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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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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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