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Music Education Monday: Electronic music production tips, plus a keyboard workshop with Richard Tee
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for “Music Education Monday," we've got some new info on electronic music production techniques, and a classic video workshop with a top session keyboardist: Ableton, makers of the popular Ableton Live software used for electronic music production, has put online a good-sized chunk of the new book Making Music: Creative Strategies for Electronic Music Producers, which purports to offer “a collection of solutions to common roadblocks in the creative process, with a specific emphasis on solving musical problems, ...
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New England Conservatory Faculty Profile: Jason Moran
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Ann Braithwaite
“There should be a class simply on application,” Jason Moran emphasizes to his NEC Master Class, explaining that he means a focus on “how to deal with ideas that don’t seem to belong to your discipline.” Moran’s own career as one of the preeminent pianists, composers and bandleaders in jazz might form the core of an Application curriculum. References to visual art have been present from his first CD, all of his recordings and large performance pieces incorporate spoken word ...
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A College Professor Describes How His Student’s Music Listening Habits Have Shifted
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According to professor Aram Sinnreich, author of the 2013 book The Piracy Crusade: How the Music Industry’s War on Sharing Destroys Markets and Erodes Civil Liberties, college students have changed significantly in their music listening habits and overall musical tastes over the last decade, in part due to market forces and technological innovations. Ten years ago, undergrads typically had a CD collection, perhaps supplemented by a computer hard drive full of MP3 files downloaded from a file-sharing service and listened to ...
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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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