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Savannah Music Festival Awarded Jazz.Next Implementation Grant to Support New Jazz Technology Project
Center for New American Media and Heideldesign selected as project partners Savannah, Georgia -- SWING CENTRAL, the nationally acclaimed high school jazz band competition and workshop produced by the Savannah Music Festival (SMF), is the subject of a new media project that utilizes technology to enhance the promotion of jazz music and education. SMF is one ...
Hohner Launches "How to Blow the Blues" iPhone Application
Hohner, Inc., announces the release of its first iPhone application for harmonica entitled “How to Blow The Blues." For a purchase price of $1.99 from the iTunes App Store, iPhone users can learn how to play a 12-bar blues lick on harmonica by following on-screen animation and audio/video demonstrations. Users can then play the newly learned ...
New Years Resolutions: This is the Year to Play Piano
Another year has flown by, and its hard to believe were already passing the first decade of the 21st century. Instead of making New Year's resolutions you know you wont be keeping, why not do something different for a change? Make a worthwhile New Years resolution to learn how to compose and play your very own ...
The Future of Music and the Music Business Online at the Berklee College of Music
I'm honored to have been asked to teach The Future Of Music And The Music Business online course for The Berklee College of Music. The course was inspired by Dave Kusak and Gerd Leonhard's seminal book The Future of Music: Manifesto for the Digital Music Revolution and is constantly evolving as the music business evolves. ...
First Miles Davis Multimedia Museum Exhibition in Canada
From April 30 to August 29, 2010, the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts will pay tribute to Miles Davis (1926-1991) in We Want Miles: Miles Davis, Jazz Legend, the first multimedia retrospective museum exhibition in Canada of one of the twentieth centurys greatest musicians. Featuring recordings of the jazz artist's most iconic pieces; film and documentary ...
Campus Musicians Receive Gift From Pianist Earl Hines' Estate
BERKELEY -- The gift to the University of California, Berkeley, of the bulk of famous jazz pianist Earl “Fatha" Hines' estate will provide exceptionally gifted low-income students with free musical instruction and the campus's music library with his collection of papers, compositions and memorabilia. Hines' musical archive will become the cornerstone at the Jean Gray Hargrove ...
Jazz Workshops in Weimar, Germany
Originally a spin-off from Yiddish Summer Weimar, Winter Edition has taken on its own life and identity as a festival/institute for music improvisation, the voice, the body and awareness. Under the direction of Alan Bern and with an outstanding international faculty, the atmosphere of Winter Edition is at the same time interdisciplinary, holistic, intensive, inspiring and ...
Grammy Award Winning Harmonica Virtuoso Howard Levy Launches the First Online Personal Video Exchange Harmonica School
Grammy Award winner Howard Levy in conjunction with ArtistWorks Inc. (AWI), is excited to launch The Howard Levy Harmonica School (HLHS) - the first ever online personal video exchange school that will teach students around the world to play harmonica, including the various genres of jazz, blues, folk, classical and world music. Partnered with online video ...
Terry Teachout to Speak December 16 at Maryville University
Writer Terry Teachout, who spurred considerable controversy in certain circles this summer with a Wall Street Journal article about declining audiences for jazz, is coming to St. Louis on Wednesday, December 16 to speak at Maryville University about his latest book.From the news release:“Author, blogger and critic Terry Teachout discusses his latest book, ...
Announcing the Midwest Clinic Jazz and Chamber Center
Jazz Program to Expand Dramatically at 2009 Conference; Ellis Marsalis and Wayne Bergeron Among the Featured Artists EVANSTON, IL A dramatically expanded jazz program awaits educators at the 2009 Midwest Clinic, in the new Midwest Clinic Jazz and Chamber Center. At the upcoming annual conference, jazz concerts and clinics will almost double from the previous year, ...
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