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Westchester Jazz Orchestra Offers Free Clinic to Local School
Westchester, NY -- The Westchester Jazz Orchestra received national recognition last year with the release of its debut CD, All In, which reached #4 in radio airplay across the US and Canada. Described by critics as hugely impressive, exceptional, and setting a standard in big band modern jazz, the sixteen-piece WJO performs an annual concert series ...
Students Make Latin Connection
It's not unusual for teenage boys to play in a band, but 15-year-old Chase Morrin not only plays in several different types of bands, he performs professionally with all of them throughout San Diego County. Morrin, a piano-playing sophomore at Canyon Crest Academy, recently performed with his band, the Latin Connection Quintet at Dizzy's in San ...
Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher
Its tough trying to maintain an active lifestyle and wanting to learn piano at the same time. Not only that, but piano lessons with good teachers are expensive and its often really difficult to schedule lessons. So to fit it all in to a filled-to-the-gills schedule more and more students have turned to taking their piano ...
Emeryville Taiko Announces Classes Events
Happy New Year from Emeryville Taiko! Susan Horn and all the Emeryville Taiko students wish you a joyous 2009! We are starting the year energized and ready to drum! Whether your new year's resolution is to get more exercise, make new friends, develop your musical side, or have more fun, taiko may be just what you ...
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 ...
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