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Painted Bride Art Center and John Hollenbeck Collaborate on Big Ears Residency Program

Source: All About Jazz
February 24, 2009

Painted Bride Art Center proudly presents Big Ears, an ambitious residency program that brings together New York-based drummer/composer John Hollenbeck with a dozen Philadelphia jazz musicians. A call to artists, followed by a rigorous selection process, has yielded a group of local artists that transects age, gender, ethnicity, and musical heritage. The program concludes on March 6 with the premiere of new music that Hollenbeck has composed for the group. The artists are united by what Bride music curator Lenny ...

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Photographer Frank Kuchirchuk Donates Rare 1950s Jazz Photographs to Oberlin

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Images of Legends Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz and More

Taken at Famed Lindsay's Sky Bar in Cleveland OBERLIN, OHIO -- Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire collection of jazz images to the Oberlin Conservatory of Music. The Frank Kuchirchuk Collection of Jazz Photography contains some 200 images, most of which are negatives that ...

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New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising Over Lady Bird

Source: All About Jazz
February 23, 2009

Improvising Over Lady Bird

Explore Hank Jones' improvisational concept by examining the melodic content of his solo over the changes to the 1948 Tadd Dameron tune Lady Bird from his 2008 IPO Records release, Our Delight. After considering his use of chord tones, scale passages, arpeggios, approach patterns, tensions, phrasing and his use of chromaticism, take a turn at writing and improvising your own solo with three licks of his taken from the transcription of this recording.

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Vibist Jerry Tachoir Takes Jazz to the Classroom

Source: All About Jazz
February 22, 2009

A Grant from the Community Foundation, The Tennessee Arts Commission, the Musicians Performance Trust, and the Hendersonville Arts Council has provided an opportunity for Middle School and High School Students in Middle Tennessee to experience The Jerry Tachoir Group Live. This is probably the first and only time these students might get an opportunity to be exposed to contemporary jazz improvisation and by a live working Jazz Group. The Jerry Tachoir Group is playing some of their original material by ...

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Terence Blanchard's Words and Music

Source: All About Jazz
February 18, 2009

By Barry Johnson, The Oregonian Saturday February 14, 2009, 8:15 AM The Portland Jazz Festival started off this year with Terence Blanchard, the New Orleans hard-bop trumpeter/band leader/ and film-score composer. He headlined the opening-night concert Friday and he was the first Jazz Conversation earlier in the day. The conversation, moderated by The Oregonian's own Luciana Lopez, was quite instructive, drilling down on Blanchard's work with director Spike Lee on the documentary “When ...

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National Guitar Workshop's 2009 Season with Pat Metheny, Pat Martino, Jimmy Herring, Buddy Guy and More

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2009

National Guitar Workshop Announces 2009 Season With Special Guests Buddy Guy, Paul Gilbert, Jimmy Herring, Jimmie Vaughan and Pat Metheny The National Guitar Workshop is proud to announce our 2009 season. This year we will be presenting week long workshops across the country and featuring guest artists such as Paul Gilbert, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Herring, Pat Metheny, Jimmie Vaughan, and many more. Litchfield, CT—Februrary 17, 2009 – The National Guitar Workshop is excited to announce the curriculum and guest artists ...

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Harpists Brandee Younger and Megan Sesma to Work in Guatemala

Source: All About Jazz
February 17, 2009

Two versatile harpists, Brandee Younger and Megan Sesma, will be showcasing their love for teaching and performing through the Guatemala Harp Teaching Project. February 17-26, the two talented instrumentalists will be volunteering their time to travel to Guatemala to coach and teach for a short period of time at venues which will include El Conservatorio Nacional de Musica in Guatemala City, and El Sitio Cultural in Antigua. Their teachings will also include harp projects in Jocotenango and San Lucas Toliman, ...

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Musicians' Composition Residency at Flushing Town Hall

Source: All About Jazz
February 16, 2009

NYC Performing Arts Spaces, a program of Fractured Atlas, is sponsoring the newly-created Con Ed Musicians' Residency: Composition Program.

Summary This pilot residency will provide three (3) individual composers with daytime, weekday use of suitable composition and rehearsal space in Flushing Town Hall (FTH), in Flushing, Queens, for a three-month period. FTH is a remarkable early 20th century building owned by the City of New York that houses the Flushing Council on the Arts, the host of the ...

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