Education News

Berkeley's Jazzschool Announces Winter 2010 Classes and Programs

Source: Terri Hinte Publicity
January 7, 2010

As the Jazzschool's Winter 2010 Quarter commences on Monday, January 11, students in the Jazzschool Institute's brand-new four-year Bachelor of Music degree program in Jazz Studies return for their Spring 2010 semester on January 19. “We have a wonderful group of instrumentalists and vocalists in our entering class," says Founder and Director Susan Muscarella. “They are passionate about the music and committed to a life in and around jazz, and we are so excited to see these plans come to ...

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Registration Ends Monday Jan. 11th for Berklee Online Courses

Source: HypeBot
January 6, 2010

Registration for the popular online classes offered by the Berklee College Of Music ends on Monday January 11th. Judging from the number of Hypebot readers that are taking it, there appears to be great interest in Mike King's new Topspin based Online Music Marketing course.

I'll be teaching The Future Of Music And The Music Business online course for Berklee this semester. This course was inspired by Dave Kusak and Gerd Leonhard's seminal book The Future of Music: ...

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Savannah Music Festival Awarded Jazz.Next Implementation Grant to Support New Jazz Technology Project

Source: Michael Ricci
December 29, 2009

Center for New American Media and Heideldesign selected as project partners Savannah, Georgia -- SWING CENTRAL, the nationally acclaimed high school jazz band competition and workshop produced by the Savannah Music Festival (SMF), is the subject of a new media project that utilizes technology to enhance the promotion of jazz music and education. SMF is one of only five recipients of first-round funding from the national Jazz.NEXT initiative, also including NPR, Monterey Jazz Festival, Walker Art Center and the National ...

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Hohner Launches "How to Blow the Blues" iPhone Application

Source: Just Roots PR
December 29, 2009

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

Source: Michael Ricci
December 26, 2009

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

Source: HypeBot
December 23, 2009

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

Source: Michael Ricci
December 20, 2009

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

Source: Michael Ricci
December 11, 2009

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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