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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 ...
With All That Jazz out There, Where Do I Start?
“We Always Swing" Jazz Series Assistant Director Greg Aker knows about jazz education. As someone who has studied the genre and taught it to children, he is used to all sorts of responses - “I don't like jazz" must be high on that list. But that's a major misconception, Aker said. “Jazz is not the snooty ...
The Beauty of Jazz
Great jazz artists fashion a unique manner of playing that expresses their musical personality. Jazz performance requires dynamic creativity, great knowledge of the jazz forms, and an incredible ability to distill life experience into musical expression. Jazz as a type of music was first developed by African Americans around the first decades of the 20th century ...
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Introduction to Chordscale Theory Chordscale theory describes the interdependent relationship of harmony and melody. It states that chords serve specific roles within a key which determine the scales that are associated with those chords which, in turn, represent a palette of available notes that can be used for improvisation. This theory is fundamental to learning how ...
Jazz Player Kirk Whalum Connects with Young Fans
Just as the late Oklahoma jazz guitarist Charlie Christian made a lasting impression on today's artists with his compositions, jazz saxophonist Kirk Whalum is connecting with the next generation as an artist-in-residence, and with fans through technology. It is a beautiful, sunny day in Memphis, and Whalum, 50, has been in the studio, compiling tracks for ...
Children Schooled on ABCs of Jazz
When listening to jazz, many forget that the genre is linked to blues. For that reason, Felice Green, a member of the Handy festival board of directors, has been organizing the ABCs of Jazz for the W.C. Handy Music Festival since the festival began. On Tuesday, area children and adults gathered at Mount Moriah Family Life ...
Jazz for Kids: Jazzed up About Music
Through performance, band teaches children value of genre at Knights of Columbus Hall LANCASTER - Larry Cook believes in the educational power of jazz music. With the help of his double-string bass - and four other musicians - he attempted to pass his knowledge of jazz on to a very special audience Monday - children. “Our ...
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