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Announcing Monterey Jazz Festival's Second Annual Latin Jazz Clinic for Music Teachers and Students, November 6, 2010
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Second Annual Latin Jazz Clinic for Music Teachers and Students Free Two-Hour Music Clinic Takes Place November 6, 2010 at Hartnell College in Salinas International Latin Jazz Recording Artists Part of MJF's Traveling Clinicians Program The Monterey Jazz Festival, a leader in jazz education since 1958, is proud to announce the Second ...
Fostering Communities That Support Creativity
This weekend, I had a chance to make a trip back home. Much of what I believe in doesn't exist there. When I tell people, some of which I've known for my whole life, that I write for a blog on the web and get paid for it, I am greeted with a blank stare. To ...
Bill Bruford announces U.S. lecture dates in December
Summerfold Records in conjunction with Tama Drums and Jawbone Press is pleased to announce dates for drummer, band-leader, author Bill Bruford's upcoming US lectures: December 1 Guitar Center, Manhattan, NYC, NY December 2 Drummers Collective, NYC, NY December 3 Manhattan School of Music, NYC, NY December 6 U.Arts Philadelphia, PA (private-students only) December 7 The Drum ...
New Lesson Just Released: Improvise Over In Your Own Sweet Way
Improvising Over In Your Own Sweet Way The Dave Brubeck standard, In Your Own Sweet Way, presents a challenge to improvisors: how to solo over a progression that spans a wide range of keys at a fast tempo. It starts in G minor, moves to Bb, Gb, D, C and then Db in it's thirty-two bars. ...
Dave Peck Improv Clinic This Wednesday - Free!
Pianist Dave Peck will be presenting a free improvisation clinic at The Seattle Drum School this Wednesday, October 27 at 7:30pm. The clinic will include discussions of the use of musical vocabulary in jazz improvisation, visualization as a learning technique for acquiring vocabulary and muscle memory, and theme and development in improvisation. Players of all melodic ...
Theta Music Trainer Offers New Online Games for Music Learning
Theta Music Trainer opened today, providing a complete set of online games designed to teach the fundamental skills of music. Using the latest developments in music learning techniques, Theta Music Trainer is designed for musicians of all levels who want to deepen their understanding of music and improve their ability to play music by ear. Musicians ...
Concert Review - Pat Metheny at Binghamton University (2010)
By Mark Saleski Oh dear, I was this close to feeling disappointed. I loved the Orchestrion concept and music so much that tickets were procured and a trip was planned (across southern New Hampshire, Vermont, and all the way out past Albany to Binghamton, NY) to see what Pat Metheny would do with his creation in ...
Student Composers and the Elements of Style
When I sat down to observe Dave Douglas's recent workshop on composition, I figured I was going to hear about his strategies regarding musical composition, and particularly his advice to young musicians/budding composers. The two-night workshop was part of Douglas's residency at the Walker Art Center, where he would be performing the Midwest premiere of his ...
Jazz Arts Group Awarded $10,000 from Coldwell Banker King Thompson for American Jazz Experience
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has been awarded $10,000 by Coldwell Banker King Thompson to help subsidize the presentation and promotion of jazz through the Jazz Academy's American Jazz Experience in-school assembly program. Developed and presented by Columbus Jazz Orchestra trombonist Jim Masters, the American Jazz Experience quintet features some of Columbus' finest jazz ...
Savannah Music Festival Launches Free Jazz Education Website
SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL LAUNCHES FREE WEB-BASED LEARNING CENTER FOR ASPIRING JAZZ MUSICIANS AT SWINGCENTRALJAZZ.ORG Savannah, Georgia—Recently praised as the “Pro Bowl of high school jazz band competitions" by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, SWING CENTRAL JAZZ (SCJ) has become a year-round jazz education program with the launch of its multimedia web-based learning center at swingcentraljazz.org. The ...
