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If you are a saxophonist or a jazz musician looking to expand or improve your playing, I cannot express the importance of jazz lessons enough. Even though there are an infinite number of materials available – including pre-recorded digital lessons – and they can do a lot to help you improve if you’re trying to …
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On March 3, 2015, saxophonist ShaShaty will be celebrating the release of his sixth album, Brighter Day on the newly formed A.H.I. Records. The album features the talents of Steve Oliver, Will Donato, Spyro Gyra, and Taiwanese vocalist Usay Chu. With eleven tracks ranging from the romantic ballads “My Heart Yours” and “I’m Always Near” …
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Every few months we try to feature a few songs or albums that we’re listening to here at Teen Jazz. We’ll showcase the playlists of our host, Shannon Kennedy, as well as a few of our Teen Jazz Artists, Contributors and Influences. We hope you enjoy getting an inside look, and even more importantly, we …
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Read Part 1: An Introduction to Breton music and the history of the region Read Part 2: Read Part 2: the instrumentation of Breton music and how Jean-Michel Veillon became involved in the genre Read Part 3: includes of discussion with Larry Rone about Breton music in the US — SK: Well those are all …
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Read Part 1: An Introduction to Breton music and the history of the region Read Part 2: Read Part 2: the instrumentation of Breton music and how Jean-Michel Veillon became involved in the genre If you come to Brittany now, one couple you will see play, one couple of instruments you’ll hear almost in every …
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This year was my tenth year attending NAMM, the National Association of Music Merchants convention held in Anaheim, California from January 22-25, 2015. The NAMM show is a fun music event held annually and is a great time to catch-up with friends from around the world, see exciting new products from music manufacturers, and mingle …
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Hey all, NAMM is over and things have been settling down here. It was great getting to catch up with old friends and meeting new ones! We can’t wait to do it again next year! In honor of the recent music conference, we thought we’d share a few networking tips to help you get the …
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When we first make the transition from playing music in school to playing music professionally, many young performers are quickly discouraged. We go from competing against and performing with players relatively close to us in age with very subtle differences in ability (with a few exceptions), to doing the same against and with players who …
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I try not to use this space [Teen Jazz] for shameless self-promotion. I have my own website to do that, but every once in a while I have a project that I am a part of that I am just to excited about not to share. Over the past few months, guitarist U-Nam and I …
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Title: How to Get More Ideas While Improvising Jazz Author: Mark Mercury Genre: Music Performance Pages: 97 pages THE CONTENT How to Get More Ideas while Improvising Jazz is a quick and easy read that offers 50 techniques for boosting creativity and inspiration while improvising. Written by Mark Mercury, the book is geared to the …
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