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Join Tisja 2009, the Ultimate Jazz Learning Experience This Summer in Taipei!
One of the premier summer jazz education programs in Asia, the annual Taipei International Summer Jazz Academy is planning for its 6th year and larger scale, recruiting even higher-level jazz sensations from all over Asia to participate, and had helped many talented local jazz musicians to develop more on their musical styles and musicianship. Learn with ...
Painted Bride Art Center and John Hollenbeck Collaborate on Big Ears Residency Program
Painted Bride Art Center proudly presents Big Ears, an ambitious residency program that brings together New York-based drummer/composer John Hollenbeck with a dozen Philadelphia jazz musicians. A call to artists, followed by a rigorous selection process, has yielded a group of local artists that transects age, gender, ethnicity, and musical heritage. The program concludes on March ...
Photographer Frank Kuchirchuk Donates Rare 1950s Jazz Photographs to Oberlin
Images of Legends Billie Holiday, Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Art Tatum, Stan Getz and More Taken at Famed Lindsay's Sky Bar in Cleveland OBERLIN, OHIO -- Frank Kuchirchuk, a retired photographer who took live performance photographs of some of the greatest jazz artists during the height of their careers, has donated his entire collection of jazz ...
New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising Over Lady Bird
Improvising Over Lady Bird Explore Hank Jones' improvisational concept by examining the melodic content of his solo over the changes to the 1948 Tadd Dameron tune Lady Bird from his 2008 IPO Records release, Our Delight. After considering his use of chord tones, scale passages, arpeggios, approach patterns, tensions, phrasing and his use of chromaticism, take ...
Vibist Jerry Tachoir Takes Jazz to the Classroom
A Grant from the Community Foundation, The Tennessee Arts Commission, the Musicians Performance Trust, and the Hendersonville Arts Council has provided an opportunity for Middle School and High School Students in Middle Tennessee to experience The Jerry Tachoir Group Live. This is probably the first and only time these students might get an opportunity to be ...
Terence Blanchard's Words and Music
By Barry Johnson, The Oregonian Saturday February 14, 2009, 8:15 AM The Portland Jazz Festival started off this year with Terence Blanchard, the New Orleans hard-bop trumpeter/band leader/ and film-score composer. He headlined the opening-night concert Friday and he was the first Jazz Conversation earlier in the day. The ...
National Guitar Workshop's 2009 Season with Pat Metheny, Pat Martino, Jimmy Herring, Buddy Guy and More
National Guitar Workshop Announces 2009 Season With Special Guests Buddy Guy, Paul Gilbert, Jimmy Herring, Jimmie Vaughan and Pat Metheny The National Guitar Workshop is proud to announce our 2009 season. This year we will be presenting week long workshops across the country and featuring guest artists such as Paul Gilbert, Buddy Guy, Jimmy Herring, Pat ...
Harpists Brandee Younger and Megan Sesma to Work in Guatemala
Two versatile harpists, Brandee Younger and Megan Sesma, will be showcasing their love for teaching and performing through the Guatemala Harp Teaching Project. February 17-26, the two talented instrumentalists will be volunteering their time to travel to Guatemala to coach and teach for a short period of time at venues which will include El Conservatorio Nacional ...
Musicians' Composition Residency at Flushing Town Hall
NYC Performing Arts Spaces, a program of Fractured Atlas, is sponsoring the newly-created Con Ed Musicians' Residency: Composition Program. Summary This pilot residency will provide three (3) individual composers with daytime, weekday use of suitable composition and rehearsal space in Flushing Town Hall (FTH), in Flushing, Queens, for a three-month period. FTH is a ...
Thanks for a Jazzman Relentlessly Spreading the Music
MARK MORGANELLI began building a legacy in the 1970s, booking big- time shows for his college jazz band. Today, he is among Westchester’s most prolific presenters, regularly staging concerts in major halls and jazz-starved communities alike. At the same time, he maintains a career as a trumpeter dedicated to broadening Westchester’s cultural palate. Little wonder that ...


