Education News

Victor Bailey Conducts Clinic Crafters Masterclass at Blue Note March 19

Source: All About Jazz
February 13, 2005

"Let your talent hit the rafters...get yourself to Clinic Crafters." - Jim Hall

From the audience, a great performance comes across like a seamless miracle. If you could get the performer's commentary on what he does, though, you'd learn that each combines theory, technique and tricks of the trade with his talent in a totally individual way - and that's what students and fans have the opportunity to discover in an intimate series of workshops scheduled at Blue Note, 131 ...

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Celebrated Jazz Bassist, Composer, Bandleader Dave Holland Named Visiting Artist-in-Residence at New England Conservatory

Source: All About Jazz
February 11, 2005

Jazz great Dave Holland has returned to New England Conservatory in a new capacity-as Visiting Artist-in-Residence. The bassist, bandleader and composer, who was a full-time member of the NEC faculty from 1987 to 1990 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2003, is currently in town leading a four-day residency including masterclasses, rehearsals, coaching and a concert. Under terms of the new relationship, he will conduct two such residencies each year, one in the fall semester and one in the ...

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Auditions For The New Music Program At UMass Dartmouth

Source: All About Jazz
February 2, 2005

The Music Department at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth announces the following dates for auditions of prospective students of all instruments and voice: Thursday, February 3, 2005, 5 PM, Friday, Feburay 4, 5 PM, Saturday February 6, 10 am, Saturday, February 26, 10 am, Saturday, March 5, 10 am. In special cases, additional appointments will be made available. The auditions will be held at the UMass Dartmouth campus, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747, Building Group VI. Applications ...

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Jazz Bassist and Composer Dave Holland to Coach, Perform with NEC Students in Residency, February 7-10, 2005

Source: All About Jazz
January 18, 2005

Visit Sponsored by NEC Board of Visitors Member and Fellow Bassist Jimmy Earl

Dave Holland, celebrated jazz bassist, band leader, and composer, will return to New England Conservatory as guest composer, performer and teacher in a four-day residency, February 7-10, 2005. Holland, who was a full-time member of the NEC faculty from 1987 to 1990 and was awarded an honorary degree in 2003, will rehearse his music with three student ensembles, give two master classes, and perform with students. The ...

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Easter Jazz Course

Source: All About Jazz
January 16, 2005

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Jazz/funk Group Magnets! in Residence at Reed College, Portland, Oregon

Source: All About Jazz
January 10, 2005

Bi- Coastal jazz/funk 4tet Magnets! will do a Residency at Reed College in Portland, Oregon this month. Magnets! , which is a co-op group featuring saxophonist Rob Scheps, drummer Ronnie Burrage and bassist Kim Clarke , will teach afternoon workshops on January 19,20 & 21 in the Prexy Music Building at Reed - students will have the opportunity to learn Magnets! original compositions from the composers themselves. The Residency will culminate in a concert Saturday night, January 22nd at 9 ...

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NEA Launches Jazz in the Schools

Source: All About Jazz
January 9, 2005

Long Beach, CA - The National Endowment for the Arts today announced the launch of NEA Jazz in the Schools, an educational resource for high school teachers of social studies, U.S. history, and music. The five-unit, web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit explores jazz as an indigenous American art form and as a means to understand American history. The curriculum is produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center, a not-for-profit arts organization dedicated to jazz, and supported by a $100,000 grant from ...

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Save the Jazz Museum in Harlem

Source: All About Jazz
January 5, 2005

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