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Music Education Monday: New Orleans piano with Jon Cleary and Tom McDermott
Given that old adage about converts being the most zealous believers, perhaps it should come as no surprise that two of the most prominent current custodians of the New Orleans piano tradition are transplants to the city. Jon Cleary originally from is England, while Tom McDermott is from right here in St. Louis, but both have ...
Berklee Students Bring Music Therapy And Jazz Workshops To Panama And Perform With Wayne Shorter
Danilo Perez, president of the Danilo Pérez Foundation and artistic director of the Berklee Global Jazz Institute (BGJI), and Patricia Zarate, executive director of Panama Jazz Productions and founder of the Latin American Music Therapy Symposium, are bringing students from the BGJI and Berklee’s music therapy program to Panama City, Panama, to work with the Foundation ...
Music Education Monday: Drum clinics with Greg Hutchinson and Ralph Humphrey
As one of the top schools for jazz, Berklee College of Music in Boston benefits from a a steady supply of working professional musicians visiting campus to augment the instruction provided by permanent faculty. For this week's Music Education Monday, you can check out some of that extra instruction provided to Berklee percussion students, as we ...
Music Education Monday: Master classes with saxophonist Ernie Watts
For this week's Music Education Monday, you can take in a couple of master classes on video from the veteran saxophonist Ernie Watts. In addition to his own recordings as a leader, Watts (pictured) has played with an exceptional range of jazz, rock and soul musicians and groups, including Buddy Rich, Bobby Hutcherson, Doc Severinsen and ...
Music Education Monday: Standard tunes every jazz musician should know
If you spend any time at all around jazz as either a musician or a listener, it won't be long before you read something or hear someone discussing “jazz standards" or just “standards." Which in turn may prompt one to ask, what is a standard, and why are they important? Simply put, a “standard" is a ...
Creative Music Studio Announces Fall Workshop, October 5-9, 2015
Composer/multi-instrumentalist and Creative Music Studio alumnus Peter Apfelbaum, master percussionist/educator Billy Martin, and composer/saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa will join CMS Artistic Directors/Co-Founders Karl Berger and Ingrid Sertso as Guiding Artists for the Creative Music Studio Fall 2015 Workshop Intensive, October 5-9, at the ear-inspiring Full Moon Resort in Big Indian, NY. CMS’s Fall 2015 Workshop features a ...
Music Education Monday: A master class with Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer
In addition to being two of the top pianists in contemporary jazz, both Jason Moran and Vijay Iyer are past winners of much-coveted MacArthur Fellowships (aka “the genius grant"), and both have developed accompanying reputations as deep thinkers. For this week's “Music Education Monday," here's a small window into the minds of both men, via a ...
4 Lies They Taught You In Music School
While a college education theoretically prepares one for life in the real world, the reality is often quite different. Here are a few misconceptions that recent college grads may have picked up during their academic tenure. Guest Post by Christine Occhino on Sonicbids.com If you're fortunate enough to have been able to go to an accredited music ...
5 Omissions From Berklee College/Rethink Music’s Report
Berklee College of Music/Rethink-Music/Kobalt Music put out a report criticizing various rights/publishing organizations within the music industry for not providing artists with sufficient transparency or pay, although this article posits that the report should have delved deeper. Guest Post by David Lowery on TheTrichordist.com I love transparency. Last week Berklee College of Music/Rethink-Music/Kobalt Music released this report on transparency ...
The Mouthpiece Placement Question
Steve Provizer’s comment about Bill Hardman’s off-center trumpet embouchure in last weekend’s Horace Silver video reminded me of other trumpeters with unconventional mouthpiece placement. There are many examples. Hardman’s, Jon Faddis’s and Ruby Braff’s mouthpieces go to the left, Louis Armstrong’s and Wild Bill Davison’s slightly to the right. In all cases, what comes out the ...
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