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Music Education Monday: Vocal tips from Kurt Elling and Frank Sinatra, and more

July 13, 2015

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 ...

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Music Education Monday: The Purdie Shuffle

July 6, 2015

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 ...

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The Great Debate: Music Business Education [Steve Rennie]

July 7, 2015

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 ...

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Music Education Monday: Master classes with pianists Chick Corea and Kenny Werner

June 30, 2015

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 ...

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Music Education Monday: A drum lesson and conversation with Ginger Baker

June 15, 2015

Ginger Baker established himself as a significant musical force while drumming with the 1960s power trio Cream, and over the ensuing decades has continued to impress rock, jazz and world music fans with his technique and imagination. On a personal level, one understandably might have some qualms about getting too close to the infamously irascible percussionist ...

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Terence Blanchard Named Visiting Scholar At Berklee College Of Music

May 20, 2015

Berklee College of Music has named world-renowned trumpeter, composer, bandleader, and Blue Note recording artist Terence Blanchard as a visiting scholar in the Jazz Composition department beginning in the fall of 2015. Blanchard will also work in the Film Scoring and Brass departments, and for the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. “Coming to Berklee feels like I’m ...

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Hitting the jazz highway

May 13, 2015

Building your jazz skills isn’t just about playing your instrument, singing your songs, developing your style and strengthening your improvisational skills. It’s also about dealing with challenges on the road, disruptive sleep patterns, and getting along with your band mates as you jump on the van and head to the next gig. Four students from the ...

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Music Education Monday: A master class in understanding audio formats

May 11, 2015

This week's “Music Education Monday" explores a subject that's rather technical, but nevertheless of interest to any working musician who wants to distribute audio to the public. Engineer Andrew Scheps is a music industry veteran who has won two Grammys and logged credits working with major pop, rock and hip-hop acts including Adele, U2, Red Hot ...

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Doubling; A History (Of Sorts)

May 9, 2015

A recent discussion among jazz researchers centered on the evolution of instrumentation as big bands changed through the decades. The conversation developed into exchanges about not only the makeup of band sections—rhythm, brass and reeds—but also the matter of doubling, in which individual musicians played more than one instrument and sometimes several. In the 1920s and ...

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Music Education Monday: A master class with percussionist Milford Graves

May 4, 2015

The week for “Music Education Monday," we've got a different kind of master class for drummers. While most drum workshops are full of talk of exercises, licks and rudiments, Milford Graves deals with concepts and philosophy as much as technique, as befits his status as one of the elder statesmen of free jazz drumming. First coming ...