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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.
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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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Julio Iglesias, Doug Morris, Harvey Mason, Dee Dee Bridgewater To Receive Honorary Degrees At Berklee Commencement May 9
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music president Roger H. Brown will present Julio Iglesias, Doug Morris, Harvey Mason, and Dee Dee Bridgewater with honorary doctor of music degrees at Berklee's commencement ceremony, Saturday, May 9, at the 7,000-seat Agganis Arena at Boston University. More than 900 Berklee graduates, their parents, and invited guests will be in attendance. This year's honorary doctorate recipients are being recognized for their achievements and influences in music, and for their enduring contributions to American and international culture. ...
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Music Education Monday: Jazz piano lessons from Mike Wolff and Barry Harris
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Today for “Music Education Monday," we've got some video lessons that nominally are intended for jazz pianists, but also contain information that may be of interest to jazz improvisors in general. Pianist Michael Wolff is know for his early work with Cal Tjader, Cannonball Adderly and Nancy Wilson, for leading the house band on the original Arsenio Hall Show in the 1990s, and more recently, for film scoring work and collaborations including the Wolff & Clark Expedition with former Headhunters ...
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Music Education Monday: John Abercrombie on jazz guitar improvisation
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While guitarist John Abercrombie was in St. Louis last week to lead his quartet in a sold-out performance for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, he and pianist Marc Copland also did an afternoon master class on the Wash U campus. Fortunately for those who missed out, a while back Abercrombie recorded an instructional video for Homespun Tapes about his concepts for jazz guitar improvisation. That video has found its way onto YouTube and can be seen in ...
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An MIT Media Lab For Music Business Students
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HypeBot
Imagine a lab where college students would be challenged to envision and create the future of music. At any given time, there would be dozens of music-focused research studies, startup ventures, emerging technologies, and innovative projects that students could assist for a single semester or an entire year. Picture a classroom where students would be taught how to ask music consumers thoughtful questions and elicit meaningful answers in order to create a product that aligns with their needs. They might ...
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Music Education Monday: Sound system basics
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
While sound reinforcement is a complex and changing field even for full-time professionals, every working musician can benefit from a basic knowledge of how sound systems work and how to set up and operate a simple PA (public address) system. So for this week's “Music Education Monday," here are some links to free resources on the web that provide useful and relatively concise introductory material on the topic: From Live Systems, a sound contractor in the UK, here's a primer ...
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