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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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Chris Potter's Online Lessons Project
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Clay Wilson
As one of the most recognizable tenor saxophonists around, Chris Potter has proved his mastery of improvisation through a large variety of styles. In the Online Lessons Project from ArtistShare, Chris shares his various approaches to improvisation with each lesson focusing on different compositions and concepts with materials ranging from Giant Steps, to Confirmation, Just Friends to Darn That Dream. Students also have access to the Online Lessons Project Experience that includes downloadable exercises, discussion, and an interactive Q&A with ...
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Nine Women in the Room: A Jazz Musicians' Roundtable
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JamaicaMusic Offbeat
Roundtable sisters: From left to right: (top row) Geri Allen, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Tineke Postma and Helen Sung; (bottom row) Nona Hendryx and Gretchen Parlato by Tom Cole Over the summer, drummer Terri Lyne Carrington brought together some pretty high-profile musicians from all over the world to record The MOSAIC PROJECT: pianists Geri Allen, Helen Sung, and Patrice Rushen; bassists Esperanza Spalding and Mimi Jones; percussionist Sheila E.; woodwind players Anat Cohen and Tineke Postma; trumpeter ...
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Announcing Monterey Jazz Festival's Second Annual Latin Jazz Clinic for Music Teachers and Students, November 6, 2010
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Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Second Annual Latin Jazz Clinic for Music Teachers and Students Free Two-Hour Music Clinic Takes Place November 6, 2010 at Hartnell College in Salinas International Latin Jazz Recording Artists Part of MJF's Traveling Clinicians Program The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education since 1958, is proud to announce the Second Annual Latin Jazz Clinic for Music Teachers and Students, taking place Saturday, November 6, 2010 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon at the Hartnell ...
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