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Litchfield Jazz Camp Registration Now Open!
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Albert Rivera
Celebrate 18 years of Litchfield Jazz Camp at our new location, Canterbury School in New Milford, CT. Register by next Saturday, February 8 to get a special EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT. Sibling, loyalty and full combo discounts available too. Music Director Don Braden and Director of Operations Albert Rivera lead a star studded faculty through out the summer which include Matt Wilson, Charli Persip, Zaccai Curtis, Luques Curtis, Claudio Roditi, Helen Sung, Mike DiRubbo, Jimmy Greene, Dave Stryker and many more! ...
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Berklee Student To Perform With Carole King At MusiCares Person Of The Year Ceremony In King’s Honor
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Berklee Media Relations
When multi-GRAMMY winner Carole King takes the stage at the MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony in her honor, she will be accompanied on one song by Berklee College of Music student Ahmad El Haggar from Egypt. They will perform a Middle Eastern-style version of the music legend’s song “Home Again.” The new arrangement was written in collaboration with 25 year-old El Haggar specifically for the event. The MusiCares Person of the Year ceremony—Friday, January 24, 2014, in Los Angeles—is ...
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Johnny Carisi: Jazz Workshop
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Some of the smartest and most innovative East Coast jazz recordings made in the mid-1950s were for RCA's short-lived Jazz Workshop series. They albums were recorded just as the 10-inch LP began to fade and were replaced by 12-inch discs. The larger album had been used for classical music since 1948, when the LP was first introduced by Columbia. Classical music required more vinyl to accommodate symphonies and operas, and classical buyers tended to have more money and could afford ...
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Herbie Hancock Appointed 2014 Norton Professor Of Poetry At Harvard
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Muse Media
“I’ve uncovered practical lessons and learned that the essential values in jazz and the values of Buddhism are harmonious and apply to my life on every level. Throughout my lectures, I will be interweaving and connecting these ideas.” — Herbie Hancock Los Angeles, California and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Always at the forefront of world culture, technology, business and music, legendary pianist and composer Herbie Hancock has been named the 2014 Charles Eliot Norton Professor Of Poetry at Harvard University. Hancock will ...
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Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Series To Feature Master Blues Guitarist Sean Carney
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Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH - International Blues Challenge (IBC) winner and Albert King Best Guitarist Award-winner Sean Carney returns to the Lincoln Theatre on January 11, 2014 for a blues-rockin’ PBJ & Jazz concert presented by the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this year’s season will continue to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. A one-man ambassador for the blues, Columbus, OH native Sean Carney has ...
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The Toughest High School Jazz Competition Goes National
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GNUStar - Talent Services Division
Orlando, FL - “It’s the only talent competition of its kind in North America,” Jeff Rupert, Director of Jazz Studies at the University of Central Florida (UCF) said Monday. Five* of the nation’s best high school age Jazz musicians will come to Orlando in March, 2014, to perform with the UCF All-Star High School Jazztet, that will open for the headliners on the opening night of the UCF Orlando Jazz Festival 2014. Most state and national high school Jazz competitions ...
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Berklee Student Usman Riaz Is Youngest Ted Senior Fellow Ever Selected
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Berklee Media Relations
Pakistani phenom used internet to teach himself guitar, harmonica, percussion, composition, filmmaking, and more Boston, MA – Berklee student Usman Riaz has been named one of 12 TED senior fellows who will present at the next four TED conferences starting in 2014. At 22, the Pakistani composer, multi-instrumentalist, and filmmaker is the youngest TED senior fellow ever selected. Born in Karachi, Pakistan, Riaz was classically trained on the piano at age six, but as he got older he wanted to ...
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Berklee Presents Its First-ever Spanish Language Program, January 13-18 In Mexico City
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Berklee Media Relations
Berklee College of Music presents Berklee Latino, the college’s first-ever program to be taught in Spanish. The program, a series of lectures and master classes, will be held January 13-18, 2014, at the Mexico City campus of Tec de Monterrey. The deadline to apply for Berklee Latino is Monday, December 16. Visit Berklee.edu/latino for more information and to apply. Berklee Latino will be led by Grammy and Latin Grammy Award-winning producer Javier Limón (Diego El Cigala and Bebo Valdés, Paco ...
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