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The Dakota Combo: Peer Support and All That Jazz
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JazzINK by Andrea Canter
Another year, another Dakota Combo. Every September (since 2006), the MacPhail Cener for Music and Dakota Foundation for Jazz Education have joined forces to bring an intensive year of jazz studies to a highly selected, small ensemble of the area's top high school jazz artists. And every summer, there's that final performance of the Combo, the summation of their months of rehearsal, clinics, and performance -with directors Kelly Rossum (2006-2009) and Adam Linz, with guest artists like Bobby Watson, Delfeayo ...
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Music.Nature Camps at Victor Wooten's Wooten Woods
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JamBase
FLECKTONES MAGICIAN EDUCATES NEXT GENERATION Five-time Grammy winning bassist Victor Wooten will continue hosting a series of educational music and nature camps in late summer and fall at his own Wooten Woods, which is located just an hour outside of Nashville. Wooten Woods is a newly built camp/retreat and private event center located in Only, TN, resting on 150 acres along the bank of the beautiful Duck River. The facility has multiple large buildings for special events and instruction, an1018 ...
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Tanglewood Jazz Festival Presents NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb in Master Class for Drummers
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BSO Press
LENOX, Mass.—NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb will present a Master Class for Drummers on Sunday, September 4, at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. The master class —which is free to drum students of all ages— will begin at 12:30pm in the Jazz Café Tent, on September 4, closing day of the 3-day festival. Jimmy Cobb is the last surviving member of the iconic jazz recording “Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. In the one-hour master class, he will be accompanied by ...
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Acclaimed Jazz Pianist Peter Martin Launches Unique Approach To Music Lessons
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Sarah Daly
SAINT LOUIS, MISSOURI—Renowned jazz pianist, composer, educator and arranger Peter Martin has announced his new online approach to music education at petermartinmusic.com/lessons. Through his innovative method of musical education, Mr. Martin provides eager jazz students the opportunity to fine-tune their musical mastery, offering full-length video lessons online in addition to one-on-one Skype lessons, a monthly Online Master Class and 2-Minute Jazz Piano Lessons. This complete online instructional program features exclusive members-only sessions that offer weekly instruction by Mr. Martin, along ...
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REMINDER: Call for Research Proposals - August 15th Deadline
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Christy Farnbauch
The third annual Jazz Education Network Conference, January 4-7, Louisville, KY is calling for submission of research papers related to its theme “Developing Tomorrow's Jazz Audiences Today." The research track solicits the submission of original, principled research papers dealing with topics related to audience development for jazz in particular, but also for the arts in general. The research track will run parallel with presentations by the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus on the Jazz Audiences Initiative. Such presentations will include ...
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Jazz Night School Presents "Up-Beat Girls Jazz Camp"
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Seattle Jazz Scene
The Jazz Night School is offering a special jazz camp for girls in grades 6-12. The “Up-Beat Girls Jazz Camp" is a week-long day camp that gives young musicians an opportunity to sharpen their improvisational skills and also gain experience playing in a jazz combo. Daily sessions include instruction in ear-training, theory, rhythm and jazz history as well as plenty of hands-on playing time. There will be a daily lunchtime jam with professional female musicians from the Seattle jazz community. ...
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Jazz Arts Group's Youth Jazz Programs Announce Exciting Personnel Changes
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) announces exciting personnel changes in its Jazz Academy Youth Jazz programs. Todd A. Stoll, founder and artistic director for Jazz Arts Group's Youth Jazz programs has announced his acceptance of the position of Director of Education for Jazz at Lincoln Center, NYC. JAG congratulates Stoll on this exciting opportunity and has been working directly with Stoll to identify faculty for its Youth Jazz program, which consists of three ensembles: The Columbus Youth Jazz ...
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July Issue of Scooby-Sax Newsletter Published
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Jeff Rzepiela
The July, 2011 issue of the Scooby-Sax Newsletter has been published. The latest issue of this educational resource focuses on the analysis of transcribed solos by Al Cohn, Hank Mobley, Zoot Sims, and John Coltrane on the tune, “Tenor Conclave." The four solos make a fascinating study in the similarities and differences among the tenor saxophone soloists. The analysis of these four solos on “I Got Rhythm" chord changes focuses on such techniques as chromatic approaches, guide tone lines, sequences, ...
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