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Jazz Education Network Formed to Fill Void Left by IAJE Collapse

June 7, 2008

After the startling bankruptcy of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) this spring, the jazz arts community lacked a formal organization to unify jazz education professionals and students. As of June 1, the newly launched Jazz Education Network aims to fill that void. The Jazz Education Network was launched after two days of meetings in ...

Master Class Featuring la Studio Artist Rob Mullins

June 7, 2008

Presented by Warehouse 21 & New Mexico Jazz Workshop Date: June 26, 2008 Time: 4:30pm - 5:30pm Place: Warehouse 21 Location: 1614 Paseo de Peralta, SFNM 87501 (East of Site Santa Fe) Price: FREE and open to emerging musicians from teens to adults

LA Music Academy Details Its Summer Program for 2008

June 5, 2008

Pasadena, CA - June 5, 2008 - LA Music Academy announced specifics today for its upcoming annual Summer Program, running June 23 through July 3 and open to all interested musicians who have received at least one year of private instruction. In addition to learning from and playing with some of Southern California's top professional musicians, ...

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June 3, 2008

Improvising Over Yardbird Suite In the latest installment of the “Improvising Over . . ." series, watch as a transcribed solo of Hank Jones improvising over the changes to Yardbird Suite from his 1977 recording Bop Redux (re-released on the 1998 double CD Master Class- see below) is analyzed to see how he uses chord tones, ...

Jazz Went Back to College

June 2, 2008

A lesson in American musical history A visit with the Harvard Westlake Jazz Explorers Jazz went to college back in the heyday of Dave Brubeck, when block chords and 5/4 time were considered way rad. It was the 1950s, and the screaming guitar had yet to strike. But now jazz is going to prep ...

Berklee to Audition Musicians in Accra, Ghana, and Durban, South Africa, for Scholarship Opportunities

May 28, 2008

Berklee College of Music, the world's leading institution for the study of contemporary music, announces the creation of the Africa Scholars Program. The college will be holding audition and interview (A&I) events offering talented musicians the chance to be awarded scholarships to attend the college. Auditions, open to citizens of any African nation, will be conducted ...

Newark Museum and WBGO-Jazz Presents Master Classes

May 27, 2008

The Newark Museum and WBGO-Jazz 88 will offer free master classes for aspiring jazz musicians, age 13 and older, on June 19 with saxophonist David Murray and July 17 with percussionist Bobby Sanabria, following their performances at The Museum's Jazz in the Garden Summer Concert Series performances. The free classes are supported, in part, by a ...

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May 21, 2008

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Jazz at Lincoln Center Announces Winners of 13th Annual Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition

May 20, 2008

IAJE: Gone, Gone, Gone... What's Next?

May 16, 2008

Now that the deed has been done and the International Association for Jazz Education has seemingly folded its tent and significantly filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy protection a filing quite different from the more familiar Chapter 11 which would at least leave the door ajar for some form of organizational recovery as Ricky Schultz pleads in ...