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Music Education Monday: The Purdie Shuffle
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Sometimes StLJN's weekly “Music Education Monday" feature deals with broad topics, and sometimes, things get very specific - like today's video lesson from famed session drummer Bernard Purdie, which is all about how to play the beat known as the “Purdie Shuffle." Produced by Drumeo.com, the video shows Purdie himself explaining and demonstrating the distinctive half-time funk feel he played on Steely Dan's “Home at Last" and “Babylon Sisters," which since has been approximated or imitated on recordings by Toto, ...
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Music Education Monday: Master classes with pianists Chick Corea and Kenny Werner
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for “Music Education Monday," you can check out video master classes from a couple of prominent keyboardists. Chick Corea is one of the best-known pianists in jazz, having served his apprenticeship with Miles Davis and played free jazz with Circle before co-founding the seminal jazz-fusion band Return to Forever. His extensive catalog as a composer and bandleader includes recordings with various acoustic and electric groups and as a solo pianist, so his experience pretty much runs the gamut ...
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Music Education Monday: A drum lesson and conversation with Ginger Baker
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Ginger Baker established himself as a significant musical force while drumming with the 1960s power trio Cream, and over the ensuing decades has continued to impress rock, jazz and world music fans with his technique and imagination. On a personal level, one understandably might have some qualms about getting too close to the infamously irascible percussionist - the 2012 film Beware of Mr. Baker offers ample documentary evidence of his difficult personality - but given the safe distance provided via ...
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Terence Blanchard Named Visiting Scholar At Berklee College Of Music
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music has named world-renowned trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and Blue Note recording artist Terence Blanchard as a visiting scholar in the Jazz Composition department beginning in the fall of 2015. Blanchard will also work in the Film Scoring and Brass departments, and for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. “Coming to Berklee feels like I’m coming home. Even though I never went to Berklee, I hang out there a great deal and learn a lot from my friends who ...
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Hitting the jazz highway
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Ken Franckling's Jazz Notes
Building your jazz skills isn’t just about playing your instrument, singing your songs, developing your style and strengthening your improvisational skills. It’s also about dealing with challenges on the road, disruptive sleep patterns, and getting along with your band mates as you jump on the van and head to the next gig. Four students from the Boston-based Berklee College of Music will absorb a lot of that experience starting Thursday when they join trumpeter Ingrid Jensen on a five-date concert ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class in understanding audio formats
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's “Music Education Monday" explores a subject that's rather technical, but nevertheless of interest to any working musician who wants to distribute audio to the public. Engineer Andrew Scheps is a music industry veteran who has won two Grammys and logged credits working with major pop, rock and hip-hop acts including Adele, U2, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Black Sabbath, Jay-Z, and Metallica. Working with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, Scheps also has put together a presentation ...
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Doubling; A History (Of Sorts)
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
A recent discussion among jazz researchers centered on the evolution of instrumentation as big bands changed through the decades. The conversation developed into exchanges about not only the makeup of band sections—rhythm, brass and reeds—but also the matter of doubling, in which individual musicians played more than one instrument and sometimes several. In the 1920s and 1930s doubling was a requirement in many bands, among them Sam Gooding’s, Jean Goldkette's, Jimmy Lunceford's, Paul Whiteman's, Glen Gray’s Casa Loma Orchestra and, ...
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Music Education Monday: A master class with percussionist Milford Graves
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The week for “Music Education Monday," we've got a different kind of master class for drummers. While most drum workshops are full of talk of exercises, licks and rudiments, Milford Graves deals with concepts and philosophy as much as technique, as befits his status as one of the elder statesmen of free jazz drumming. First coming to prominence in the 1960s, Graves played with the New York Art Quartet, Jazz Composers' Orchestra Association, Albert Ayler, Don Pullen, and others important ...
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