Education News

Aguilar Amplification Announces Master Class with Gary Willis

Source: All About Jazz
April 10, 2009

Aguilar Amplification, maker of high-quality bass amplifiers, speaker cabinets and accessories for bassists is pleased to announce the continuation of their Artist Series Master Classes on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 with endorsing artist, Gary Willis. An in-demand clinician, Willis has lectured in over 20 countries and currently teaches improvisation and arranging at the prestigious Escola Superior de Musica de Catalunya conservatory in Barcelona, Spain. His published works for Hal Leonard include Fingerboard Harmony for Bass, Ultimate Ear Training, and 101 ...

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Peter Erskine, Jon Faddis to Present Free Master Classes April 17 and 18 at the Touhill

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
April 8, 2009

In conjunction with their appearances next week as guest artists for the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, drummer Peter Erskine and trumpeter Jon Faddis will present free master classes on their respective instruments. Erskine's drum classes will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17 and 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. Faddis' trumpet class will be held from 12:45 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. on Saturday, April 18. All three master classes ...

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New Lesson Just Added on jazzpianoonline.com: Improv Drill: Approach Patterns

Source: All About Jazz
April 6, 2009

NEW Lesson Just Added: Improv Drill: Approach Patterns

Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 1

Joe Zawinul is perhaps best known as a fusion-based synthesist, co-founder of the popular jazz-rock group Weather Report and explorer of World Music styles as leader of his band the Joe Zawinul Syndicate. But he played straight-ahead jazz on the acoustic piano well before venturing off into the varied directions of the past 30+ years. His considerable talents as a bebop pianist are on display in ...

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Global Music Foundation Jazz Seminars/Workshops/Festivals: Croatia, Tuscany, Germany, and Cork

Source: All About Jazz
April 3, 2009

Seminars and workshops GMF is running five seminars this year, all of which are open to musicians from all over the world:

Krk International Summer School and Jazz Festival in Croatia, 11-15 July, 2009 International Jazz Workshop, Saarwellingen, Germany, 10-14 August, 2009 Tuscany Jazz Vocal Summer School, Certaldo, Italy, 18-25 August, 2009 Cork Jazz Festival, 23-26 October 2009, GMF is forming a new partnership with the Festival starting this year and on going. It will run 3 day programme of ...

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Participate in U. Penn Musician Study

Source: All About Jazz
April 1, 2009

Dear Musician, Do people really know what it's like to be a professional musician? Do musicians themselves even know what their peers think and do? A large-scale groundbreaking new study from a University of Pennsylvania researcher (and musician) is attempting to find out. This study is different from all prior studies on musicians in that it is collecting information from diverse geographic areas and many types of musicians. Although the media churns out a continuous stream of images depicting ...

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Columbia College Students Learn About Music Industry from the Pros

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2009

The future leaders of the music industrybe they aspiring singers, instrumentalists or producershave to start somewhere.

On Friday, that place was the downtown campus of Columbia College Chicago, where industry professionals met with more than 120 high school students as part of Grammy Career Day. The free program was co-hosted by Grammy in the Schools and the Gibson Foundation.

The day opened with spoken-word artist Malik Yusef of Chicago, who has collaborated with Kanye West and Common, among others, stressing ...

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New on jazzpianoonline.com: The Major II-V-I Progression Update

Source: All About Jazz
March 31, 2009

This lesson will introduce you to this universal and ever-present jazz progression by starting with it's derivation from the major scale all the way through to building, identifying and playing major key ii-V-Is in tunes.

Update includes: Expanded and improved video lesson; new quizzes; expanded and improved practice sessions and bonus licks from Tommy Flanagans 1977 Enja recording Confirmation.

What is JazzPianoOnline.com? JazzPianoOnline is Online, Interactive, Streaming Video Jazz Piano Lessons.

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Seattle Times: Hot Java Cool Jazz: A Showcase of High-School Bands at the Paramount

Source: Seattle Jazz Scene
March 28, 2009

from The Seattle Times: For the past 10 years, high-school jazz bands from Washington state have accounted for nearly one-quarter of the finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington band competition in New York City. True to form, three schools from the Seattle area are sending bands to the 15-band Ellington competition in May: Garfield, Roosevelt and Newport. To raise money for travel expenses, those schools — along with the bands from Shorewood and Mountlake Terrace high schools, which have also ...

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