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What is a Jam Session?

May 4, 2010

They announced I was leading it so I asked, and got blank stares in return. It was clearly the wrong question, so I followed up: Is it Standards? Is it Free Improvisation? Is it a reading of original compositions? Is it preformed groups getting up to play? It is musicians who don't normally play together ad ...

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Clinic/Performance Submission Guidelines for 2011 JEN Conference

May 3, 2010

January 6 - 8, 2011 - New Orleans, LA All submissions should be related to the JEN mission statement in some form: advancing education, promoting performance and developing new audiences. You must be a current member of JEN in order to submit an application. Completing the JEN Online Application Form is a requirement in order to ...

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Pat Metheny Masterclass on Friday

April 28, 2010

Seventeen-time Grammy award winning guitarist Pat Metheny makes a special appearance at the School of Music on Friday, April 30, noon to 1 p.m. at Brechemin Auditorium when he leads a clinic with UW jazz students. The event is free and open to the public. Friday, April 30, 2010 Noon to 1 p.m. LOCATION: ...

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Jazz off inn Banff

April 28, 2010

Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music Program dates: May 17, 2010 - June 5, 2010 Application deadline: January 15, 2010 Being here at Banff made me realize that each artist has the duty of presenting their art with honesty and clarity, through whatever moves their heart and hopefully moves the ...

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Jazz Pianist Lenore Raphael to Direct Summer Jazz Camp

April 28, 2010

Jazz pianist Lenore Raphael has been touring extensively and doing Master Classes internationally in such diverse locations as the Edinburgh Conservatory of Music in Edinbrugh, Scotland, the Colorado Springs Conservatory in Colorado Springs, Colorado, Boca Raton, Florida Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton and next fall in Bayreuth Germany at the Steingraeber Piano venue. She has ...

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Alaska Jazz Workshop

April 26, 2010

The Alaska Jazz Workshop is a non-profit organization designed to teach young people jazz. Based at the University of Alaska, Anchorage, professional jazz musicians take time to pass on their skills and knowledge to the next generation so that the heartbeat of jazz will will keep on beating and more young people will live fuller lives. ...

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'Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives

April 21, 2010

Exhibition review: 'Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown' at MOCA-PDC The photographs on display in “Las Vegas Studio: Images From the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown" have been rescued, in essence, from the cutting-room floor. It just happens to be one of the richest, most ...

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Swing Central 2010 Finishes with Unprecedented Momentum for Fostering the Growth of Jazz Through High-Quality Mentorship

April 20, 2010

Dillard Center for the Arts from Ft. Lauderdale Takes Home the First Place Faircloth Award Savannah, Georgia -- On Friday, April 2nd, the 2010 edition of the Savannah Music Festival's (SMF) SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop, dubbed the “Pro Bowl of high school jazz bands" by the South ...

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The Living Arts Apprenticeship Program 2010

April 18, 2010

An innovative 12 day “live-on-the-land" / cross-disciplinary arts program, located in New York's Catskill Mountains Drum-set study with Amir Ziv Aikido study with Gadi Shorr Music composition & orchestration with Jordan McLean Join Amir, Gadi & Jordan in a converted cow-barn home on 7 acres in beautiful Catskills, NY for an intensive Drumming, Aikido & Music ...

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Beating the drum for Phoenix's Musical Instrument Museum

April 18, 2010

Former Target CEO Robert Ulrich wants to represent the musical culture of every country on the planet. What has more impact on people's lives day in and day out than music? Robert Ulrich Not long before Robert Ulrich stepped down from his long-held job as CEO of Target Stores upon reaching the company's mandatory ...