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Hi!  Here you can find the charts that will be played at the Big Band and Vocal Jazz Reading sessions.  Enjoy and come to booth #621 to say Hi!Cl...

https://www.youtube.com/@PatrickBartleyMusic/videos Check out this video where Patrick Bartley discusses his thoughts on how both students and ...

Practice your musical and technical weaknesses, not your strengths. If you sound good when you are practicing you are not really practicing.

BYJO plays the music of Chick Corea   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=prNyDSwpxUM&t=1019s A DownBeat Hall of Famer and NEA Jazz Master, 27...

Hi!  Here you can find the charts that will be played at the Big Band and Vocal Jazz Reading sessions.  Enjoy and come to booth #418 to say Hi!Cli...

BYJO plays the music of Louie Bellson   Louie Bellson was deemed “the world’s greatest musician” by Duke Ellington, “the epitome of musical tal...

         Dr. Steve Shanley and Alan Feirer talk with composer and jazz educator Bob Washut about the state of jazz education.   Bob Washut is E...

Hi!  Here you can find the charts that will be played at the Big Band and Vocal Jazz Reading sessions.  Enjoy and come to booth #411 to say Hi!Cli...

Hi!  Here you can find the charts that will be played at the conference's Reading sessions.   Click on the cover and scroll down to see the score....

A tourist in Central Park stops a man in a tuxedo with a violin case and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” The man responds, “Hard work and hours of practice.” We’ve probably all heard a version of this joke, but it holds a lot of truth.

The evolution of the art of jazz improvisation has undergone a curious metamorphosis, closely mirroring developments in classical music. As the Western art music tradition evolved from pure melody (Gregorian chant) to dodecaphony (12-tone music) and beyond, jazz improvisation has witnessed developments ranging from simple ornamentation (New Orleans tradition) to complex abstraction (“sheets of sound,” etc.).

1) Learn Rules and then Break Them
2) Make a Mess, Then Clean It Up
3) Ask “What If” Question
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