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Hohner Launches "How to Blow the Blues" iPhone Application
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Just Roots PR
Hohner, Inc., announces the release of its first iPhone application for harmonica entitled “How to Blow The Blues."
For a purchase price of $1.99 from the iTunes App Store, iPhone users can learn how to play a 12-bar blues lick on harmonica by following on-screen animation and audio/video demonstrations. Users can then play the newly learned licks and jam along with eight included grooves. They can also 'play' live sampled harmonica notes on a virtual on-screen harmonica, explore the 'Gallery ...
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New Years Resolutions: This is the Year to Play Piano
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Michael Ricci
Another year has flown by, and its hard to believe were already passing the first decade of the 21st century. Instead of making New Year's resolutions you know you wont be keeping, why not do something different for a change? Make a worthwhile New Years resolution to learn how to compose and play your very own piano music even if you never touched a keyboard in your life! Sound far fetched? Not at all according to maestro Edward Weiss, teacher, ...
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The Future of Music and the Music Business Online at the Berklee College of Music
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HypeBot
I'm honored to have been asked to teach The Future Of Music And The Music Business online course for The Berklee College of Music. The course was inspired by Dave Kusak and Gerd Leonhard's seminal book The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution and is constantly evolving as the music business evolves.
The course preview explains that it “will examine scenarios for the future from the perspective of what is working today and what will ...
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First Miles Davis Multimedia Museum Exhibition in Canada
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Michael Ricci
From April 30 to August 29, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will pay tribute to Miles Davis (1926-1991) in We Want Miles: Miles Davis, Jazz Legend, the first multimedia retrospective museum exhibition in Canada of one of the twentieth centurys greatest musicians.
Featuring recordings of the jazz artist's most iconic pieces; film and documentary performance clips; paintings and drawings by Miles Davis; photographs by Annie Leibovitz and Irving Penn; costumes, archival documents, musical instruments and scores lent by ...
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Campus Musicians Receive Gift From Pianist Earl Hines' Estate
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Michael Ricci
BERKELEY -- The gift to the University of California, Berkeley, of the bulk of famous jazz pianist Earl “Fatha" Hines' estate will provide exceptionally gifted low-income students with free musical instruction and the campus's music library with his collection of papers, compositions and memorabilia. Hines' musical archive will become the cornerstone at the Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library of a new Archive of African American Music, which would be unique on the West Coast. Hines played to sold-out audiences in ...
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Jazz Workshops in Weimar, Germany
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Michael Ricci
Originally a spin-off from Yiddish Summer Weimar, Winter Edition has taken on its own life and identity as a festival/institute for music improvisation, the voice, the body and awareness. Under the direction of Alan Bern and with an outstanding international faculty, the atmosphere of Winter Edition is at the same time interdisciplinary, holistic, intensive, inspiring and rigorous. In 2010, Winter Edition expands from one to two weeks: January 23 - February 7. In the first week, three short workshops take ...
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Grammy Award Winning Harmonica Virtuoso Howard Levy Launches the First Online Personal Video Exchange Harmonica School
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1888 Media
Grammy Award winner Howard Levy in conjunction with ArtistWorks Inc. (AWI), is excited to launch The Howard Levy Harmonica School (HLHS) - the first ever online personal video exchange school that will teach students around the world to play harmonica, including the various genres of jazz, blues, folk, classical and world music. Partnered with online video technology experts AWI, Levy integrates years of experience as a player and educator with their innovative video exchange teaching technology. Students around the world ...
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Terry Teachout to Speak December 16 at Maryville University
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St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
Writer Terry Teachout, who spurred considerable controversy in certain circles this summer with a Wall Street Journal article about declining audiences for jazz, is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday, December 16 to speak at Maryville University about his latest book.From the news release:“Author, blogger and critic Terry Teachout discusses his latest book, Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong, at 7 p.m. on Dec. 16, in Buder Commons on the main campus of Maryville University. Teachout is ...
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