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New England Conservatory Launches Jazz Lab: One-week Jazz Program For Students Ages 14-18, From June 23-28

March 4, 2013

Work With NEC’s Premier Jazz Faculty including Ken Schaphorst, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris and Rakalam Bob Moses Any plans for summer vacation? Come explore jazz at New England Conservatory during Jazz Lab, a program for students ages 14 – 18 of all proficiency levels, from all over the country and abroad. Jazz Lab promises musical and ...

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Jazz Arts Group Announces 11th Annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award Competition

February 25, 2013

Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is looking for Ohio's finest young musicians to participate in the eleventh annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio's young students of jazz. “This competition is extremely important in these times where music and arts ...

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Jazz Guitarist Matt Warnock Joins University Of Chester Staff

February 21, 2013

A globally recognized jazz guitarist, who has taught and played throughout the US, UK, Canada and Brazil, has joined the University of Chester’s Performing Arts Department. Dr Matt Warnock, who is known to hundreds of thousands of guitarists via his teaching website mattwarnockguitar.com, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at the University ...

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Usdan, with Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open Houses 2/20 and 2/24; Jane Monheit to be Visiting Faculty for 2013 Season

February 12, 2013

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp with an expanded Jazz Dept. for 2013, will hold free Open Houses on Wednesday February 20 and Sunday February 24, each from 11 AM to 2 PM. Attended annually by more than 1500 students ages 6-18 from New York City and throughout ...

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Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop

January 22, 2013

Drummer and U City native Ronnie Burrage is coming back home to St. Louis at the end of next month for a busy weekend of activities that will include three performances and a workshop: On Thursday, February 28, Burrage will perform a free concert for the Jazz at Holmes series at Washington University, leading a trio ...

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Unique Approach To Piano Playing Helps With Seasonal Affective Disorder

January 12, 2013

It's wintertime. And many are out playing in the snow. But for some, winter is not a happy event. In fact, it can be downright depressing. Which is why pianist/composer and online teacher Edward Weiss is giving away a free 'New Age' piano lesson titled 'Forest Interlude.' The lesson promises to teach beginning adults how to ...

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Jazz Legends Hancock And Shorter Named Distinguished Professors At Monk Institute

January 8, 2013

Jazz legends Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter named distinguished professors at the expanded Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance at the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music Los Angeles, CA — The Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz has appointed multiple GRAMMY Award winners and NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Wayne Shorter as distinguished professors at ...

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Learn Jazz Improvisation with Jazz Apps Mobile's Iimprov Series

January 4, 2013

By Harry Decimo of Evolver.fm. Trolling through the app stores, a musician sees plenty of options for learning new tricks, and all sort of tuners and other utilities. But truly useful musicians' tools designed for players who know what they are doing are decidedly rarer. Basic guides to music theory and the like are common enough, ...

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Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory

January 2, 2013

Well-known performing Chicago jazz artists are now sharing their musical experience and passion with a new generation at Merit School of Music in Chicago's West Loop. Newly-hired trumpeter Art Davis and drummer Tim Davis join a list of established jazz performers on faculty at Merit’s Alice S. Pfaelzer Tuition-free Conservatory, which offers college preparatory instruction free ...

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Usdan Center, With Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Free 1/27 Open House; Tuition Freeze Extended Due To Hurricane

December 15, 2012

Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, announces that its tuition freeze, an opportunity for families to pay last year’s rates, a $100 tuition savings, has been extended due to the continuing effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York City and Long Island communities. The tuition ...