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Music Education Monday: Free Play-Along recordings, and a free class from Gary Burton
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
It's time for another “Music Education Monday," the feature in which each week, we point to resources on the web that may be of particular interest to musicians, music students, and/or anyone who wants to understand the process of playing jazz. This week, we spotlight a couple of links related to improvisation, starting with a page from the National Jazz Workshop offering a set of free play-along recordings in MP3 format. The NJW is a summer camp held on the ...
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SFJAZZ High School All Stars Alumni Aaron Bahr Wins First Hut Foundation Alumni Commission Award
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Marshall Lamm
SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Alumnus and trumpeter Aaron Bahr received the first HUT Foundation Alumni Commission Award. Bahr’s composition “Kenny’s Song” won the award along with a $1,000 check presented to him by saxophonist Ravi Coltrane at the SFJAZZ Center on Sunday, December 14 during the organization’s weeklong A Love Supreme 50th Anniversary celebration. In Spring 2015, the High School All-Stars Orchestra will perform Aaron's composition. SFJAZZ and the HUT Foundation invited former High School All-Stars to submit original works ...
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Entertainment Lawyer Joel Katz Joins Berklee College Of Music Board Of Trustees
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music has named Joel Katz, a leader in the field of entertainment law, to its board of trustees. Katz is former Chairman of the American Bar Association’s Entertainment & Sports Law Section. His clients are some of the world’s most well-known entertainers, producers, record labels, concert promoters and Fortune 500 companies, including Kenny Chesney, Julio Iglesias, Willie Nelson, Ludacris, Michael Jackson’s estate, the Country Music Association, Dick Clark Productions, and the National Academy of Recording Arts & ...
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The Grammy Museum At L.a. Live And Berklee College Of Music Announce Affiliate Partnership
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Berklee Media Relations
The GRAMMY Museum at L.A. LIVE announced that Berklee College of Music has been named an official university affiliate, giving Berklee access to GRAMMY Museum content for educational purposes, curriculum resources, research programs, internship opportunities, professional development seminars, collaborative marketing and promotions, project- based learning and more. “With the GRAMMY Museum’s university affiliate program, we’re inviting educational institutions to engage in a unique resource-sharing opportunity,” said Bob Santelli, executive director of The GRAMMY Museum. “Our partnership with Berklee was a ...
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Music Education Monday: Electronic Music History, and a Clark Terry Master Class
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This week for Music Ed Monday, we've got some resources on the history of electronic music, and a video master class with a jazz trumpet great... Electronic music may seem like the most futuristic genre of them all, but it's been around for more than a century. To learn more about what's gone before, start with the “Electonic Music Historical Overview," a one-page timeline from Indiana University that lays out the basics. From there, the site 120 Years of Electronic ...
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Wynton Marsalis Leads Juilliard’s Jazz Program
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Michael Ricci
By Peter Monaghan Wynton Marsalis, the trumpeter, has a new role that is likely to expand his influence on the direction and public perception of jazz: director of the jazz-studies program at Juilliard School of Music. In July Mr. Marsalis replaced Carl Allen, a drummer, as leader of the program at his alma mater. His appointment marked the fruition of a long association, says Joseph W. Polisi, Juilliard's president since 1984. He says that he and Mr. Marsalis, “one of ...
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Google Brings Music-Focused Youtube+ Workshops to Nashville
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HypeBot
Google is planning a series of free, open workshops for folks in Nashville. They'll be focusing on music and helping those who haven't embraced the Google empire do so with a greater likelihood of success. For most participants YouTube will be the big area of interest but Google will also provide experts covering such areas as integrating with “Google+, audience development and music publishing." The report that Google is doing a year of workshops for musicians should be good news ...
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Celebrated Jazz Vocalist, Al Jarreau, To Share His Craft With Young Artists
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Brianna Taylor
This October, up-and-coming vocalists from three Philadelphia high schools will experience an infusion of artistic excellence and mentorship during a three-day master class with jazz great, Al Jarreau, thanks to the work of The Mann Center for the Performing Arts. From October 14 to 16, Jarreau and three teaching artists, including Marc Johnson, Michal Beckman and Sherry Butler, will lead an intensive master class with selected vocal students from The Creative Arts Morgan Village Academy in Camden, the Girard Academic ...
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