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Ronnie Burrage Coming to St. Louis Next Month for Performances, Workshop
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 ...
Unique Approach To Piano Playing Helps With Seasonal Affective Disorder
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 ...
Jazz Legends Hancock And Shorter Named Distinguished Professors At Monk Institute
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 ...
Learn Jazz Improvisation with Jazz Apps Mobile's Iimprov Series
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, ...
Trumpeter Art Davis, Drummer Tim Davis Join Merit School Of Music Tuition-free Conservatory
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 ...
Usdan Center, With Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Free 1/27 Open House; Tuition Freeze Extended Due To Hurricane
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 ...
Mizzou International Composers Festival Announces Resident Composers For 2013
Columbia, MO – After considering the largest number of applicants yet in the event’s four-year history, the University of Missouri School of Music and the Mizzou New Music Initiative today announced the eight resident composers selected for next year’s Mizzou International Composers Festival (http://composersfestival.missouri.edu/). Formerly known as the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival, the 2013 Mizzou ...
Usdan Center, With Expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open House 12/2
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the renowned summer arts day camp whose Jazz Department was created by Dr. Billy Taylor, announces its next free Open House for its 2013 summer season on Sunday December 2 from 11 AM to 2 PM. Artists including Jimmy Heath, Jon Faddis, Arturo O'Farrill, Randy Brecker ((Marian McPartland}} ...
Modern Jazz Guitarist Hristo Vitchev's New Video Masterclass "Harmonic Expansions" - Now Available
Bulgarian modern jazz guitarist/composer Hristo Vitchev demonstrates material from his book on chordal theory and construction: “Between the Voicings" in a comprehensive video lesson exclusively available through JazzGuitarSociety.com In this video masterclass, Hristo Vitchev demonstrates how to expand your chordal vocabulary by breaking away from the traditional “Drop 2" and “Drop 2 & 4" voicings and ...
Over 1,000 Jazz Guitarists Sign Up For Free Online Guitar Lessons
Online lessons are changing the way people learn music, including how to play jazz guitar. Martin Taylor, the world's most popular online solo jazz guitar teacher, is joining in that disruption by offering a free jazz guitar course. Over 1,000 guitarists signed up to this free course within the first three days. Though Martin Taylor's course ...
