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Berklee Holds Scholarship Auditions in Istanbul for the First Time
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Michael Ricci
Berklee College of Music, the world's leading institution for the study of contemporary music, will be holding audition and interview events (A&I) in Turkey for the first time as part of the college's World Scholarship Tour, offering talented musicians the chance to be awarded a scholarship to attend the college. The events, hosted by Modern Mzik Akademisi (MMA) in Istanbul, November 22 to 26, will include clinics, lectures, an information session, a jam session, and a music educator's forum. For ...
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PlayJazzNow Releases Bebop and Odd Meter Playalong Tracks
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Michael Ricci
The innovative jazz education website PlayJazzNow.com has just released a new series of downloadable backing tracks. The latest sets of tracks delve into both classic and contemporary jazz materials. BEBOP STANDARDS is the new collection of tunes popularized by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and their “worthy constituents" in the 1950's. PlayJazzNow offers a fresh take on some of the most beloved and often performed standards from this era, available exclusively as high fidelity mp3 files. ODD METER BASICS will help ...
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Andreas Oberg and Jimmy Bruno Form the Artistworks Guitar Project
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Michael Ricci
Two of today's greatest jazz guitarists collaborate for the first time ever for 5 intense days in Napa California at the studio of ArtistWorks. Video footage of the Guitar Project and behind the scenes video and audio are to be released. So what happens when two world class guitarists get together for the first time? What if you close the door and tell them “go do something new together"? Jimmy Bruno and Andreas Oberg had never met until a few ...
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Nation's Top High School Jazz Bands Selected for Swing Central at 2010 Savannah Music Festival
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All About Jazz
Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has selected twelve outstanding high school jazz bands from more than 50 applications to participate in the fifth annual SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop. Under the leadership of pianist/educator/composer Marcus Roberts, the esteemed clinicians of SWING CENTRAL include Jeff Clayton, Wycliffe Gordon, Jim Ketch, Marcus Printup, John Clayton, Gerald Clayton, Jason Marsalis, Jim Ketch, Dave Stryker, Roland Guerin, Ted Nash, Obed Calvaire, Terell Stafford, Leon Anderson, Chris Crenshaw, Rodney Jordan, Bill Peterson, ...
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Stop Fiddling with Your Instrument and Learn to Read Music
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All About Jazz
There's an old musician's joke that goes something like this: Want to know the best way to make a guitarist to turn down their volume? Put sheet music in front of them.
All jokes aside, it's possible to perform music without any knowledge of music theory just as it's possible to memorize a speech without knowing how to read. But reading music puts you in league with the big masters. Let us help you with the basics. To refine your ...
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Northeastern University Reflects on Legacy of John and Alice Coltrane on November 13
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
Northeastern University presents a discussion entitled The Coltranes and Humanism: Spirituality, Music and Sound, on Friday, November 13. It takes place from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the John D. O'Bryant African American Institute, 40 Leon Street on campus. The event is free and open to the public.The events starts with a roundtable discussion that includes master musician/scholar Yusef Lateef, joined by Professor Tammy Kernodle, and Northeastern professors Emmett Price and Leonard Brown. They'll address the humanist legacy ...
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Chicagoan Jua Howard First Recipient of Mark Murphy Vocal Jazz Scholarship
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Terri Hinte Publicity
Jua Howard, a 30-year-old singer from Chicago and a member of the Jazzschool Institute's 2009 entering class, has just been named the first recipient of the newly established Mark Murphy Vocal Jazz Scholarship, it has been announced by Jazzschool Institute Vocal Director Laurie Antonioli. “Mark's influence has inspired not only my singing," says Antonioli, “but my devotion to jazz education, as he was my first vocal teacher." Antonioli, along with other Bay Area vocal stars (and Murphy protegees) Kitty Margolis, ...
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