Today’s Well Rounded Musician

When Shelton Berg, this month’s featured educator, performed at the recent JEN conference at the University of Missouri in St. [...]

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July 2010

The Zoom H1 Handy Recorder Weighing in at about two ounces, Zoom’s H1 recorder delivers clear 24-bit/96 kHz stereo recordings [...]

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Shelton Berg: How the Spiritual and the Technical Come Together to Make Art

Shelton Berg, dean of the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami, is a classically trained pianist who [...]

Jeff Lorber

A key figure in fusion and contemporary jazz for over 30 years, keyboardist/composer Jeff Lorber draws upon his background in [...]

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July 2010

NAMM Foundation’s 2011 Program Grant The NAMM Foundation’s Phase I of its 2011 Program Grant initiative opened on June 15, [...]

New Notable Music Releases for July 2010

New Notable Music Releases for July 2010. All dates subject to change. June 22 Bob Baldwin Never Can Say Goodbye [...]

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Playing Jazz on the Bassoon

In recent years, several instruments not traditionally associated with jazz have come into the picture, including various strings instruments, brass, [...]

History and Culture #149;in the Classroom’: Why Performing Charts Well is Simply Not Enough

What a joy it is to teach and to play jazz. We perform a music that is full of joy [...]

Charting Songs

Learning jazz repertoire takes time, and it can be very helpful to have a way to organize what you’ve learned [...]

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Crossword Solution – July 2010