verifies what educators, parents and students intuitively already know -- when people attend college or professional jazz band concerts, they see few female musicians. Although ...

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Music Works Northwest Announces Workshop with Seattle Women's Jazz Orchestra

Source: All About Jazz
February 27, 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 18, 2005 Pull Date: February 28, 2005 Contact: Joanne Lauterjung Kelly (425) 644-0988, x.102 Contemporary Big Band Jazz: A Workshop with the Seattle Women’s Jazz Orchestra Saturday, March 19, 2005 2:00 – 5:00 p.m. Music Works Northwest, Studio A Bellevue, Washington How many female jazz instrumentalists have you ever seen? Exactly. Not ...

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IAJE 2005 Photos from Dr. Jazz!

Source: All About Jazz
February 25, 2005

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Object : Seminar WE LOVE JAZZ 2005 - 4th Ronciglione Jazz Festival

Source: All About Jazz
February 14, 2005

DISCOUNT FOR EVERYBODY BOOK BEFORE THE 28th/02/2005. WE LOVE JAZZ 2005 Info +39-338/6642749 email [email protected] The seminars will take place from the 04th/07 to the 09th/07 2005 in the extraordinary setting of the historical gardens of Villa Lina estate (www.villalina.com). They will take place in the morning and in afternoon with instrument, ensemble music, theory and harmony lessons. It’s open to everybody would like to get a deeper knowledge of technic of one or more instruments ...

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