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Music Education Monday: Master classes with Wynton Marsalis
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Wynton Marsalis is known not only as a trumpet player, composer, and bandleader, but also as a strong advocate for jazz education. As the artistic head of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Marsalis (pictured) has overseen the development of a number of educational programs for the institution, but he also gets involved personally in teaching when the opportunity arises. And so, for today's installment of Music Education Monday, here's a chance to check out videos of a couple of master classes ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with trombonist Bill Watrous
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Education Monday, it's a master class from trombonist Bill Watrous. Beginning his career in the early 1960s, Watrous has played and recorded with musicians such as Maynard Ferguson, Woody Herman, Kai Winding, and Quincy Jones, as well as leading his own big band, originally known as the Manhattan Wildlife Refuge, and later renamed Refuge West when Watrous relocated to Los Angeles. Acclaimed among fellow trombonists for his range, tone, and fluid technique, Watrous also is a ...
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Music Education Monday: Saxophone workshops with Dave Liebman and Bill Evans
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
With the unveiling of the Miles Davis statue in Alton set for this Saturday, today's Music Education Monday offers an opportunity to hear from a couple of his former sidemen, the saxophonists Dave Liebman and Bill Evans. In addition to playing with Davis at the turn of the 1970s, Liebman also had a notable stint early in his career with drummer Elvin Jones' group. In the ensuing decade, he's performed all around the world and appeared on hundreds of recordings, ...
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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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