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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.

Watch Watch high-quality streaming video, ...

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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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Sittin' in with Bill Kirchner

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers
March 25, 2009

Early yesterday morning I took the subway down to 14th Street and walked east to the campus of the New School University. I was on my way to sit in on Bill Kirchner's Jazz History class. Some weeks ago Bill had invited me to attend whenever I wished, and I specifically chose to hear him talk about Miles Davis.

In addition to being a terrific teacher (his students adore him), Bill is a renowned saxophonist and arranger, journalist and author. ...

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"Jazz 101" Class with Greg Osby Set for Thursday, April 9

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 25, 2009

Jazz St. Louis will present another of its “Jazz 101" classes at 8:30 p.m., Thursday, April 9 at Jazz at the Bistro.The “Jazz 101" series is designed to help listeners of all ages and musical backgrounds to better understand jazz. For April's class, “Understanding The Blues," JSL director of education Phil Dunlap will discuss the blues' origins and structure and the difference between blues and jazz, and will play various musical selections as examples.Sitting in as ...

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Pat Martino Awayday - April 8th 2009 - Last Minute Ticket Price Reduction

Source: All About Jazz
March 25, 2009

Legendary jazz guitarist, Pat Martino will be giving a UK master-class on Wednesday April 8th.

The event is to be hosted by the Institute of Contemporary Music Performance, and Guitar Getaways Guitar Events.

He's probably the greatest jazz guitarist alive today, without question in my mind. Bruce Lundvall - Blue Note CEO

Martino is also one of the most influential guitar educators of his generation. Over the past twenty years, his guitar methodologies have become essential study for any serious ...

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