About 4 months ago, we brought you a post about how to get the most out of jazz improvisation (”The Key To Jazz Improvisation: Be a Storyteller”). While that article addresses some specific points for individual learning and practice, the current one will help to focus more on the instruction in the classroom. [...]
The Cintas Foundation and the Frost Art Museum at Florida International University today announced the start of the annual competition for the 2009 Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition administered by the foundation and the Cintas Fellowship Program at The Frost.
Established in 2006, this fellowship is generously endowed by Brandon Fradd of NewYork City. Managing [...]
From the best-selling author of Jazz Saxophone Etudes comes the only jazz saxophone duet book you’ll ever need! Written for alto and tenor saxophones, this collection of 10 duets are fun to play, valuable to study and perfect for teachers of saxophone to use with able students. If you’re working on tone, phrasing or articulation, [...]
So, you bought the $800 guitar that you really needed, and you have the chord book out - you might even be thumbing through Guitar Magazine, looking for the newest songs and finger techniques. But you still feel you haven’t made it to that next level. Why?
This post describes some of the best [...]
Following the dissolution of the International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) in April of this year, more than 35 leaders from the jazz education community and its affiliated industries gathered in suburban Chicago to discuss the need for an organization geared to serve professionals and students in the jazz education field.
The meetings were facilitated [...]
If you follow jazz bassist, you have probably heard of Terrence Richburg. Halied as the “bassist’s bassist,” the musical prodigy has been in the scene for quite a while, having played alongside artists like Aretha Franklin, The Winans, Jennifer Holliday, Richard Smallwood & Vision (to name a few).
A well-known musician, producer, arranger and songwriter, [...]
Jazz Education Inc, also known as JEI, is a non-profit organization based in Houston, TX, with aims to provide programs centered on music education and enrichment for youth.
Bubbha Thomas, jazz artist and founder of the organization, feels that many youth are simply not given enough opportunity to make music a part of their lives, [...]
Marsalis Berklee Jams is a collaboration between Marsalis Music, Branford Marsalis’ Cambridge-based record label, and Berklee, representing an attempt to link successful professional bands with college-level students.
October 29th & 30th, 2008 bring two two master classes as well as a couple of performances to Berklee, and the featured artist of this Jam will [...]
Jazz musician and trumpet great, Clifford Brown, was indeed a tremendous addition to the jazz scene in the late 1940s and and 50s. He played a large role in the bebop era and was an great influence to all the other musicians around him. Due to his abbreviated time with us on the [...]
Taking off in the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a “new” type of music evolving. Combining elements of funk, jazz fusion, and more popular styles such R & B and pop, this hybrid of sorts seem to reach most of its listeners through the electronic and club scene. Loved by [...]
