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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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Jazz Appreciation Month at The GRAMMY Museum
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Chris M. Slawecki
Preservation Jazz Hall Band, Henry Butler & More to Perform At The GRAMMY Museum Major Jazz Artifact Acquisition Announcement And Other Events Scheduled For April During Jazz Appreciation Month The GRAMMY Museum is honored to participate in the 10th Annual Jazz Appreciation Month (JAM), to be celebrated throughout April. The month-long celebration pays tribute to jazz as both a historic and living art form and boasts a variety of nationwide activities. The GRAMMY Museum will host a series of public ...
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Thousands Escape Stress, Get Creative at NewAgePianoLessons.com
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Edward Weiss
Stress ... it affects us all. But it doesn't have to put a damper on your creativity. At least that's according to pianist/composer Edward Weiss. Weiss is also the webmaster and creator of NewAgePianoLessons.com—a website that teaches beginning adults how to play piano in the New Age style. New Age music was extremely popular in the mid 1980's and is making a big comeback now. When asked why this may be so, Weiss comments: “I think people always used music ...
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Jazz Arts Group's PBJ & Jazz Season Finale with Cleveland Jazz Pianist Joe Hunter
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Michael Ricci
In celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month, the Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) welcomes the piano stylings of Joe Hunter to the Lincoln Theatre ballroom on April 9 for the season finale of PBJ & Jazz presented by Bob Evans Farms. Joe Hunter is one of Cleveland's most popular and busiest jazz pianists. He is a favorite at many Tri-C JazzFest events and is the co-host with Bill Rudman of the very popular “The Song is You" series. He has ...
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