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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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Music Education Monday: A master class with Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
In addition to being two of the top pianists in contemporary jazz, both Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer are past winners of much-coveted MacArthur Fellowships (aka “the genius grant"), and both have developed accompanying reputations as deep thinkers. For this week's “Music Education Monday," here's a small window into the minds of both men, via a video of a joint masterclass they did in September 2014 at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston. Moran is a member of ...
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5 Omissions From Berklee College/Rethink Music’s Report
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HypeBot
Berklee College of Music/Rethink-Music/Kobalt Music put out a report criticizing various rights/publishing organizations within the music industry for not providing artists with sufficient transparency or pay, although this article posits that the report should have delved deeper. Guest Post by David Lowery on TheTrichordist.com I love transparency. Last week Berklee College of Music/Rethink-Music/Kobalt Music released this report on transparency and fair pay in the music business. The report eviscerates the record labels, publishers, and performing rights organizations for failing to provide the proper ...
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The Mouthpiece Placement Question
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Steve Provizer’s comment about Bill Hardman’s off-center trumpet embouchure in last weekend’s Horace Silver video reminded me of other trumpeters with unconventional mouthpiece placement. There are many examples. Hardman’s, Jon Faddis’s and Ruby Braff’s mouthpieces go to the left, Louis Armstrong’s and Wild Bill Davison’s slightly to the right. In all cases, what comes out the other end of the horn is beautiful, leading to Steve’s conclusion that there are no rules. Here’s Wild Bill leading an All Star Band ...
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Music Education Monday: Vocal tips from Kurt Elling and Frank Sinatra, and more
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for “Music Education Monday," here are some free resources for aspiring jazz vocalists. If you're just getting started, the website JazzSingers.com offers a good overview of the history of jazz singing and its most important practitioners, and includes a lot of potentially useful links. For example, that's where yr. humble editor found the text for Tips On Popular Singing, a instructional book published in 1941 that's credited to none other than Frank Sinatra, “in collaboration with his vocal ...
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The Great Debate: Music Business Education [Steve Rennie]
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Over the course of my career I’ve been asked a million times, “What is the best way to learn the music business?” Answering that question has really become something of a mission for me over the last two and a half years. By Steve Rennie of Renman Music & Business Over the course of my career I’ve been asked a million times, “What is the best way to learn the music business?” Answering that question has really become something of a mission for me ...
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