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Washington University to Honor Pat Martino at Free Symposium This Thursday, December 2
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
The Jazz at Holmes series and the Washington University Department of Music will present guitarist Pat Martino (pictured) in a public symposium honoring his work from 12:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. this Thursday, December 2, at Graham Chapel on the Wash U campus. Martino will be in St. Louis to perform Wednesday, December 1 through Saturday, December 4 at Jazz at the Bistro. He will be joined at Thursday's symposium by music professors William Lenihan of Wash U and Steve ...
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Jazz Video Contest at PlayJazzNow.com
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Bill Harrison
PlayJazzNow.com, your source for the finest downloadable play-along tracks, invites you to enter its Jazz Video Contest. Create a YouTube style video demonstrating how you use PJN's play-along tracks. Play your instrument, sing, give a lesson explaining some aspect of jazz performance—do whatever you do best. Entries will be judged on originality and quality of the content, but you don't have to be an expert level musician to win. Deadline: December 31, 2010 11:59 PM Central Standard Time. Need a ...
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NEW on JazzPianoOnline.com: Artist Voicings: Taylor Eigsti
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Bill Rinehart
Three voicing techniques from the beautiful solo piano introduction to Taylor Eigsti's tune “Midnight After Noon" from his 2010 Concord Records release, Daylight at Midnight, are examined in this lesson: a dramatic voicing without a third, an ascending major chord line cliche and rich drop 2 voicings. Learn how he uses them, the theory that makes them work and strategies for incorporating these devices into your own playing. JazzPianoOnline.com is an on-demand, digital library of streaming video jazz piano lessons. ...
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Rethink Music Conference Announces Competition and Call for Papers, Prizes include $50,000
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Berklee Public Relations
Berklee College of Music and Harvard Business School are hosting a Music Industry Business Model competition, and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University (in collaboration with Harvard Law School's Journal of Sports and Entertainment Law) is running a Call for Papers, both associated with the conference “Rethink Music: Creativity, Commerce and Policy in the 21st Century." The conference—to be held in Boston and Cambridge, MA, April 25-27, 2011—is designed to provide a forum for high-level deliberation ...
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Jazz Academy Music Making Opportunities with Columbus Music Co-op, Sarah Morrow, Duke Robillard, Nia Allen
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers extraordinary music making opportunities at the Jazz Academy to engage all ages and interests including free workshops with the Columbus Music Co-op and clinics with international trombone star Sarah Morrow, Blues Music Award-winning guitarist Duke Robillard, and gospel singer Nia Allen. The Columbus Music Co-op continues its free workshop series for aspiring musicians this Sunday, November 21 with “So You Want to Make Music in Columbus?" Learn how to book shows and ...
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Mike Stern to Present Free Master Class This Friday, November 19 at Graham Chapel
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
This just in from the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University: Guitarist Mike Stern (pictured) will give a free master class at 4:00 p.m. this Friday, November 19 at Graham Chapel on the Wash U. campus. The event is sponsored by Jazz at Holmes and the Wash U. Department of Music, and it is free and open to the general public, with no ticket or advance registration needed. Stern will perform Wednesday through Saturday of this week at Jazz ...
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Other Places: Learning Through Hearing
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Jazz as an academic discipline has made huge strides in colleges and universities, even in high schools and middle schools. Students can major in jazz studies in music departments where 40 years ago they would have been suspended for jamming in practice rooms. The University of North Texas, Indiana University, the University of Illinois, Berklee College of Music and the New England Conservatory are among dozens of institutions of higher education turning out hundreds of graduates educated in jazz. In ...
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Jazz Arts Group Opens 2010-11 PBJ & Jazz Concert Series
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Michael Ricci
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is pleased to return to the Lincoln Theatre for the 2010-2011 season of the Jazz Academy's PBJ & Jazz concert series presented by Bob Evans Farms. The season kicks off on Saturday, November 13 with the gypsy jazz of SpeakEasy featuring Tom Carroll and Andy Carlson. Tom Carroll has served on Denison University Music faculty since 1980 as the instructor of guitar and coordinator of Jazz Studies since 2000. Besides leading his own ...
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