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Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) - Reserve Now For Winter Program With Jazz Greats Leading Masterclasses
Coming off a successful initiation this past January, Jazz Academy Miami (JAM) summoned several, world renowned Jazz greats to conduct masterclasses, 1-on-1 sessions and joint performances for the first winter program of JAM, which hosted students from Taiwan, Canada and Europe. Markus Gottschlich is JAM founder and Miami Beach Jazz Festival Artistic Director. JAM SCHEDULE Summer ...
Music Education Monday: Developing a theme into a big band arrangement
This week's Music Education Monday is a sort of case study in big band arranging, presented by pianist Bill Dobbins, professor of jazz studies and contemporary media at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. A veteran jazz educator, Dobbins first joined the Eastman faculty in 1973, and played a major role in designing the ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with Pulitzer Prize winner Henry Threadgill
Since saxophonist and composer Henry Threadgill recently won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for music for his composition “In for a Penny, In for a Pound," this seems like an opportune Music Education Monday to share with StLJN readers a video master class with him. Threadgill, 72, is a Chicago native who's been creating innovative music since ...
Music Education Monday: An online course in improvisation from MIT, and more
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA is known as one of the top schools in the country for engineering, math, and science, and as such, they've also been a pioneer in online learning, putting material from many courses on the internet for anyone to access for free. And while MIT may not be known ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with David Liebman's Expansions
This week for Music Education Monday, it's a video master class with saxophonist David Liebman and his band Expansions, who will be in St. Louis to perform for one night only this Saturday, April 23 at Jazz at the Bistro. Liebman, who's now 69 years old, has played thousands of live dates and made hundreds of ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with percussionist Airto Moreira
This week for Music Education Monday, you can sit in on a master class with Airto Moreira, the Brazilian-born percussionist who helped define early 1970s jazz-fusion through his work with Miles Davis and the original lineups of Weather Report and Return to Forever. Moriera, who will be 75 years old this year, is married to jazz ...
Music Education Monday: A jazz trumpet clinic with Etienne Charles
Today for Music Education Monday, let's look in via video on a jazz trumpet clinic presented by Etienne Charles. Born in 1983 on the island of Trinidad, Charles has a master's degree from Juilliard and a bachelor's from Florida State University, and currently serves as assistant professor of jazz studies at Michigan State University. As a ...
Music Education Monday: A jazz guitar workshop with Barney Kessel
Today for Music Education Monday, you can get a video lesson from the legendary guitarist Barney Kessel. Some younger musicians and fans understandably might not know Kessel, who died of a brain tumor in 2004 and previously had been inactive since suffering a stroke back in 1992, but for a long stretch of the 20th century, ...
Music Education Monday: A master class in improvisation with Gary Burton
Regarded as one of the most significant and versatile jazz musicians ever to play his chosen instrument, vibraphonist Gary Burton has been an important figure in improvised music since the early 1960s. Now 73 years old, Burton is a multiple Grammy award winner known for his innovative four-mallet technique, his pioneering albums fusing jazz with rock ...
Music Education Monday: Feeling the funk with Paul Jackson and Mike Clark
Though bassist Paul Jackson and drummer Mike Clark both have extensive lists of credits, they still may be best known as the funky foundation of the Headhunters, the band that backed keyboardist Herbie Hancock in the 1970s and subsequently spun off into an independent act. The slippery, off-beat syncopation of interlocking drum and bass tracks powering ...
