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Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Series Features Master Blues Guitarist Sean Carney - Jan. 14
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Michael Ricci
Columbus, OH—International Blues Challenge (IBC) winner and Albert King Best Guitarist Award-winner Sean Carney returns to the Lincoln Theatre on Saturday, January 14, 2012 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 has been expanded 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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Al Jarreau Vocal Scholarship Awarded
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Chris M. Slawecki
Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music, that partnered recently with jazz vocalist Al Jarreau to offer a vocal scholarship in his name, today announced Ethiopia's Nefthalem Mulat was the first student to be awarded the prestigious scholarship. Jarreau, a seven-time Grammy Award winning jazz vocalist, provides one scholarship per semester to attend LA Music Academy; Nefthalem beat out scores of other applicants.
“Nethalem stood out from the pack thanks to a strong musical background and thorough application. We were ...
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New Music Seminar Returns to NYC June 17-19, 2012
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HypeBot
This year's New Music Seminar (NMS) has been announced for June 17-19, 2012 in New York City. the conference will open with keynote speaker Bob Pittman, CEO of Clear Channel. Pittman has been a key player in Clear Channel Radio's Pandora-like digital radio platform, iHeartRadio. If past New Music Seminars are any indication, these three days will be filled with informative seminars and important networking opportunities. Unlike some industry gatherings that focus on specific themes like music tech, branding or ...
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Jazz Education? Priceless
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
For a moderately sized urban area, I am impressed with the opportunities afforded aspiring musicians, and particularly aspiring jazz musicians. Jazz is really a hard sell. It's been decades since it could be called America's “popular" music. And it was never a major subject in public school curricula. In most contexts, jazz was barely a footnote in a general music classroom. Listings of jazz gigs and concerts, if included at all, typically are noted on small-print calendars at the back ...
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Jazz Legend Gary Burton Partners with Berkleemusic.com to Teach Jazz Improvisation Online
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Michael Ricci
New Online Course “Gary Burton: Jazz Improvisation" launches on January 9th, 2012 Boston, MA: Berkleemusic.com, the online school of Boston's renowned Berklee College of Music, is unveiling an exclusive new online course with jazz legend, Grammy-award winning artist, and Berklee alum, Gary Burton. “Gary Burton: Jazz Improvisation" provides an unprecedented opportunity for musicians from across the world to learn the techniques and mental process that takes place in improvising directly from one of the greatest living jazz improvisers, who is ...
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Billy Cobham Online Drum School Goes Live
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James Taylor
California-based music education technology company ArtistWorks has opened the ArtistWorks Drum Academy today with the launch of online drum schools from two of the world's top drummers: world-renowned fusion and jazz drumming legend Billy Cobham and rock drumming superstar Thomas Lang. Both the Billy Cobham School of Drums and the Thomas Lang School of Drums utilize ArtistWorks' patent-pending video technology, enabling drummers around the world to receive personalized video feedback and take online drum lessons to an unprecedented new level. ...
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The 2012 Pat Metheny Summer Music Workshop!
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James Ulreich
National Music Workshop Is Proud To Announce: The 2012 Pat Metheny Summer Music Workshop! For intermediate and advanced jazz musicians, all instruments (limited enrollment) Event to be held August 20-24, 2012, The Spa at Norwich Inn, Norwich, CT The National Music Workshop is proud to announce the 2012 Pat Metheny Summer Music Workshop. World-renowned guitarist, composer and bandleader Pat Metheny will return to The Spa at Norwich Inn in Norwich, Connecticut for five days (and four nights) to conduct workshops, ...
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New Lesson on JazzPianoOnline.com: From Lead Sheet to Arrangement - The Safflower
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Bill Rinehart
At the heart of solo jazz piano playing lies the use of spread and rootless voicings. But to truly transform a simple lead sheet into a captivating piece of music involves digging deeper into the jazz player's bag of tricks and employing an array of arranging and reharmonization techniques to develop and intensify the underlying character of the melody and harmony of the tune. Each lesson in this series features a comparison of a fully realized two-handed arrangement of tune ...
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