Announcing
The new online home
for Michigan
Association for Jazz Education. We head into a new academic
year, a revitalized promotional opportunity for jazz education and
performance in Michigan. A community grass roots network
connects jazz education music programs, educators, musicians, and
patrons of jazz across the
state and the Great Lakes area.
Read an update from MIAJE President Danny Jordan
about our planned direction and agenda. Discover how to support
jazz
education and become an MIAJE Member.
COMING
UP
29th Annual Detroit
International Jazz Festival
"A Love
Supreme: the Philly-Detroit Summit"
Aug-31-
Sept-1, downtown Detroit. Schedule: www.detroitjazzfest.com
MIAJE
& MSBOA to adjudicate student high school and college musicians,
award jazz scholarships at DIJF.
MIAJE Executive Board & General
Membership Meetings
Detroit
International Jazz Festival
Monday,
Sept-1, Jazz Garden Stage, 4-5 PM
All
members and jazz patrons invited to attend.
Concert:
MIAJE Reading Band
Detroit
International Jazz Festival
Sept-1, 5:15-6:00 PM
Jazz Garden Stage
(at Campus Martius) - Woodward Avenue
Grand Hotel Labor Day Jazz Weekend
Mackinac Island,
Michigan
Friday,
Aug-29 thru Monday, Sept-1
Headliners: Dave
Brubeck, Branford Marsalis, Diane Schuur, Alex Graham and the Grand
Hotel Orchestra, Claudia Acuña
and Joey Calderazzo, Bob Baldori, Bob Seeley, John Boutte-Steve Richko
Duo.
Special Holiday Package Information: www.grandhotel.com -or-
1-800-33-GRAND
The 30th Annual Chicago Jazz Festival...presented
by the Mayor's Office of Special Events
August
28, Millennium Park
August
29-31, Grant Park
Headliners: Sonny
Rollins, Ornette Coleman, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., 8 Bold Souls, Gerald
Wilson, Vijay Iyer, T.S. Galloway, Dave Douglas, Dee Dee Bridgewater,
Eddie Palmieri Latin Jazz Band, many other national, regional, local
artists
JazzFest On the Web:
JazzFest
Home Page
Education
Events
Drum
Masterclass: Gerald Cleaver’s Violet Hour
Sept-02,
2008; 2:40 PM
E.V. Moore Building, Rehearsal Hall - 1100 Baits Drive
School of Music, University
of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Born and raised in Detroit, Cleaver considers himself a product of his
hometown’s rich musical tradition, especially the influence of his
father, drummer John Cleaver. He worked with a number of prominent
local artists as a teen and went on to study with Victor Lewis in
addition to earning a B.A. in Music Education from the University of
Michigan. A member of the New York jazz scene since 2002, Cleaver has
worked with Ralph Alessi, Tommy Flanagan, Charles Gayle, Eddie Harris,
Hank Jones, Roscoe Mitchell, Joe Morris, Mario Pavone, Matthew Shipp,
Craig Taborn, Jacky Terrasson, Henry Threadgill, Miroslav Vitous and
Reggie Workman among many others. In addition to Violet Hour, he also
leads the band Uncle June.
Free event, open to the public - no tickets required.
Musicology Lecture: "From Contradanza to
Son: New Perspectives on the Prehistory of Cuban Popular Music"
- Dr. Peter Manuel (CUNY Graduate Center)
Sept-26, 2008; 5:00 PM
Burton Memorial Tower (central campus), Room 506
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
The contradanza, in its diverse forms, was the most popular creole
dance in the Spanish Caribbean in the nineteenth century. Vernacular
forms of Cuban contradanza exhibited many of the most characteristic
features of the popular dance musics that would eventually be called
"son" and, later, "salsa," calling for a reconsideration of
conventional Cuban music history.
Ethnomusicologist
Peter Manuel has published extensively on musics of India, Spain, the
Caribbean, and elsewhere. His six books include Caribbean Currents:
Caribbean Music from Rumba to Reggae, the classic introduction to the
field.
Free event, open to the public - no tickets required.
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