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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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Usdan Center - 5/17 Final Open House - Full Jazz Program
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally acclaimed summer arts day camp whose alumni include Jane Monheit, and whose Jazz Department was created by Dr. Billy Taylor, will hold its final Open House for the 2015, 48th season on Sunday May 17 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Center will feature new program options that will add breadth to Usdan’s renowned offerings, while new calendar options will accommodate more family summer plans.
In addition, Usdan ...
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Music Education Monday: Still all about that bass (with Ray Brown and Milt Hinton)
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
As yr. humble editor is not one to leave any good material unused, or any bad pun or pop culture reference unmade - at least of couple times - today's “Music Education Monday" post is a sequel to last December's “All About That Bass", featuring a few more bass-related links and video clips that turned up during the info-gathering for that post. Keeping in mind that the general criteria here is “music instructional materials available for free on the internet," ...
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Moers Residency a Good Fit for Hayden Chisholm
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All About Jazz
By Phillip Woolever With theatrical drama, dynamic performing colleagues and a flair for winding wind and wordplay, Hayden Chisholm, this year's Improviser in Residency, adds a unique dimension to his twelve-month tenure at Moers 2015. The Moers residency was initiated as part of the festival's cultural, community commitment. Despite some recent cutbacks, Moers has expanded overall and has been able continue with some valuable aspects of an “avant" program, bringing local citizens closer to the artists than ...
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