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All-Star Jazz Lineup Draws Nation's Top High School Jazz Bands to Savannah for Swing Central 2009
Aspiring young musicians to perform and study with esteemed clinicians including Associate Artistic Director Marcus Roberts, Wycliffe Gordon, John Clayton, James Ketch and Terell Stafford Savannah, Georgia - Savannah Music Festival (SMF) has selected twelve outstanding high school jazz bands from eight states across the nation to participate in the fourth annual SWING CENTRAL High School ...
Ballet Studio Transports Urban Kids to Another World
The City of Angels Ballet offers free classical ballet training to hundreds of children from some of Los Angeles' toughest neighborhoods. The Sugarplum Fairy, sweat glistening on her brow, performed the same sequence of steps over and over across the polished wood floor, looking by turns euphoric and miserable. Sprawled next to the piano stretching their ...
Daily D.I.Y. - Be a Student of the Music Business
This new daily Hypebot feature will be 90% practical and less than 10% philosophical. Enough people have already told you as artists, indie label staffers and new music industry professionals that “it's time for a new paradigm" and “remember the fan is king". This five day a week column will profile free and affordable artist services, ...
A Destination, Never an Arrival: Essay by Steve Khan
A few days ago, I had just finished saying “Adios!" to my houseguests, who came to visit for a night in New York. During their time here, we had a wonderful and long conversation that embraced so many areas of life. As we three are all musicians, of course, the conversation, at some point, turned to ...
Hollywood's Musicians Institute Teaches the Endangered Art of A & R
In the troubled music industry, many labels have cut or eliminated their artists-and- repertoire staff. But instructors at MI are determined to teach the skill of making a musical connection. Once upon a time, A&R were the sexiest letters in the music industry's alphabet. Executives in the artists-and-repertoire division of every major record label were charged ...
"The Jazz Pianists: Eighty Years in Review" at Mira Costa High School (Manhattan Beach) in January and February
A Multimedia Educational/Entertainment Experience of the South Bay Adult School Robert Bragonier, MD, PhD Retired Physician Educator and Administrator Jazz Reviewer and Educator--Lifelong Jazz Enthusiast Mira Costa High School 701 S. Peck Ave. Manhattan Beach, CA (Peck Ave. at Artesia Blvd.) Room 41 Five ...
Theater, Jazz Venues Officially Historic
A theater on Baronne Street, an eight-story former telephone company building on Poydras Street and a group of small commercial buildings on South Rampart Street -- structures without a lot in common except that they are New Orleans' newest officially designated landmarks. The Central Business District panel of the Historic District Landmarks Commission voted recently to ...
Victorville Scholar Brings Order to Dyslexia
When Eric Atkinson was growing up in Victorville, some of his teachers told him he was stupid. “You get told something so many times in so many ways and it starts to get to you," he said. “I almost didn't graduate from high school because of this, my low self-esteem." He is not stupid. Far from ...
Musicians Give Back
We are very excited to share with you what Rhythmworkz was involved up in Reno last week. An opportunity was made available for Larry Washington, Joe Alessandro, Mike Sims and Kevin Flournoy to lead some clinics & classes, and perform at assemblies in two schools in the Washoe County School District in Reno. The initial contact ...
Berklee to Hold Scholarship Auditions in Australia for the First Time
Berklee College of Music, the world's premier college of contemporary music, will be holding audition and interview (A&I) events in Australia for the first time as part of the college’s World Scholarship Tour. Berklee’s A&I events offer talented musicians the chance to be awarded scholarships to attend the college. Auditions will be held in Melbourne on ...
