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Three Outstanding Jazz Bands Receive Cash Awards in Savannah Music Festival's 2008 Swing Central Competition

Three Outstanding Jazz Bands Receive Cash Awards in Savannah Music Festival's 2008 Swing Central Competition

Ten talented high school jazz bands from across the nation competed for $12,000 in cash awards in Savannah Music Festival's (SMF) SWING CENTRAL High School Jazz Band Competition & Workshop. The three-day jazz intensive included improvisation sessions, and breakout instrumental and performance clinics with many of the world's finest jazz educators during SMF's closing weekend from ...

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National Endowment for the Arts Announces NEA Jazz Masters Live

National Endowment for the Arts Announces NEA Jazz Masters Live

Washington, DC - Building on the National Endowment for the Arts's (NEA) highly successful NEA Jazz Masters on Tour initiative, the NEA announces NEA Jazz Masters Live, a series of multiple event, extended engagements in selected communities, featuring NEA Jazz Masters. Managed by Arts Midwest, the NEA Jazz Masters Live initiative will bring more than 25 ...

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Learn the Theory of Music By Understanding The Basics!

Learn the Theory of Music By Understanding The Basics!

Have you ever struggled with playing the guitar, the piano, or the flute? Maybe you thought you had no talent? Well there is a vital first step which everyone seems to miss... You need to learn the fundamentals of music theory FIRST. THEN and only THEN can you put it all together and move to the ...

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Global Sound Conference Featuring Nightly Musical Concerts

Global Sound Conference Featuring Nightly Musical Concerts

Global Sound Conference Brings World's Top Sound Researchers, Technologists and Musicians to Los Angeles for Four Day Symposium Second Annual Event Highlights Latest Developments in the Science of Sound; Award Winning Artists Sheila Chandra, Yungchen Lhamo, Agape Choir Perform Evening Concerts LOS ANGELES - The Global Sound Conference announced today its second annual event bringing together ...

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National Guitar Workshop Announces 2008 Season with John Scofield, Kenny Burrell, Paul Gilbert, Lisa Loeb, and More!

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 ...

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National Museum of American History Celebrates Seventh Annual Jazz Appreciation Month

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 ...

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Piano Lessons Online a Low Cost Win-Win for Students and Their Piano Teacher

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 ...

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Conference at Stony Brook: Brilliant Corners: Jazz and Its Cultures, April 3-5, 2008

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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New on JazzPianoOnline.com

New on JazzPianoOnline.com

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. ...

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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 ...


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