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Jazz St. Louis Holding Auditions in June for All-Stars, JazzU Programs
Jazz St. Louis has announced the dates for area music students to audition for the 2009-2010 JazzU and Jazz St. Louis All-Stars programs. Auditions for both programs will be held at 4:00 p.m. Monday, June 1 and Monday, June 8 at Jazz at the Bistro. Auditions for JazzU and the Jazz St. Louis All-Stars ...
Greg Osby Featured in RFT Story
Saxophonist and St. Louis native Greg Osby is back home this week doing an educational residency for Jazz St. Louis and performances on Friday and Saturday at Jazz at the Bistro. I had a chance to talk with Osby a couple of weeks ago about coming up in St. Louis, jazz education, and various other topics ...
Aguilar Amplification Announces Master Class with Gary Willis
Aguilar Amplification, maker of high-quality bass amplifiers, speaker cabinets and accessories for bassists is pleased to announce the continuation of their Artist Series Master Classes on Tuesday, May 12, 2009 with endorsing artist, Gary Willis. An in-demand clinician, Willis has lectured in over 20 countries and currently teaches improvisation and arranging at the prestigious Escola Superior ...
Peter Erskine, Jon Faddis to Present Free Master Classes April 17 and 18 at the Touhill
In conjunction with their appearances next week as guest artists for the Greater St. Louis Jazz Festival, drummer Peter Erskine and trumpeter Jon Faddis will present free master classes on their respective instruments. Erskine's drum classes will be from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. on Friday, April 17 and 12:00 p.m. to 12:45 p.m. ...
New Lesson Just Added on jazzpianoonline.com: Improv Drill: Approach Patterns
NEW Lesson Just Added: Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Improv Drill: Approach Patterns Part 1 Joe Zawinul is perhaps best known as a fusion-based synthesist, co-founder of the popular jazz-rock group Weather Report and explorer of World Music styles as leader of his band the Joe Zawinul Syndicate. But he played straight-ahead jazz on the acoustic piano ...
Global Music Foundation Jazz Seminars/Workshops/Festivals: Croatia, Tuscany, Germany, and Cork
Seminars and workshops GMF is running five seminars this year, all of which are open to musicians from all over the world: Krk International Summer School and Jazz Festival in Croatia, 11-15 July, 2009 International Jazz Workshop, Saarwellingen, Germany, 10-14 August, 2009 Tuscany Jazz Vocal Summer School, Certaldo, Italy, 18-25 August, 2009 Cork Jazz Festival, 23-26 ...
Participate in U. Penn Musician Study
Dear Musician, Do people really know what it's like to be a professional musician? Do musicians themselves even know what their peers think and do? A large-scale groundbreaking new study from a University of Pennsylvania researcher (and musician) is attempting to find out. This study is different from all prior studies on musicians in that ...
Columbia College Students Learn About Music Industry from the Pros
The future leaders of the music industrybe they aspiring singers, instrumentalists or producershave to start somewhere. On Friday, that place was the downtown campus of Columbia College Chicago, where industry professionals met with more than 120 high school students as part of Grammy Career Day. The free program was co-hosted by Grammy in the Schools and ...
New on jazzpianoonline.com: The Major II-V-I Progression Update
This lesson will introduce you to this universal and ever-present jazz progression by starting with it's derivation from the major scale all the way through to building, identifying and playing major key ii-V-Is in tunes. Update includes: Expanded and improved video lesson; new quizzes; expanded and improved practice sessions and bonus licks from Tommy Flanagans 1977 ...
Seattle Times: Hot Java Cool Jazz: A Showcase of High-School Bands at the Paramount
from The Seattle Times: For the past 10 years, high-school jazz bands from Washington state have accounted for nearly one-quarter of the finalists in the prestigious Essentially Ellington band competition in New York City. True to form, three schools from the Seattle area are sending bands to the 15-band Ellington competition in May: Garfield, Roosevelt and ...


