SFJAZZ High School All-Stars Win Numerous Awards; Upcoming Auditions & Performances
SFJAZZ, the leading nonprofit jazz organization on the West Coast, today announced the SFJAZZ High School All-Stars received three major awards including DownBeat Magazines’ Student Music Awards, the coveted Monterey Next Generation Jazz Festival Award for Best Conglomerate Big Band Performance, and Best Big Band and Best Combo at the 5th Annual Charles Mingus High School ...
Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet Named Tops -- Twice
University of the Pacific’s Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintet this week garnered top honors—twice—from a national jazz magazine. DownBeat magazine in its 36th annual Student Music Awards poll named two separate Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets the best in the category that covers undergraduate college jazz groups. It is the first time two different Brubeck Institute Jazz Quintets ...
Usdan Center, with expanded Jazz Program, Holds 5/19 Final Open House For 2013 Season
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned Long Island summer arts day camp, will hold its final, free Open House for its 46th, 2013 season on Sunday May 19 from 11 AM to 2 PM. Families may obtain information on the Center’s programs and tour the 200-acre woodland campus, at 185 Colonial ...
New York Jazz Workshop Set For Annual Summer Sessions
NEW YORK, NY: More than beach and barbeques, for jazz musicians around the world summer is the time to take their playing to the next level in the world capital of jazz, as the New York Jazz Workshop School of Music (NYJW) will again offer focused four-day workshops, July 25 through August 18, with sessions for ...
Jazz Arts Group Announces 2013 Pbj & Jazz Summer Concert Series
Columbus, OH - The PBJ & Jazz summer series is pleased to return to the Topiary Park downtown for its fifth season of free outdoor concerts. PBJ & Jazz at the Topiary Park: Jazz for Kids and Families is a collaborative effort between the Jazz Arts Group, Friends of the Topiary Park, Friends of the Library, ...
Philadelphia Jazz Project - Remember How It Started?
Greetings folks, As a musician, someone introduced you to the music... to your instrument. Remember that moment? Remember that person? Remember how you felt? Now, suppose that it never happened! That's the kind of environment that increasing numbers of young people face living in within our communities. Schools are not really making that connection between musician ...
Jazz Swing & Blues Great Ernie Fields' Collection Donated to OKPOP Museum
Ernie Fields Jr., the music contractor for American Idol, The Voice, and X Factor; and his sister Carmen Fields, an acclaimed journalist in the Boston area, have donated items from their famous father Ernie Fields Sr., and some of their own work, to the Oklahoma Museum of Popular Culture (OKPOP). The gift consists of artifacts, recordings, ...
Usdan Center, W/expanded Jazz Program, Holds 4/21 Open House
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned summer arts day camp on Long Island whose Jazz Dept. was created more in 1986 by Dr. Billy Taylor, announces an Open House on Sunday April 21 from 11 AM to 2 PM. The Center's Jazz Dept. has now expanded to have Ensembles for Beginning, ...
Jazz At Lincoln Center's Swing University Spring 2013 Course Schedule
Guitarist Vincent Pelote, Pianist Connie Crothers, Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra Trombonist Vincent Gardner, Jazz Historians Phil Schaap, Terry Waldo, and Ben Young to Lead Jazz Education Courses Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) continues the 25th anniversary education season with the Spring Term of Swing University. This term marks the return of old favorites such as ...
Global Circulation Of Jazz - International Conference - Paris
Call for Papers and panelists Below is a an extract from the attached CFP - Call for papers (available in both English and French). A conference poster is also attached. An international conference entitled “Global Circulations of Jazz" will be held on June 27-28, 2013, at the Musée du Quai Branly. Bringing together specialists, anthropologists, historians, ...
Usdan, with expanded Jazz Program, Holds Open House 3/17
Usdan Center for the Creative and Performing Arts, the nationally renowned New York area summer arts camp, will hold an Open House on Sunday March 17 from 11 AM to 2 PM on its 200-acre woodland campus. For more information, visit www.usdan.com, or call (212) 772-6060 or (631) 643-7900, or write to info@usdan.com. Usdan's Jazz Department, ...
New England Conservatory Launches Jazz Lab: One-week Jazz Program For Students Ages 14-18, From June 23-28
Work With NEC’s Premier Jazz Faculty including Ken Schaphorst, Dominique Eade, Joe Morris and Rakalam Bob Moses Any plans for summer vacation? Come explore jazz at New England Conservatory during Jazz Lab, a program for students ages 14 – 18 of all proficiency levels, from all over the country and abroad. Jazz Lab promises musical and ...
Jazz Arts Group Announces 11th Annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award Competition
Columbus, OH – The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) is looking for Ohio's finest young musicians to participate in the eleventh annual Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio's young students of jazz. “This competition is extremely important in these times where music and arts ...
Jazz Guitarist Matt Warnock Joins University Of Chester Staff
A globally recognized jazz guitarist, who has taught and played throughout the US, UK, Canada and Brazil, has joined the University of Chester’s Performing Arts Department. Dr Matt Warnock, who is known to hundreds of thousands of guitarists via his teaching website mattwarnockguitar.com, has been appointed as a Lecturer in Popular Music Studies at the University ...
