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BMI Jazz Composers Workshop
Twenty-five years ago, composer-arrangers Manny Albam [pictured] and Bob Brookmeyer were growing worried. In the late 1980s, big bands seemed to be going the way of the typewriter, and unless something was done to reverse the trend, jazz orchestra arrangers would no longer be needed and scoring for bands would become a lost art. At roughly ...
Complete Musician's Guide to Getting Played on College Radio
David Roberts is the founder of the Sunshine Promotion company. Based out of Nashville, TN, his blog “Sunshine Promotion“ helps artists achieve real goals with hard facts, case studies, and templates of music business plans to follow. Recently, I had the chance to chat with EricTheReDD, the former general manager of WJSC-FM (Johnson State College, Vermont) ...
Paula Cole Joins Voice Department At Berklee College Of Music
Berklee College of Music announces that Paula Cole has joined the college's voice department. Cole, a 1990 Berklee graduate, is a Grammy winner and seven- time Grammy nominee who has sold approximately three million albums. She begins her tenure on September 1. “I like to think of what I do as a loving gesture of giving ...
Latest Issue Of Scooby-sax Newsletter
The latest issue of the Scooby-sax Newsletter has been published. In this issue, one chorus of a Phil Woods solo on the tune “Solar" is examined. A number of improvisation exercises are developed using the raw material from the solo. Starting from a given phrase that Phil Woods played, different options are shown to transform the ...
Guitarist Dave Stryker Appointed to IU Jacobs School of Music Jazz Faculty
The Indiana University Jacobs School of Music is pleased to announce that Dave Stryker will join its faculty as adjunct lecturer in jazz guitar this fall. Stryker was voted one of the Top Ten Guitarists in the 2001 DownBeat Readers poll and a Rising Star for the last five years in the DownBeat Critics Poll. Known ...
Annual Brubeck Institute Program Pairs Nation's Best Student Musicians With Award-winning Jazz Artists
STOCKTON, CA: The Brubeck Institute Summer Jazz Colony at University of the Pacific draws together 18 of the best high school jazz musicians from throughout the country to hone their performance skills in the shadow of jazz greatness. Named for the late Dave Brubeck, a University of the Pacific alumnus who went on to become the ...
Jazz.FM91 Announces "Jazz 101: The Beginners Guide To Jazz"
After the very successful launch of “Jazz 101: The Beginner’s Guide to Jazz” in May, JAZZ.FM91 announced the Fall release of this course. Designed for jazz fans, these 6-week jazz appreciation courses are interactive and engaging guides to the icons and innovators. Through engaging lectures, listening, demonstration, and discussion, participants will learn from jazz experts and ...
First Ever Master's Degree Students To Graduate From Berklee In Valencia, Spain
Berklee College of Music, the world’s leading college for contemporary music education, announces that 74 students from 27 different countries will be the first-ever to graduate from its inaugural master’s programs launched in September 2012 at its new international campus in Valencia, Spain. The graduates will be awarded degrees in one of three programs: Contemporary Performance; ...
Student Led Berklee Rhythm Collective Teach And Perform In Colombia As Cultural Ambassadors
Berklee College of Music student bassist Esther Rojas, a native of Barranquilla, Colombia, leads the Berklee Rhythm Collective on a two-week trip to her home country to teach and perform. The program, sponsored by the Colombo-Americano Bi-National Center (BNC) of the U.S. Embassy’s Cultural Affairs Office, is part of an initiative to promote Colombian and U.S. ...
Dave Holland Joins Royal Academy Of Music
The Royal Academy of Music is delighted to announce the appointment of jazz legend Dave Holland to its illustrious roster of of teachers. Dave Holland said: “I'm very happy to have been invited by the Royal Acadamy of Music to be their International Jazz Artist in Residence for the next two years. Spending some extended time ...
