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Missouri Student Composers Win Prizes In Statewide Music Competition
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Dean Minderman
COLUMBIA, MO—The University of Missouri School of Music today announced that 28 elementary, middle school and high school students from across Missouri have been awarded prizes in the sixth annual Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) competition. C.O.M.P. is a joint venture of the University of Missouri School of Music and the Sinquefield Charitable Foundation, which provides an annual gift of $50,000 to sponsor the competition. The program was created to encourage K-12 students in Missouri to write original musical works ...
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2011 The 8th Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy is open to apply now!
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Taipei International Jazz Education & Promotion Association
The only international level jazz educational event in Taiwan Organized by the most experienced musicians Large scale summer jazz program in Asia Taught by international jazz masters Styles, Skills, Play, Experience, Real, Direct All you need to know about Jazz Is right here at TISJA! Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy, in its 8th anniversary, has witnessed the result of 7 years' cooperation between corporal and educational circles, becoming the pride ...
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Jon Faddis to Present Free Master Class This Wednesday, April 6
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Trumpeter Jon Faddis (pictured) will give a free master class at 1:00 p.m. this Wednesday, April 6 in the Rialto Ballroom of the Centene Center for Arts & Education, 3547 Olive St in the Grand Center district. Faddis will be in town along with with pianist Cyrus Chestnut and his group to do an educational residency for Jazz St. Louis and perform next Friday and Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. The master class is open to middle school, high ...
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Who Says College Pep Band is Boring? These Students Rock to Rage Against the Machine
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HypeBot
George Mason University has the best college band class ever. Hands down. In preparing for pep band, this teacher is showing his students how to rock out to the music styling's of Rage Against The Machine. As Digital Music Insider cleverly quipped, “And now you do what they taught ya." The things to watch out for are the girl in red who is obviously having the time of her life and the guy in the back left, who at 27 ...
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Five-Time Grammy Award-Winning Bassist Victor Wooten Teams with Béla Fleck for Master Class at Berklee, April 6-8
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Berklee Public Relations
Teams with Béla Fleck for Master Class, April 6 Delivers Keynote at Berklee's 17th Annual Liberal Arts Symposium, April 8 Boston, MA—From April 6 to 8, five-time Grammy Award-winning bassist Victor Wooten will be in residence at Berklee College of Music. April 6, Wooten will team up with banjo great and Flecktones band mate Béla Fleck for a master class, and on April 8 he will deliver the keynote at Berklee's 17th Annual Liberal Arts Symposium. These events are not ...
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Jazz Arts Group 2011 Summer Camp/Workshop Opportunities at the Jazz Academy
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers a stellar line-up of music making opportunities to engage all ages and interests with summer camps and clinics at the Jazz Academy community instructional space in the Lincoln Theatre complex. With nearly 5,000 square feet, the Jazz Academy is a premier facility for multi-generational and recreational music making, ensemble playing, after-school programs, technology instruction and lectures with world-class musicians. Join Sean Carney and the Sean Carney Band for CAMP Blues (June 13-17, ...
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Extended Interviews with Jazz Greats Available on Hamilton College Jazz Archive Website
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Chris M. Slawecki
A collection of 300 audio interviews with jazz musicians, arrangers, writers and critics, the jazz greats and the supporting cast from the 1930s to the present, is now available online and free to the public courtesy of the Hamilton College Jazz Archive at www.hamilton.edu/jazzarchive. Listeners can click on a link and read the transcripts or listen to interviews with some of jazz's most well-known musicians, including Dave Brubeck, Lionel Hampton, Oscar Peterson and George Shearing as well as former members ...
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Saxophonist Jeff Coffin of the Dave Matthews Band To Offer Free Jazz Masterclass/Performance at Cascio Interstate Music, April 9th to Benefit the Milwaukee Jazz Vision
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Jamie Breiwick
New Berlin, WI—Cascio Interstate Music, 13819 W. National Avenue in New Berlin, presents saxophonist Jeff Coffin, three-time Grammy-winner and member of the Dave Matthews Band plus Béla Fleck and the Flecktones. Jeff will appear on Cascio's Soundstage inside the Cascio SuperStore, from 11 amת pm on Saturday, April 9, 2011. His jazz band, Jeff Coffin & the Mu'tet will perform along with the Muskego High School Jazz Ensemble. Coffin, a strong supporter of music education, will conduct a FREE Masterclass ...
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