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Richie Garcia Joins L.A. Music Academy Drum Department
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All About Jazz
Drummer, Percussionist and Clinician Richie Gajate Garcia Joins Los Angeles Music Academy's Drum Faculty
“Percussion for Vocalists" Added to Curriculum
Pasadena, CA -- LA Music Academy (http://www.lamusicacademy.edu), fully accredited by the National Association of Schools of Music, announced today that the renowned Richie Gajate Garcia will teach the school's hand percussion classes, effective immediately. Garcia was recently voted one of the top Latin percussionists in Modern Drummer magazine's Reader's Poll and as well as a top Rock percussionist in DRUM! ...
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Academy of Music Opens in OK Lips, Allen and More to Teach
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JamBase
THE ACADEMY OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC TO CREATE NEW OPPORTUNITIES FOR U.S. MUSIC STUDENTS WITH THE OPENING OF ACM@UCO THE FLAMING LIPS, LILY ALLEN & MORE TO TEACH MASTER CLASSES
The Flaming Lips The Academy of Contemporary Music, a trailblazing music school, is set to create a new model for music education as it opens it first U.S. campus at the University of Central Oklahoma in 2009. The new school, known as the ACM@UCO, will provide unique ...
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New York Jazz Academy, New Jazz School for Kids and Adults, Opens on Manhattan's Upper West Side
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New York Jazz Academy Publicity
New York Jazz Academy, New Jazz School for Kids and Adults, Opens on Manhattan's Upper West Side NEW YORK, NY -- The New York Jazz Academy, the Upper West Side's newest music school, will soon be opening its doors, and is now accepting summer and fall 2009 registration inquiries from all interested parents and students. This new jazz school offers the highest quality jazz music instruction to New York City students, ages 4 and older. Recognizing the lack of opportunity ...
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NEC Announces Appointments of Pianist-Composer Fred Hersch and Saxophonist Miguel Zenon to the Jazz Studies Faculty
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
Hersch ’77 a Three-Time Grammy Nominee and Guggenheim Fellow Zenon a MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant Recipient at 32 As it looks forward to celebrating 40 Years of Jazz at NEC in 2009/10, New England Conservatory has announced the appointment of two outstanding musicians to its jazz studies faculty: pianist–composer Fred Hersch, an alumnus of the Class of 1977; and saxophonist Miguel Zenon, a 2008 MacArthur Foundation “Genius” Grant recipient. They will both teach on a part-time basis beginning in fall ...
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Jazz at New England Conservatory: A Timeline of Significant Events
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All About Jazz
1969 NEC President Gunther Schuller hires saxophonist Carl Atkins to head Department of African-American Music and Jazz Studies, the first such program at a classical conservatory. Composer George Russell and pianist Jaki Byard on Atkins' faculty. 1974 Pianist Ran Blake forms Third Stream Department. Pianist Jaki Byard, trombonist Phil Wilson, and composer/arranger Ernie Wilkins chair jazz program while Carl Atkins completes master’s degree in wind ensemble conducting. 1978 Composer William Thomas McKinley hired as Jazz Studies Chair 1981 Percussionist/arranger Pat ...
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What NEC Means to Me – Alumni Speak Out
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Braithwaite & Katz Communications
“Everything that I have done throughout my career has been based on the lessons that I learned at NEC. Studying in the Afro-American Music and Third Stream Music Departments (precursor of today's CI Dept.) I was taught the one-two combination of ear training and developing my own style. My teachers - Jaki Byard, Joe Maneri, Bob DiDomenica & Ran Blake in particular - went far beyond giving me the technical skills necessary to flourish. They encouraged me to be myself, ...
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New Online Jazz Improvisation Lesson Available: Transcribed Sonny Rollins Solos
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Jeff Rzepiela Public Relations
New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising over Confirmation
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All About Jazz
Tommy Flanagan spins out a dizzyingly virtuosic solo (at quite a brisk tempo, needless to say) over this classic Charlie Parker standard on his 1977 Enja trio recording “Confirmation," with George Mraz on bass and Elvin Jones on drums.
In this lesson, the tune is analyzed for harmonic content by deriving chordscales from the progression and then his solo is deconstructed into it's component parts of chord tones, scale patterns, arpeggios and approach patterns to demonstrate his use of each ...
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