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Jazz for Kids: Stix Hooper and Bobby Rodriguez
Jazz luminaries Stix Hooper and Bobby Rodriguez, fronting an ensemble of professional instrumentalists, opened the ears and minds of Santa Ynez Valley students Sept. 25 at Solvang School. More than 800 kids from local schools filled the bleachers and floor of the school’s gym as Rodriguez, Hooper and the band took them through the various forms ...
Jackie Robinson and Jazz!
By Eddie Becton, All About Jazz: Los Angeles Everyone knows the enduring legacy Jackie Robinson created on the baseball field in 1947, becoming the first African American to play in Major League Baseball. The very act of stepping to the plate on that historic day, April 15th, helped Robinson cement his name in the annals of ...
Jazz Goes to School Returns to Eagle County Schools This Week
The Vail Jazz Foundation’s ‘Jazz Goes to School’ musical education program for fourth and fifth graders returns to Eagle County elementary schools today through Thursday. This innovative approach to teaching jazz music and social studies will reach over 1,000 students during the 2008/09 school year. The program, which is in its 11th year, is designed to ...
New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Three Benny Green Licks
Three Benny Green Licks Benny Green is a hard swinging and intense modern jazz pianist built from the hard bop mold. Influenced by Bud Powell, Phineas Newborn and Oscar Peterson, his solos are both technically challenging yet harmonically straightforward, adhering closely to the underlying chord progression. An overflowing font of bebop licks, his solos are an ...
New Age Piano Music Meets the Internet
If youre at all into the New Age Music scene, then the names George Winston and David Lanz are already well known. But now theres a new name on the horizon Edward Weiss. Hailing from beautiful San Diego in sunny California, this teacher, composer and published author does the seemingly impossible: Teaching anyone (and Edward stresses ...
DCA Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center
Department of Cultural Affairs Announces Grand Opening of the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center Los Angeles, CA - A new art facility specifically dedicated to young people and named in honor of Charles Mingus will be inaugurated by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) on September 28, 2008, at 11:30 a.m. Program ...
Jerry Tachoir Clinic/Concert Cal State - Long Beach
Jazz mallet artist, Jerry Tachoir will present a clinic at Cal State Long Beach on November 21. There will be an evening concert featuring Mr. Tachoir that same evening with the Big Band. Call the school for more information. California State University Long Beach 1250 N Bellflower Blvd Long Beach, CA 90840 ...
New on JazzPianoOnline.com: Improvising with Motivic Development
Improvising with Motivic Development Motivic development is the compositional technique of creating a melody that is made up of a single melodic idea (a motive) that is subsequently “developed" by being repeated, altered, modified or transformed melodically and/or rhythmically. As a technique of improvisation, it can help you create strong, logical, coherent and interesting solos. Learn ...
Philharmonic Plants Youth Orchestra Seed
Youth Orchestra L.A. -- YOLA for short -- turns the traditional youth orchestra model “completely on its head," said Gretchen Nielsen, the Philharmonic's director of educational initiatives. Whereas most youth orchestras select only the best musicians and sometimes charge fees, YOLA gives free instruments and lessons, signing up everyone it can, she said. A few weeks ...
Redefining Play Along
An acclaimed jazz guitarist comes to town Musicians from around the world can now experience playing along in a live performance with world class musicians. Internationally acclaimed jazz guitarist Vinny Valentino is redefining what play along jazz (music minus one) is. “I have students all over the world and they all have one thing in common... ...
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