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New York Jazz Academy, Innovative New Music School, Prepares to Launch Its Fall Semester
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New York Jazz Academy Publicity
NEW YORK CITY – The New York Jazz Academy, the city’s newest music school, is preparing to launch its fall semester and is now accepting fall 2009 registration inquiries from all interested parents and students. Located on 86th and West End Avenue, in the heart of the Upper West Side, this new jazz school offers the highest quality jazz music instruction to New York City students of all ages. Recognizing the lack of opportunity among many NYC students to play ...
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Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble Auditions, September 26
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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble Auditions Held on September 26
Auditions Are Open to All Young Musicians, Grades 6 to 10!
Kimmel Center Education Department welcomes all young musicians, grades 6 10, to audition for the Kimmel Center Youth Jazz Ensemble on Saturday, September 26, 2009 from Noon to 3pm in the Kimmel Centers Merck Arts Education Center.
Those interested in auditioning must register online at www.kimmelcenter.org/education or by calling the Education Projects Coordinator at 215-670-2371 by Wednesday, September 23, ...
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SF Jazz Appoints Paul Contos New Director of SF Jazz High School All-Stars
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Marshall Lamm Promotions & Public Relations
Cory Combs, Director of Education of SFJAZZ—the leading non-profit jazz organization on the West Coast and presenter of the 27th Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival running October 10 through November 21—today announced the appointment of Paul Contos as the new Director of the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars. Founded in 2001 by Dr. Dee Spencer, the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars are selected annually by competitive audition. The All-Stars program provides advanced-level training in small and large ensemble performance, composition, jazz theory, ...
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Other Places: Guilfoyle on Jazz Education
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Rifftides by Doug Ramsey
Ronan Guilfoyle is an Irish jazz musician and educator whose blog, Mostly Music, probes issues that concern working musicians as well as academics in institutions where jazz is taught. Those are often the same people. Increasingly, professional jazz players also teach in jazz schools. In part, that is because they need day gigs to support themselves; it should be unnecessary to convince anyone that for all but a handful of stars, there is little steady employment playing jazz. In part, ...
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Los Angeles Music Academy Partners with Grammy U
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All About Jazz
Los Angeles Music Academy Partners With The Recording Academy's GRAMMY University Network
Pasadena, CA -- LA Music Academy (http://www.lamusicacademyedu) announced today it has partnered with The Recording Academy's GRAMMY University Network to offer all enrolling and current students membership in the GRAMMY U program, beginning in Fall 2009. LA Music Academy, accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music (NASM), has graduated more than 1,000 international and domestic students since opening in 1996. The music school offers its drum, ...
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SF's Pyramind School Presents: Skerik Master Class
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JamBase
Pyramind Presents Skerik: Recording Chaos and Acoutronica Concepts September 19
Skerik San Francisco's Pyramind proudly welcomes acclaimed musician Skerik as the next guest in their “Elite Sessions" series of weekend master classes. Pyramind is the leader in digital audio, recording, and electronic music training in the heart of San Francisco. Skerik is a highly acclaimed musician (i.e. insane Seattle sax hero and overall musical genius, see: Garage a Trois, Critters Buggin, Les Claypool). On Saturday September 19, these worlds collide ...
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On This Date in Music History: Lester Young Born
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Michael Ricci
On August 27, 1909, 100 years ago, Lester Young one of the true jazz giants, a tenor saxophonist, was born. Lester Young was the major influence on a generation of tenor saxophonists who preferred his relatively light, pure tone and agile swing to the husky heaviness of the once-dominant Coleman Hawkins. “Although he spent his earliest days near New Orleans, Lester Young lived in Minneapolis by 1920, playing in a legendary family band. Because he refused to tour in the ...
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