Education News

Gino Robair Presenting Free Workshop on Friday, March 6

Source: St. Louis Jazz Notes by Dean Minderman
March 5, 2009

While he's town to perform his improv opera “I, Norton" on Saturday night at St. Louis Community College - Forest Park, percussionist Gino Robair (pictured) also will lead a free workshop at the college from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. on Friday, March 6.The workshop, like Saturday's concert, will take place in the theater at the Mildred E. Bastian Performing Arts Center, 5600 Oakland Ave on the SLCC-FP campus. Here's the description sent out by New Music Circle, ...

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Summer Jazz Workshop 2009 in Amsterdam!

Source: All About Jazz
March 3, 2009

The Conservatorium van Amsterdam and Manhattan School of Music present: Summer Jazz Workshop 2009 co-hosted by Manhattan School of Music July 6 - 10, 2009, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Study jazz in Amsterdam this summer! You now have the opportunity to study jazz in an outstanding international musical atmosphere. The Conservatorium van Amsterdam and the Manhattan School of Music organize the successful Summer Jazz Workshop. The workshop will be open to jazz students (instrumentalists as well as vocalists) from all over ...

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Join Tisja 2009, the Ultimate Jazz Learning Experience This Summer in Taipei!

Source: All About Jazz
February 28, 2009

One of the premier summer jazz education programs in Asia, the annual Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy is planning for its 6th year and larger scale, recruiting even higher-level jazz sensations from all over Asia to participate, and had helped many talented local jazz musicians to develop more on their musical styles and musicianship. Learn with International Jazz Masters who are not only fantastic players but also great teachers without distance for Jazz Improvisation, Instrument & Vocal Techniques, Ensemble Playing, ...

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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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