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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 ...
Music Education Monday: Vocal tips from Kurt Elling and Frank Sinatra, and more
This week for “Music Education Monday," here are some free resources for aspiring jazz vocalists. If you're just getting started, the website JazzSingers.com offers a good overview of the history of jazz singing and its most important practitioners, and includes a lot of potentially useful links. For example, that's where yr. humble editor found the text ...
Music Education Monday: The Purdie Shuffle
Sometimes StLJN's weekly “Music Education Monday" feature deals with broad topics, and sometimes, things get very specific - like today's video lesson from famed session drummer Bernard Purdie, which is all about how to play the beat known as the “Purdie Shuffle." Produced by Drumeo.com, the video shows Purdie himself explaining and demonstrating the distinctive half-time ...
The Great Debate: Music Business Education [Steve Rennie]
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Over the course of my career I’ve been asked a million times, “What is the best way to learn the music business?” Answering that question has really become something of a mission for me over the last two and a half years. By Steve Rennie of Renman Music & Business Over the course of my career I’ve ...
Music Education Monday: Master classes with pianists Chick Corea and Kenny Werner
This week for “Music Education Monday," you can check out video master classes from a couple of prominent keyboardists. Chick Corea is one of the best-known pianists in jazz, having served his apprenticeship with Miles Davis and played free jazz with Circle before co-founding the seminal jazz-fusion band Return to Forever. His extensive catalog as a ...
