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Music Education Monday: "Jazz Fusion Master Class" with Zakir Hussain
Percussionist Zakir Hussain is known as a virtuoso of the tabla who has spent his career bridging Indian classical music and jazz, in the process helping to invent and popularize the notion of “world music." Hussain (pictured) was a co-founder of the band Shakti with John McLaughlin and L. Shankar, and in addition to leading his ...
Music Education Monday: Master classes with saxophonist Chris Potter
Whether it's as leader of his own bands or as a sideman to the likes of Dave Holland, Paul Motian, and Dave Douglas, Chris Potter has been one of the most in-demand saxophonists in jazz for most of the 21st century. Potter, who will be 45 years old this Friday, has released more than 15 albums ...
Music Education Monday: A Latin jazz bass clinic with Oscar Stagnaro
Unless you follow Latin jazz and/or jazz education fairly closely, you might not know Oscar Stagnaro by name, but the veteran bassist has the knowledge and the chops to rank with the best in the business. A native of Peru, Stagnaro has been a professor at Berklee College of Music since 1988, and has written three ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire
Today for Music Education Monday, it's a master class from trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire. A rising star in the jazz world, the 33-year-old native of Oakland, CA studied at the Manhattan School of Music and the University of Southern California, and in 2007 was the winner of both the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition and the Carmine ...
New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab: June 26 to July 1, 2016
Students ages 14-18 are invited to spend a week in the city eating and breathing jazz with some of the best musicians in the country and make friendships that will last a lifetime at New England Conservatory’s Jazz Lab. It’s a one-week intensive program for students from throughout the United States and abroad. Instrumentalists and vocalists ...
Music Education Monday: Guitar lessons from John McLaughlin, and more
As a sideman to Miles Davis and Tony Williams, founder of the bands Mahavishnu Orchestra and Shakti, and a prolific solo artist and collaborator, John McLaughlin is one of the most admired guitarists of the past 50 years. Drawing on jazz, rock, classical, Indian music, and more, McLaughlin, now 73 years old, helped pioneer the jazz/fusion ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with Michael Brecker, and more
Saxophonist Michael Brecker was a prolific and influential jazz, rock, pop, and session player for the better part of four decades, starting at the turn of the 1970s and continuing until his untimely death from complications of leukemia in 2007, when he was just 57 years old. Brecker's distinctive sound and approach, drawing on the innovations ...
Music Education Monday: A rhythm section workshop with bassist Rufus Reid
Today for Music Education Monday, you can watch the veteran bassist Rufus Reid as he leads a workshop in jazz rhythm section performance with students at Loyola University New Orleans. A California native, the 71-year-old Reid (pictured) studied music at Northwestern University and began his professional career in Chicago before moving in 1976 to New York ...
Music Education Monday: B-3 for beginners
The sound of the Hammond B-3 organ is an integral part of many American musical genres, from blues and funk to gospel and soul. It's been part of jazz, too, almost since its invention in 1935, but really came into prominence starting in the 1950s thanks to Jimmy Smith. Smith, a Philadelphia native who started as ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with Tony Williams
Drummer Tony Williams burst on to the international jazz scene in sensational fashion, getting hired when he was just 17 years old by Miles Davis to join what would become known as the trumpeter's “Second Great Quintet." Starting in 1963, that band become one of the most popular and critically acclaimed jazz groups of the decade, ...
