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Music Education Monday: Arranging 101
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Jazz may be known as an improvisational art form, but any time more than a couple of jazz musicians get together, there may be some sort of arranging involved, too. So, for this week's “Music Education Monday," we've got links to free online materials that will provide you autodidacts out there with some information on how to write arrangements for a jazz ensemble. For starters, check out the “Basics of Horn Arranging" from HornArrangements.com, which is oriented mostly toward writing ...
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New England Conservatory Artist In Residence: Jerry Bergonzi
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Ann Braithwaite
Jerry Bergonzi knows all about the struggles that used to face aspiring jazz musicians. The Boston native withdrew from the liberal arts college he was attending after being continually thrown out of practice rooms “so somebody serious about music” could use the space. The young saxophonist also found that many veterans of the period were not inclined to mentor newcomers. “Back then, if somebody knew, they weren’t going to tell you,” he recalls. “`Learn tunes’ and `listen to records’ was ...
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Music Education Monday: Saxophone master classes with Greg Osby
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's “Music Education Monday," we've got some ideas and information for saxophonists in both video and audio form, courtesy of St. Louis native Greg Osby. Osby, now 54 years old, attended Howard University and Berklee. Moving to NYC, in the early years of his career he performed and/or recorded with many jazz greats active in the 1980s, including Jack DeJohnette, Jim Hall, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, and many more. Osby also worked closely fellow alto saxophonist Steve Coleman ...
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Dominique Eade on Teaching at New England Conservatory
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Ann Braithwaite
Dominique Eade knows the value of an open-minded teacher first hand. Eade’s creativity had found diverse outlets as a child, including guitar playing (“I was a pretty good finger- picker”) and songwriting, and as an English major at Vassar she would often supplement her assignments with poems and songs. “I was doing music constantly, but was mostly self-taught, and never thought of it as a career choice,” she recalls. “After I wrote a piano piece, `Bottom’s Dream,’ as part of ...
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New England Conservatory Artist in Residence: Dave Holland
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Ann Braithwaite
If you see NEC Artist in Residence Dave Holland in performance these days he will most likely be found either in duet with pianist Kenny Barron or amidst his newly assembled quartet Prism. These are particularly exciting projects, as the bassist and Barron have only collaborated a handful of times in the past, while Prism is a true all-star assemblage completed by guitarist Kevin Eubanks, pianist and keyboard player Craig Taborn and drummer Eric Harland. They do not, however, signify ...
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New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab with Miguel Zenon
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Ann Braithwaite
One-Week Intensive Jazz Program for Students Ages 14-18 Sunday, June 21 – Friday, June 26, 2015 Special Guest Artists MacArthur Fellow and Grammy Nominee Miguel Zenón plus NEC Jazz Studies Chair Ken Schaphorst headline the week holding masterclasses paired with evening concerts of their music Students ages 14-18 are invited to explore jazz at New England Conservatory during Jazz Lab, a one-week intensive program for students of all proficiency levels, from throughout the United States and abroad. Instrumentalists and vocalists ...
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Music Education Monday: Inside the musical mind of Bill Evans
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Since today marks 56 years to the day since Miles Davis began recording his landmark album Kind of Blue, for this week's “Music Education Monday" let's take a closer look at one of the musicians who played a key role in those sessions. Bill Evans was the pianist in what's often called Davis “first great quintet," and his lyrical piano style, and the way it meshes with Davis' concept of modal jazz, is a distinctive feature of Kind of Blue. ...
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Brain Benefits: How Learning Music is Instrumental in Children's Brain Development
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HypeBot
Music provides many benefits to your overall well-being. It can give you that extra boost in the morning to get the day started. It can relax you at the end of a long day. It can set the mood for your next party or help you get through your next breakup. But how does music impact children? Dixie Somers explains in this article how learning music as a child can be a vital part of their brain development. Learning music at an ...
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