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National Guitar Workshop Announces 2008 Season with John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, and More!
The National Guitar Workshop is proud to announce our 25th season of presenting week long workshops across the country and featuring guest artists such as John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Vernon Reid, Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, Sonny Landreth, Michael Angelo Batio and many more. Litchfield, CT-- The National Guitar Workshop is excited to announce the curriculum and ...
National Museum of American History Celebrates Seventh Annual Jazz Appreciation Month
At a special ceremony today, the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History launched the seventh annual celebration of Jazz Appreciation Month with a program hosted at The George Washington University. Jazz artist Ramsey Lewis engaged fellow musician Larry Coryell in a conversation about jazz as America's national treasure and global export. Lewis also donated artifacts from ...
Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher
It's tough trying to maintain an active lifestyle and wanting to learn piano at the same time. Not only that, but piano lessons with good teachers are expensive and it's often really difficult to schedule lessons. So to fit it all in to a filled-to-the-gills schedule more and more students have turned to taking their piano ...
Conference at Stony Brook: Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures, April 3-5, 2008
The Humanities Institute at Stony Brook will be presenting a major jazz conference and festival from April 3-5, 2008. Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures will explore the music's connections to the other arts and will feature many of the world's most prominent jazz scholars. Twenty-five speakers will be addressing the many ways in which the ...
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Related ii Chords In combination with dominant chords, related ii chords can dramatically increase the reharmonization potential of any progression. Watch this lesson and see how a garden variety ii-V-I-V/ii progression is reharmonized into five unique and highly chromatic progressions- and this is just scratching the surface of the possibilities that this technique affords. ...
University of Michigan Jazz Showcase Concert
The University of Michigan Department of Jazz and Contemporary Improvisation will present its annual Jazz Showcase Concert on Sunday March 30th at 8pm in Stamps Auditorium at the Walgreen Center on North Campus. Featured performers on this concert will include Profs. Geri Allen and Dennis Wilson as well as the Creative Arts Orchestra, UM Jazz Trombone ...
The Jazzschool & Yoshi's Announce Joint Education Program
The Jazzschool, Berkeley's innovative music school dedicated to the study and performance of jazz, has become the official education arm of Yoshi's, the Bay Area's foremost jazz presenting organization. The announcement of the new partnership was made today by Jazzschool Founder and Executive Director Susan Muscarella and Yoshi's Artistic Director Peter Williams. This joint venture was ...
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Substitute Dominants How many times have you played the same chord changes, chorus after chorus of Autumn Leaves or Blue Bossa or All the Things You Are or any tune? Wouldn't it be nice to throw in a few new chords here and there so that each chorus would be a little different? Jazz musicians do ...
Hot Jazz Makes Smart Students
SEQUIM -- It's 6:45 a.m. and these teenagers are hot. You might say they're one of the smartest bands in the state. With a collective grade-point average of 3.535, the Sequim High School Jazz Ensemble was recently named state academic champion among 2A school bands. The Washington Interscholastic Activities Association, or WIAA, presents academic achievement awards ...
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Improvising over Rhythm Changes Part 1 & Part 2 Except for the Blues, Rhythm Changes- the name given to the chord changes to the tune I Got Rhythm- is the most common chord progression in jazz. Written in 1930 by George Gershwin, the tune was immediately co-opted by musicians as a vehicle for new ...
