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Jazz At Lincoln Center's Swing University Spring 2013 Course Schedule
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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
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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
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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
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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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Jazz Guitarist Matt Warnock Joins University Of Chester Staff
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Matthew Warnock
A globally recognized jazz guitarist, who has taught and played throughout the US, UK, Canada and Brazil, has joined the University of Chester’s Performing Arts Department. Dr Matt Warnock, who is known to hundreds of thousands of guitarists via his teaching website mattwarnockguitar.com, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at the University of Chester. He will be teaching in the various modules of the undergraduate degree, working particularly with ensembles and guitar students. Dr Warnock said: ...
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Usdan, with Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open Houses 2/20 and 2/24; Jane Monheit to be Visiting Faculty for 2013 Season
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Reva Cooper
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp with an expanded Jazz Dept. for 2013, will hold free Open Houses on Wednesday February 20 and Sunday February 24, each from 11 AM to 2 PM. Attended annually by more than 1500 students ages 6-18 from New York City and throughout the Tri-State Area, transported by air-conditioned buses, Usdan is located on a magnificent 200-acre woodland campus in the Huntington area of Long Island. About ...
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Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage is coming back home to St. Louis at the end of next month for a busy weekend of activities that will include three performances and a workshop: On Thursday, February 28, Burrage will perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, leading a trio with pianist Ptah Williams and bassist Darrell Mixon. The show will get underway at 8:00 p.m. in Holmes Lounge on the Wash U campus, ...
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