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Music Education Monday: Exploring world music
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The phrase “world music" may be problematic, most notably in its lack of specificity in lumping together a whole bunch of unrelated non-Western musical traditions and concepts, but it's also a useful reminder for musicians that there are a lot of sounds out there beyond what gets covered in a traditional conservatory education or bandstand apprenticeship here in the USA. Moreover, since jazz tends to absorb influences from whatever it rubs up against, jazz musicians in particular may benefit from ...
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Music Education Monday: New Orleans piano with Jon Cleary and Tom McDermott
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Given that old adage about converts being the most zealous believers, perhaps it should come as no surprise that two of the most prominent current custodians of the New Orleans piano tradition are transplants to the city. Jon Cleary originally from is England, while Tom McDermott is from right here in St. Louis, but both have made New Orleans their home and have immersed themselves in the history and practice of the city's indigenous music. For today's Music Education Monday, ...
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Berklee Students Bring Music Therapy And Jazz Workshops To Panama And Perform With Wayne Shorter
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Margot Edwards
Danilo Perez, president of the Danilo Pérez Foundation and artistic director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), and Patricia Zarate, executive director of Panama Jazz Productions and founder of the Latin American Music Therapy Symposium, are bringing students from the BGJI and Berklee’s music therapy program to Panama City, Panama, to work with the Foundation and other local organizations, August 17-21. Through a series of workshops, clinics and music therapy services, the students aim to empower the community to ...
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Music Education Monday: Drum clinics with Greg Hutchinson and Ralph Humphrey
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As one of the top schools for jazz, Berklee College of Music in Boston benefits from a a steady supply of working professional musicians visiting campus to augment the instruction provided by permanent faculty. For this week's Music Education Monday, you can check out some of that extra instruction provided to Berklee percussion students, as we look in via video on drum clinics presented there by the well-known drummers Gregory Hutchinson and Ralph Humphrey. A native New Yorker, Hutchinson emerged ...
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Music Education Monday: Master classes with saxophonist Ernie Watts
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's Music Education Monday, you can take in a couple of master classes on video from the veteran saxophonist Ernie Watts. In addition to his own recordings as a leader, Watts (pictured) has played with an exceptional range of jazz, rock and soul musicians and groups, including Buddy Rich, Bobby Hutcherson, Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show band, bassist Charlie Haden's Quartet West, Marvin Gaye, the Rolling Stones, and many more. He last performed in St. Louis with ...
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Music Education Monday: Standard tunes every jazz musician should know
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
If you spend any time at all around jazz as either a musician or a listener, it won't be long before you read something or hear someone discussing “jazz standards" or just “standards." Which in turn may prompt one to ask, what is a standard, and why are they important? Simply put, a “standard" is a composition that gets played, recorded and/or requested frequently enough that professional musicians are expected to know it, preferably by memory. A standard may have ...
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Creative Music Studio Announces Fall Workshop, October 5-9, 2015
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Creative Music Foundation
Composer/multi-instrumentalist and Creative Music Studio alumnus Peter Apfelbaum, master percussionist/educator Billy Martin, and composer/saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will join CMS Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the Creative Music Studio Fall 2015 Workshop Intensive, October 5-9, at the ear-inspiring Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. CMS’s Fall 2015 Workshop features a format designed to create ample opportunities for participants and Guiding Artists to interact directly, both formally and informally. This workshop, during the height of ...
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4 Lies They Taught You In Music School
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HypeBot
While a college education theoretically prepares one for life in the real world, the reality is often quite different. Here are a few misconceptions that recent college grads may have picked up during their academic tenure. Guest Post by Christine Occhino on Sonicbids.com If you're fortunate enough to have been able to go to an accredited music school, then you know that not everything you're told during your time there is true. And moreover, you know how annoying it is to ...
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