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Jazz at Lincoln Center's "Swing University" Program this Fall
Learn about jazz from the musicians who make it and the scholars who study it though Jazz at Lincoln Center’s “Swing University” program this fall. The program offers the opportunity to hear your favorite music anew as professionals such as Phil Schaap and Lewis Nash share their insights, expertise and tall tales. The program offers several ...
Jazz St. Louis Looking For School Groups, Student Musicians to Take Part in Educational Programs
With the start of another school year, Jazz St. Louis' various education programs are getting underway, too: * JSL is accepting applications for its JazzU program through this Friday, September 5. JazzU is “a series of weekly workshops geared towards middle and high school students who have a desire to become better jazz musicians. ...
New on JazzPianoOnline.com: The Jazz Blues Progression
The Jazz Blues Progression When the blues is played in a jazz context the chord progression is more sophisticated in the number and types of chords used. In addition to the basic I, IV, V chords, jazz blues incorporates major and minor ii-V progressions, substitute dominants, related ii chords and more. In keeping with the improvisatory ...
Ray Vega Joins UVM Faculty, Helps Build Burlington's Reputation as 'Jazz Capital of New England'
Ray Vega is multi-tasking. He sat for a chat Wednesday in the University of Vermont Recital Hall, in the same building where the newest faculty member in UVM's jazz-studies program is rushing to set up his new office in time for Tuesday's start of the school year. While in the Recital Hall he fielded a few ...
Jazz Library a High Note for UNT
A lone horn's wail echoes in the hallway of the music building at the University of North Texas as a music student shuffles down the hall carrying her instrument. The student may not know it, but she's one step closer to a jazz music legend. A moving van delivered the 400-piece Maynard Ferguson library to the ...
Fall Events Sponsored by the Institute of Jazz Studies, Rutgers-Newark
RUTGERS UNIVERSITY Institute of Jazz Studies Jazz Events, Fall 2008 Attached is a schedule of events at the Institute of Jazz Studies for the Fall semester. In addition to our longstanding Jazz Research Roundtable forum, we are also presenting a a new solo piano series: Jazz Piano--Four Generations, featuring the work of ...
Class Acts: Jazz 101 and Beyond
When I wanted to learn how to make sushi, I took a class at Cooks. Curious about Venice, I signed up for a Compleat Scholar course at the University of Minnesota. If I ever decide to try Bharatanatyam dancing, I'll go to Ragamala. We live where classes are available on almost anything, including jazz. Beginning in ...
Jazz Legend Maynard Ferguson's Music Library is Headed to UNT
DENTON -- Jazz legend Maynard Ferguson's entire music library will be located at the University of North Texas, and his extensive collection of memorabilia, horns, wardrobe and awards will likely be housed at a museum in Denton, the university has announced. An anonymous donor and a foundation bought Ferguson's estate for $600,000, UNT music professor Steve ...
These Little Kids Think Coltrane is Cool
At Harvard's Graduate School of Education, Howard Gardner has long taught his theory of multiple intelligences to enable his students, when they enter their own classrooms, to understand and nurture these various strengths in the youngsters they teach. As explained by a Gardner practitioner, second-grade teacher Christine Passarella, in last fall's Adelphi University newsletter: “In the ...
FCC to Kick Off DTV Transition Education Tour
Having just wrapped its white spaces tour, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will hit the road once again to educate consumers about the upcoming digital television transition. The five commissioners and FCC staff will fan out across the nation over the next few months to ensure that citizens are not left in the dark come February ...
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