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Philadelphia Jazz Project - Remember How It Started?
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Homer Jackson
Greetings folks, As a musician, someone introduced you to the music... to your instrument. Remember that moment? Remember that person? Remember how you felt? Now, suppose that it never happened! That's the kind of environment that increasing numbers of young people face living in within our communities. Schools are not really making that connection between musician and child possible anymore. Many communities aren't really making that connection happen either. Philadelphia Jazz Project in partnership with other organizations, including Philadelphia Parks ...
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Jazz Swing & Blues Great Ernie Fields' Collection Donated to OKPOP Museum
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Chris M. Slawecki
Ernie Fields Jr., the music contractor for American Idol, The Voice, and X Factor; and his sister Carmen Fields, an acclaimed journalist in the Boston area, have donated items from their famous father Ernie Fields Sr., and some of their own work, to the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture (OKPOP). The gift consists of artifacts, recordings, photographs, posters and documents related to Tulsa musician Ernie Fields Sr. The elder Fields began his career in music in the 1920s in Tulsa ...
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Usdan Center, W/expanded Jazz Program, Holds 4/21 Open House
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts day camp on Long Island whose Jazz Dept. was created more in 1986 by Dr. Billy Taylor, announces an Open House on Sunday April 21 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Center's Jazz Dept. has now expanded to have Ensembles for Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced groups (formerly there was only Advanced). Jazz stars who have performed at the Center and taught Master Classes include Usdan alumna ...
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Jazz At Lincoln Center's Swing University Spring 2013 Course Schedule
Source:
Michael Ricci
Guitarist Vincent Pelote, Pianist Connie Crothers, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Trombonist Vincent Gardner, Jazz Historians Phil Schaap, Terry Waldo, and Ben Young to Lead Jazz Education Courses Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) continues the 25th anniversary education season with the Spring Term of Swing University. This term marks the return of old favorites such as Ragtime led by leading ragtime scholar Terry Waldo ; Free Jazz led by jazz historian and WKCR's Ben Young ; the popular Jazz 101 ...
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Global Circulation Of Jazz - International Conference - Paris
Source:
Susheel Kurien
Call for Papers and panelists Below is a an extract from the attached CFP - Call for papers (available in both English and French). A conference poster is also attached. An international conference entitled “Global Circulations of Jazz" will be held on June 27-28, 2013, at the Musée du Quai Branly. Bringing together specialists, anthropologists, historians, musicologists,sociologists, the dissemination of jazz outside of its places of birth will be explored. We will look at this ‘other jazz’, whose history is ...
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Usdan, with expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open House 3/17
Source:
Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned New York area summer arts camp, will hold an Open House on Sunday March 17 from 11 AM to 2 PM on its 200-acre woodland campus. For more information, visit www.usdan.com, or call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900, or write to [email protected]. Usdan's Jazz Department, founded in 1986 by Dr. Billy Taylor, has expanded this year to include three separate performance ensembles: Beginning, Intermediate and Advanced. No audition needed ...
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New England Conservatory Launches Jazz Lab: One-week Jazz Program For Students Ages 14-18, From June 23-28
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Work With NEC’s Premier Jazz Faculty including Ken Schaphorst, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris and Rakalam Bob Moses Any plans for summer vacation? Come explore jazz at New England Conservatory during Jazz Lab, a program for students ages 14 – 18 of all proficiency levels, from all over the country and abroad. Jazz Lab promises musical and personal growth in a week-long immersion in ensemble performance, improvisation, small group training, jam sessions, entrepreneurial workshops, and college audition prep. Instrumentalists and vocalists ...
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Jazz Arts Group Announces 11th Annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award Competition
Source:
Scott Vezdos
Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is looking for Ohio's finest young musicians to participate in the eleventh annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio's young students of jazz. “This competition is extremely important in these times where music and arts are being cut back all across the board in public education from K-12," states 2012 co-judge Tom Carroll. “Keeping this American art form in ...
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