Kick off the new year with the National Jazz Museum In Harlem for this week’s Jazz For Curious Readers. Join JFCR this week as Shelia Anderson, a.k.a. “The Queen of Hang” and author and WOBC jazz radio host, discusses her career in the jazz literary world. She will be presentin her work Monday, January 4th, 2010 at the NJMH Visitors Center in New York at 7:00pm. The event is FREE

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As host-producer of a TV and a radio program on jazz in the New York City area, Shelia Anderson, author of The Quotable Musician: From Bach to Tupac, has met and interviewed musicians, composers, and other music industry professionals from all genres, classical to jazz.

For her latest book, How to Grow as a Musician: What All Musicians Must Know to Succeed (above, right), she put her connections to good use and culled the wisdom and personal experiences of 30 prominent musicians, including Grammy Award-winning performer Al Jarreau; Paula Kimper, a composer of opera, theater, film, and dance music; and Eric Reed, a jazz pianist who has played with the Wynton Marsalis Septet, Joe Henderson, Cassandra Wilson, and a multitude of other masters.

Shelia Anderson weaves together a comprehensive guide that reveals the fundamentals necessary for living a creative and successful life in music, with insights on getting started, developing as an artist, composing, recording, songwriting, preparing for performance, working with a manager, and signing contracts. She shares musicians’ candid and poignant advice on triumph and failure, self-evaluation, ego checks, and personal growth.

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Event Details

Monday, January 4th, 2010
(7:00pm – 8:30pm)
Event is FREE!

Location:
Jazz Museum in Harlem Visitors Center
104 E. 126th Street (Suite 2C)
New York, NY 10035
(212) 348-8300
http://jazzmuseuminharlem.org

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