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Jazz Arts Group PBJ & Jazz Season Finale with Michael Cox - March 10
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Michael Ricci
Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) and Bob Evans Farms present the PBJ & Jazz season finale featuring Columbus Jazz Orchestra saxophonist Michael Cox at the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on March 10, 2012. Due to popular demand, this year's season has been expanded to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Michael Cox joined the Columbus Jazz Orchestra in 1991 after moving to Columbus to teach full time as Professor of ...
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Roger Ingram to Present Master Class Saturday, March 3 at UMSL
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Trumpet player Roger Ingram will be in St. Louis to present a trumpet clinic and master class at 1:00 p.m., Saturday, March 3 at the Villa Annex on the South campus of the University of Missouri—St. Louis (UMSL). Ingram is a noted jazz educator and clinician whose performing resume includes tours and recordings with the big bands of Louis Bellson, Quincy Jones, Woody Herman, Frank Sinatra and Harry Connick Jr. as well as the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The ...
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Tritone Jazz Adds Third Camp This Summer
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Bob DeRosa
PENFIELD, NY: A Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camp will become part of the summer curriculum of the legendary Interlochen Center for the Arts in Interlochen, Michigan, June 17-22, 2012. Tritone Jazz at Interlochen will be added to Tritone's two other camps, Tritone Cool on the Lake at Bjorklunden, Baileys Harbor, WI, (July 8-13); and Tritone Jazz at Naz, at Nazareth College in Rochester, NY (July 22-27). The increasingly popular Tritone Jazz Fantasy Camps, designed exclusively to provide personalized jazz instruction in ...
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Wishbone Ash Drummer Joe Crabtree Develops Innovative New Drum and Music Software
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Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
London, UK—Best known for his drumming with UK classic rock legend Wishbone Ash, Joe Crabtree has developed new and exciting software for the drummer and musician. Crabtree, who has been creating music software for a number of years, is excited to introduce the RhythMachine, OctopuSequencer, Pyramid and PolyNome. RhythMachine is a tool for generating rhythms and melodies and orchestrating them on the drum kit or pitched instruments. It can be used for ear training, creating vamps to solo over or ...
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Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Presents New Basics Brass Band
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Michael Ricci
Columbus, OH: The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) will enlist the infectious horns of the New Basics Brass Band to heat up the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on February 18, 2012 for the next PBJ & Jazz concert presented by Bob Evans Farms. Due to popular demand, this years season has been expanded to include two performance times per concert, beginning at 10:00 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Originally launched in 1995, the sousaphone-driven New Basics Brass Band layers jazz, R&B, ...
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VIAA to Present Workshops on Music Business Essentials, and More
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts has announced several additions to their schedule of “Business Edge" workshops for artists, starting this Monday, February 13 with a presentation called “Inside The Music Biz: Legal Essentials." Entertainment lawyer Gary Pierson of the Husch Blackwell firm will discuss “the most essential legal and strategic information," including protecting band names and songs, which type of business entity is right for you, how music publishing works, and when you need a lawyer. ...
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Listening to Jazz Workshop Features the Music of Monk at Boston Public Library, Dudley Branch, on Saturday, February 4
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Jazz trombonist Bill Lowe and pianist John Kordalewski are leading a Listening to Jazz Workshop at the Boston Public Library's Dudley Branch, 65 Warren Streetin Roxbury on Saturday, February 4, 2012, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The workshop helps participants understand common compositional structures (blues and 32 bar song forms) and demonstrates how an improvised solo relates to the composition being played. This session features the work of jazz pianist Thelonious ...
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Vlaa to Present Workshop on Bookkeeping for Artists Next Monday, February 6
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
St. Louis Volunteer Lawyers and Accountants for the Arts will present a workshop on “The Artist As Bookkeeper" from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. next Monday, February 6 at the Regional Arts Commission, 6128 Delmar. Angie Fink of UHY Advisors Tax and Business Consultants will be the speaker, and will “guide you through the tax maze and offer suggestions that could save you money and a lot of aggravation." The cost of the workshop is $10 in advance, $15 at ...
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