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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 ...
Grant Opportunity: French-American Jazz Exchange - October 15, 2008 Deadline
Chamber Music America and the French American Cultural Exchange are now accepting applications to the French-American Jazz Exchange Program. Created by Chamber Music America, the French Embassy, and the French American Cultural Exchange, this program fosters collaborations between French and American jazz artists. Projects may include composition, touring, recording, and/or audience development; and activities may take ...
A Singer's Guide to Reading Rhythms
Coming This Fall From D.O.M. Music Publishing A digital download at freehandmusic.com A Singer's Guide To Reading Rhythms By Dom Minasi Endorsements Bob Gerardi: Adjunct Professor at New York University and Author of Opportunities In Music Careers. Singer, pianist, composer, actor and vocal coach “I wish I had this book when I first started singing. It ...
Career on a Grand Scale
TAMPA - Whenever he hears about budget cuts in music education, James Crumbly gets a sinking sensation in the pit of his stomach. For him, life without music would be unfathomable. “Just take away music for one day and see what life would be like," Crumbly said. “No singing, no radios, no instruments, no background music. ...
Renowned Jazz Guitarist Mark Elf Debuts Jazz Guitar Conservatory
MarkElfConservatory.com offers students affordable, practical approach to learning jazz guitar with video lessons, narrated tutorials, music PDF and midi-files, access to critiques by Mark Elf and much more Master jazz guitarist Mark Elf, who has worked with the Jazz Giants, Dizzy Gillespie, The Heath Brothers, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Jon Hendricks and many others, and has ...
