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Musespring Launches Online Music Industry Education Center
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HypeBot
MuseSpring is a newly launched online course system for the music industry designed as a continuing ed-style subscription service. The concept definitely has some potential but MuseSpring also has a few challenges ahead based on this early version. Founder JD Carr shared his thoughts this week on MuseSpring and where they want to go with their service that launched on Monday. MuseSpring is being developed in relationship to SongBliss, a music discovery network, that provided some of the inspiration for ...
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Horns To Havana To Deliver 120 Donated Instruments To Cuban Students
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Jennifer Kramer
(New York, NY) HORNS TO HAVANA will take a full planeload of musical instruments and nearly another planeload of jazz musicians, luthiers and brass, percussion and woodwind repair technicians to four Cuban music academies from September 4-11. All U.S. Government licenses and approvals have been granted that will facilitate shipping and travel for Horns to Havana's lyrical cultural exchange between the American jazz community and Cuban music students, based on music with deeply shared African as well as European roots. ...
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Thelonious Monk Institute Of Jazz Announces Semifinalists For The 2011 International Jazz Piano Competition Made Possible By Cadillac
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Hilary Sheinbaum
JUDGES INCLUDE HERBIE HANCOCK, ELLIS MARSALIS, JASON MORAN, DANILO PEREZ AND RENEE ROSNES Semifinalists Will Compete to Perform at the 25th Anniversary Gala and Win Scholarship Prizes and a Recording Contract with Concord Music Group Washington, D.C.—The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, the world's premier nonprofit jazz education organization, announces the 12 semifinalists for its illustrious 2011 International Jazz Piano Competition. The 2011 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Competition Semifinals, sponsored by Cadillac, will take place on Sunday, September 11th ...
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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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