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Jazz Arts Group Announces the 10th Annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award Competition

Source: Michael Ricci
March 15, 2012

Columbus, OH The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is looking for Ohio's finest young musicians to participate in the tenth 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 2011 co-judge Tom Carroll. “Keeping this American art form in the ...

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Honoring Its Steadfast Commitment To Building New Audiences For Jazz, National Nonprofit JazzReach Has Served Over A Quarter Million Young People Nationwide Since Inception

Source: Chris Schimpf
March 12, 2012

AIMS TO SERVE MORE THAN 30,000 THIS YEAR ALONE EXTENSIVE NATIONAL TOURING & OUTREACH CONTINUES THROUGHOUT THE SPRING, REACHING YOUNG PEOPLE IN OVER 17 AMERICAN COMMUNITIES LATEST ALBUM AND LIVE MULTIMEDIA PROGRAM BIG DRUM/SMALL WORLD CELEBRATES INCREASINGLY GLOBAL NATURE OF JAZZ WITH COMMISSIONED WORKS BY SOME OF TODAY'S MOST ACCLAIMED COMPOSERS “With music this compelling and performances this committed, [JazzReach house ensemble] Metta Quintet ought to have a much higher profile...[The organization's] commitment to raising jazz visibility has ensured it ...

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New Music Seminar 2012 Unveils High Powered Speakers List Including Bob Pittman and Sean Parker

Source: HypeBot
March 6, 2012

The New Music Seminar (NMS), set to take place in New York City June 17 to 19, announced an impressive speakers list. They include SoundExchange President, Michael Huppe; Pandora CEO/President, Joe Kennedy; Clear Channel Entertainment President, John Sykes; BMI CEO/President, Del Bryant; Violator Management CEO, Chris Lighty; Nile Rodgers Productions Founder/Owner, Nile Rodgers; Reverb Nation CEO/Founder, Michael Doernberg; Topspin Media CEO/Founder, Ian Rogers; eMusic CEO/President, Adam Klein. This year's New Music Seminar features partnerships with SoundExchange, BMI and iHeartRadio. Special ...

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Jazz Arts Group PBJ & Jazz Season Finale with Michael Cox - March 10

Source: Michael Ricci
February 28, 2012

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

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
February 25, 2012

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

Source: Bob DeRosa
February 20, 2012

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

Source: Glass Onyon PR - Keith James
February 15, 2012

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

Source: Michael Ricci
February 13, 2012

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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