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Summer Jazz Sicily: 8-Day Workshop in Polizzi Generoso - Applications Due April 15, 2010
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Michael Ricci
New York, NY - Summer Jazz Sicily is pleased to announce openings for our 2010 jazz workshop in Polizzi Generoso, Sicily, led by NYC jazz drummer and director of percussion at the Fieldston School, Scott Latzky. Aspiring jazz musicians of all levels are invited to join us for this intensive 8-day workshop which includes private lessons, small combos, classes on theory and improvisation, and live performance opportunities. Students will live and learn in a renovated 19th century country house on ...
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2010 Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy Welcomes Young Musicians from Asia to Join!
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Michael Ricci
Taipei International Jazz Season just unveiled the performers and the faculty of the Summer Jazz Academy of its 7th season online. These 11 masters of jazz include internationally renown jazz musicians, faculty of European and American conservatories. They will gather in Taipei in late July to do a demonstrative concert and teach in our Summer Jazz Academy. Long-term cultivation of talents, cross-regional fusion of ideas is the motto of TIJS, Taipei International Jazz Season. This original guiding concept comes from ...
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A Student's View of Berklee's Topspin Course
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HypeBot
This guest post comes from Brian Coughlin of the indie band Kinch. Brian just finished taking Berkleemusic's new Online Music Marketing With Topspin course and shares some of what he learned. While it's offered every semester, today happens to be the last day to sign up for this semester. A little background: A year ago, I emailed Topspin asking for an account for my band, Kinch. I thought we were a perfect candidate for testing out their software because of ...
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MODA Entertainment Announces Library of Congress Acquires Dexter Gordon Collection of Jazz
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Press Dept
Considered one of the world's greatest tenor saxophonists, jazz legend Dexter Gordon (1923-1990) was once quoted as saying, Jazz to me is a living music. It's a music that since its beginning has expressed the feelings, the dreams, hopes, of the people. The Library of Congress has taken steps to ensure the survival of Gordon's musical heritage by acquiring more than a thousand items from his career spanning more than five decades. The collection comprises a wide range of Gordon's ...
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Free Music Business Handbook from Berklee
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HypeBot
I've really enjoyed teaching The Future Of Music for the Berklee College Of Music's online arm this semester. I learned a great deal from my students who came from several countries and had a rainbow of perspectives and experiences.(Cell phones are much more important to music marketing and delivery than computers in many countries, for example.) I've also heard from a number of Hypebot readers about how much cutting edge yet practical information they learned from the new Online Music ...
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Musical Improvising -- Is It All in Your Brain?
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Michael Ricci
Is there a biological basis to a great sax solo?
Jonah Lehrer, a Wired editor and author of several populist-psychology books, recently recapped an intriguing new study by psychologists Darya Zabelina and Michael Robinson of North Dakota State University. The authors asked distinct groups of college students to imagine a day off from school or work, with one groups day set in the present, and the other's set from the perspective of a 7-year-old, and then gave each some creative ...
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NYJA Manhattan Jazz Big Band Announces Open Auditions in April
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New York Jazz Academy Publicity
New York Jazz Academy, the fastest growing music school in New York City, announces open auditions for the NYJA Manattan Jazz Big Band. The Manhattan Jazz Big Band is open to adult intermediate-advanced level instrumentalists who are looking to play and learn in a big band setting. This is a weekly workshop that will meet for two hours in each session. Stop by St. Peter's Church (East 54th St. at Lexington Ave., New York, NY) for an audition (and free ...
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Wayne Escoffery NYC Jazz Workshops Now Registering All Instruments
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New York Jazz Academy Publicity
New York Jazz Academy, the fastest growing music school in New York City, is pleased to announce a new workshop offering for all instruments. Line Building with Wayne Escoffery is open to intermediate-advanced level instrumentalists who are looking to improve their skills related to playing jazz lines. This is a weekly workshop that will meet for one hour in each session. Classes begin Thursday, April 8, 7pm. Topics covered in the workshop include: Methods for playing through chord changes
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