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L.A. Music Academy Music Producer Degrees: Spring 2011
Los Angeles Music Academy to Offer Associate of Arts Degree in Music Production Sean Halley Named Music Production Department Chair Pasadena, CA: Los Angeles Music Academy College of Music (www.lamusicacademy.edu) announced that beginning in Spring 2011, it will offer an Associate of Arts in Music Production Degree. The program focuses on managing the production process as ...
National Jazz Museum in Harlem Aquires Long-Lost Collection: Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday & More
NATIONAL JAZZ MUSEUM IN HARLEM ACQUIRES LONG-LOST COLLECTION OF RECORDINGS BY AMERICAN JAZZ ICONS Over 100 hours of live performances capture the golden age of jazz and include Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Artie Shaw, Benny Goodman & More The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) today announced the acquisition of a historic collection of ...
Jazz Band Classic announces auditions for the 2010-2011 season!
Are you a jazz instrumentalist looking for a new musical challenge? Are you 22 or under and enrolled in a Tri-State Region conservatory, college, or high school? Are you looking to play and network with other like-minded musicians and perform with world-renown guest soloists in some of NYC's best venues? Now accepting audition applications for Jazz ...
Further Musings of a Jazz Camp Junkie: 2010
By William S. Sinclair In 2005 I posted an article about some jazz camps I had attended. This is a follow-up to that article. Since that time I have attended three others you might enjoy reading about. North Woods Jazz Camp The first of these, a small and intimate gathering run by Kim Richmond and his ...
Musician Edward Weiss Develops "Paiku" -- A New Piano Improvisation Technique
Teacher, author and composer Edward Weiss has come up with a novel and intriguing method for helping his students learn the joys of musical improvisation (or improv for short) on the piano. He's christened it Paiku—a fusion of the word piano and the Japanese poetic art of haiku. A haiku is a short poem about a ...
Chris Potter's Latest ArtistShare Projects
With his band Underground taking audiences around the world by storm, Chris Potter is clearly one of the most in demand musicians on the scene today. Although Chris' schedule has him touring and traveling consistently, musicians around the world now have the opportunity to learn from Chris' expertise. The Chris Potter Online Lessons project from ArtistShare ...
What I Learned at NMS: You Have 10 Seconds
This post is by Ryan Van Etten (@ryanve), Editor/Producer of VirtualMusic.tv; he was our featured corespondent at New Music Seminar in New York. 10 seconds to engage someone--to impress them. In his research for Futurehit.DNA, Jay Frank discovered an impressive trend: Shorter song intros lead to better sales. “2/3 of bestselling songs have an intro that's ...
Survival Tips for Playing Drums Outdoors
Being drummers, we often have the biggest burden next to the sound system as far as set up. In hot summer months I often have no choice but to have drums packed in a hot vehicle and head straight to the gig after work. Letting drums sit in a car all day where temperatures reach well ...
Jazz Focus at Keystone Camp
Brian Wilensky Abington Journal Correspondent LA PLUME--Keystone College will host its third annual Jazz Institute next week featuring some of the area's leading jazz musicians. The Keystone College Jazz Institute is a weeklong day camp where young jazz players can learn from jazz artists such as Marko Marcinko, James Buckley, Tom Hamilton, Tony Marino, Eddie Severn ...
Litchfield Jazz Camp Presents the 3rd Annual Jazz College Fair Night July 28th
Kent, CT--Litchfield Jazz Camp (est. 1997) is a total jazz immersion where students ages 13 through adult learn and play in a non-competitive environment on the campus of Kent School in Kent, CT. Students rehearse in combos with others at their level 15 hours a week, study music theory, perform and jam, learn from guest artists ...
