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Music Education Monday: Books, Both Fake And Real
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
For this week's “Music Education Monday," it's part two of a look at free sheet music resources available online, this week concentrating on fake books. First, a bit of background: A fake book is a collection of sheet music for well-known tunes, usually formatted with one song per page using only chord symbols, a written-out melody line, and lyrics (if the song has them). The idea is that with these raw materials, an experienced musician doesn't need a full, written-out ...
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San Jose Jazz: Making kids smarter through music
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Michael Ricci
By Joe Rodriguez “I liked the way the trombone sounded," said Ayoko, who is now 12. His friend Jaime, 11, had hoped for a saxophone but settled for a clarinet. “They said it was free, so why not?" The musical notes that day in Santee Elementary School's echo-prone, combined cafeteria and auditorium penetrated deep enough to capture the interest of the two boys at the high-poverty school, and dozens more students like them at the forefront of a revival in ...
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Miguel Zenón On Teaching At New England Conservatory
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Ann Braithwaite
Miguel Zenón, the alto saxophonist and composer who has blended jazz and the music of his native Puerto Rico into one of the most passionate and coherent forms of contemporary expression, exemplifies the new possibilities that jazz envisions in the 21st century. His triumphs of the past decade, at the head of his own quartet and as a founding and ongoing member of the SFJazz Collective, have inspired Zenón to continue pushing creative boundaries. Identities are Changeable is the most ...
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Berklee Names Jane Mendillo, Former President And CEO Of Harvard Management Company, To Board Of Trustees
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music has named Jane Mendillo to its board of trustees. Mendillo is the former president and CEO of Harvard Management Company (HMC), which manages Harvard University’s endowment and related financial assets. Mendillo had worked at HMC for 15 years earlier in her career and returned after serving six years as chief investment officer at Wellesley College, where she built the college’s first investment office and restructured its portfolio. Upon rejoining HMC in 2008, she reoriented and grew ...
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New England Conservatory Faculty Profile: Fred Hersch
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Fred Hersch has much to look forward to in his immediate future, including the premiere of a new extended composition and a variety of performances in the diverse solo and small-ensemble settings that have made him one of the major contemporary voices in jazz piano. Yet 2015 looms large in his mind for another reason. “It will be my 40th anniversary of association with NEC,” he notes with pride. “I arrived in 1975, graduated in 1977, and took over teaching ...
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Music Education Monday: A jazz guitar master class with Jim Hall
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week's for “Music Education Monday," here's a master class in jazz guitar with the late Jim Hall. Recorded in 2011, the three parts of Hall's workshop and performance seen in the video windows embedded below after the jump total just over three hours of material. Hall, who died in 2013, first gained public attention in the mid-1950s with drummer Chico Hamilton's quintet, and went on to play with many important jazz performers of his generation, notably Jimmy Giuffre, Paul ...
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Usdan - 1/25 Free Open House $100 "Early Bird" Discount
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts camp whose Jazz Department was created by Dr. Billy Taylor, will hold a free Open House on Sunday January 25 from 11 AM to 2 PM for its 48th, 2015 season. For more information, call (631) 643-7900, write to [email protected], or visit usdan.com. Artists who have performed and taught at Usdan include Jimmy Heath, Usdan alumna Jane Monheit, Arturo O'Farrill, Jon Faddis, Bobby Watson, Ted Rosenthal and ...
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Hancock rouses Jazz Network crowd
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Michael Ricci
The legendary musician delivered an inspiring keynote address at the national conference, which continues in San Diego through Saturday Lamenting the decline in arts funding at U.S. public schools as “a national disgrace,” music legend Herbie Hancock electrified a capacity audience of more than 1,600 during his keynote address Thursday at the 6th annual National Jazz Education Network conference “Can you even imagine our existence without the arts?” he asked during his speech at downtown’s Manchester Grand Hyatt, where the ...
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