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"No Charts!" Ensemble for Middle and High School Students in Columbus
Leave your reading glasses at home! The No Charts" Ensemble is all about using your ears! This course is designed to introduce students to playing their instruments by ear, an experience that will open new avenues of creativity for every participant. Every day we will memorize a simple tune or two and improvise without reading notes ...
Teaching Music Through Performance in Jazz
Teaching Music through Performance in Jazz is a significant new resource containing valuable information for the most experienced to novice music educator. Utilizing this text as a basis for coursework, participants will engage discussions of music/jazz theory and history as well as analyze and rehearse jazz band arrangements (please bring your instrument). Through discussion, lecture and ...
Ohio Piano Teacher Training in Columbus Throughout June
Focus On Jazz - Teacher Training Workshop This three-session workshop is designed specifically for traditional studio piano teachers who have some or no experience with jazz or blues but would like to integrate these styles into their teaching and playing. Through lecture, demonstration, written example, and hands-on experience, participants will learn how to integrate a teaching ...
Herb Alpert Donates $15 Million to CalArts
COLLEGE ENDOWMENT: Herb Alpert and his wife, Lani Hall Alpert, have a long-range plan for music education The multi-Grammy winner has given $15 million to the School of Music at the California Institute of the Arts. Eight-time Grammy winner and Los Angeles native Herb Alpert, who in November pledged $30 million to UCLA to establish the ...
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members of the 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra
Monterey Jazz Festival Announces Members Of The 2008 Next Generation Jazz Orchestra 21 High School Musicians From 11 States Comprise MJF's Renowned National Big Band NGJO Performs At North Sea Jazz Festival In Rotterdam, The Netherlands, July 9 - 11 NGJO Performs At Berklee College Of Music, July 15 Next Generation Composition ...
Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute Shatters Enrollment Projections, Introduces Proprietary Technology
Strong worldwide demand drives an unprecedented success of the very popular online learning institute, the Jimmy Bruno Guitar Institute. Through video interchanges, students in 40 countries are converging on one site to learn jazz around the world. This leading edge video technology combined with full accessibility to a veteran jazz master signals a breakthrough in learning ...
Bill Cole Non-Western Wind Instruments Workshop, April 25, 2008
Bill Cole will lead this workshop featuring his specialty: non-western wind instruments. He'll cover the Ghanaian atenteben, Chinese sona, Korean hojok and piri, South Indian nagaswaram, North Indian shenai, Tibetan trumpet and Australian didjeridu. Bill Cole is a musician, composer, educator and writer. Since its inception, Dr. Cole has led The Untempered Ensemble. He has performed ...
The IAJE Collapses
It turns out that rumors of the imminent death of the IAJE were accurate. Following its financially disastrous 2008 conference in Toronto, the International Association of Jazz Education has canceled its 2009 conference and is about to file for bankruptcy. The huge meeting of musicians, educators, producers, record company executives and others from every precinct of ...
IAJE Cancels Seattle Conference, Declares Bankruptcy
The International Association of Jazz Education, a 40-year-old organization whose annual meetings have drawn thousands of artists, teachers, and industry people from around the world, has called off its 2009 Seattle conference and is going into Chapter 7 bankruptcy, according to Paul de Barros' article in the Seattle Times. Rumors and reports of the IAJE's troubles ...
IAJE News: American Jazz Gathering, Planned for Seattle, is Canceled
By Paul de Barros The most important American jazz gathering of the year, scheduled to take place in Seattle in January, has been canceled because its presenter is declaring bankruptcy. In what is being described as a perfect storm" of bad luck, unchecked growth, fundraising and management failures, the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) - ...


