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to.....the official Web
site for the
Michigan Association
for Jazz Education
August
signals the final month of summer, a closer nod towards the Fall
academic term which is on the horizon!
Summer teaching camps, solo and ensemble workshops, and seasonal
breakaway studies are nearing the finish line.
Band directors finalize new charts while guest artist
clinicians get ready
to charge up the student music experience.
The calendar abounds gets a refresh with special event
concerts, each showcasing the hippest musicians that
upper and lower Michigan has to offer.
From Houghton to Holland, Alpena to Adrian, jazz
education
pushes noteworthy attention and deserves unwavering applause.
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Support your local jazz community, help preserve jazz education.
UP NEXT: A SUPER JAZZ WEEK/HOLIDAY JAZZ WEEKEND
Great
Lakes Jazz
Festival Update
The BEST jazz weekend of the year is here! A grand finale of jazz
artists splash on stages in Detroit,
Chicago
and Mackinac Island
on the same weekend. See
the Events
page. Click here for new updates on the Detroit
International Jazz Festival.
Henry Butler with the
MSU Professors of Jazz
Henry Butler, piano and vocals, MSU Professors of Jazz
Wednesday, September 1, 2010; 7:30pm
Pasant Theatre, Wharton Center for Performing Arts
Michigan State University, East Lansing
For more event information, click here
Grand Rapids Jazz
Orchestra Live Webcast - 9/5/10
On the Web: http://www.gro.com/
Go see and hear the GRJO this coming
weekend, including a live video webcast!
Sunday, September 5, 2010; 5:30 PM -- 2 sets --
Founders Brewing Co., 235 Grandville Ave., N.W., Grand Rapids
Ph: (616) 776-1195
Free admission
Mike Clark Drum Clinic @Oakland University - Sept 8
DIJF Update
Aug-25
See Detroit
Int'l Jazz Festival details, including artist headliners,
jazz education bands
and activities, plus web stream events on Jazz
Planet.tv -- visit the DIJF
News page.
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31st DETROIT INTERNATIONAL
JAZZ FESTIVAL
Jazzfest
Audiences Get Classic Era Artists, Diverse Programming, New Web
Strategies
The 31st Detroit International Jazz
Festival sets sail downtown September 3-6,
2010 and the acclaimed largest free jazz bash in North America boasts
another world-class
menu of jazz luminaries playing on stages linking Hart Plaza to Campus
Martius, and along Woodward Avenue. Jazz fans should reap lots of piano
technique from Mulgrew Miller as Artist-in-Residence as he jams
multiple sets throughout the holiday weekend -- with his group Wingspan,
with the superb vocal acapella stylings of Take 6, with the William
Patterson University
Jazz Septet (Wayne, NJ), and a duet with pianist Kenny Barron.
  
(L-R,
Mulgrew
Miller, Branford
Marsalis, Maria Schneider)
Festival Theme: 'Flame
Keepers -
Carrying the Torch for Modern Jazz'
Pushes forward a performance schedule
ripe with top-notch headliners, including a
collection of
all-stars who played with Art Blakey's Jazz
Messengers -- Miller, Bobby Watson,
Branford Marsalis, Terence Blanchard, Donald Harrison, Randy Brecker
and Benny
Green.
Online Buzz: Festival
management innovates with a live web stream to reach a global audience
-- Jazz Planet.tv -- uplinked
from a digital Jazz Planet stage at Campus Martius. A
worldwide online audience connects to the festival website and clicks
back using social media (Skype, Twitter, Facebook) tools. Interactive
feeds with
online hosts and jazz artists aim to give immediate access to
a revolving door of interviews, stage performances, festival updates.
Catch the Motor City vibe via on-the-street reports.
Watch
a sneak peak preview
of Jazz Planet.tv here.
Jazz Education Bands: A
diverse program of educational activities includes a healthy roster of
high school, high school all-star, and
college jazz bands. Several representing
Detroit Public Schools and recognized national ensembles (Berklee,
Julliard, William Patterson University, Western Michigan University,
Michigan State University) will feature special guest artist headliners.
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For full
festival details, including all artist headliners, jazz education bands
and activities, and plans for the Jazz
Planet.tv live web stream,
visit the DIJF
News page.
Wayne State University
Jazz Nets DIJF Limelight
WSU Big band and trio jazz sounds at the 31st
Detroit International Jazz
Festival saturate a four-day weekend, including performances by
Wayne
State University students and faculty emeritus professor-pianist
Dennis Tini.
Dennis Tini Trio
Sunday, September 5, 2010 - 12noon
Pyramid Stage
WSU Big Band with special guest Terence Blanchard
Sunday, September 5, 2010 - 4pm
Russ Miller, conductor
Carhartt Main Amphitheatre Stage
Detroit JazzFest High School
All-Stars
Featuring student high school
adjudication
award winners during JazzWeek@Wayne (Wayne State University -July 2010)
Monday, September 6, 2010 - 12noon
Russ Miller, conductor
Carhartt Main Amphitheatre Stage
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WESTERN MICH UNIVERSITY BLUE NOTES
WMU Jazz Orchestra Fall-Winter Concerts Planned
The WMU Jazz Orchestra, directed
by assistant professor of music Scott Cowan, should be swinging
on all cylinders this Fall and Winter thanks to a number of special
event performances and several choice special guests on stage. WMU jazz
students hit the Waterfront Stage on Saturday, September 4 for a
weekend big band summit at
the Detroit International Jazz Festival with saxman Bobby
Watson. Next, they gear up on campus to present renowned
trumpeter Michael Philip Mossman (Afro-Latin Jazz
Orchestra/Jazz at Lincoln Center) on
October 7, at the Dalton Center Recital Hall (showtime: 8:15pm).
 Grammy-winning vocalist
Kurt Elling (left) raises
the Miller
Auditorium roof on November 11, as the newly formed WMU Jazz
Masters series takes off -- a hopeful WMU jazz annual event
with a name jazz headliner is the target goal. WMU
Jazz Orchestra's standing hit at the annual 'WMU
Salute
to the Swing Bands' concert is inked for November 19 (Dalton
Recital Hall, 8:15 pm).
In Winter term the band heads to the Big Apple performing at the Allen
Room inside famed Jazz at Lincoln Center, with a special guest artist
soon to be
announced. The group shares the spotlight with other invitees
during the 'Western Invitational Jazz Festival' next March
11-12, including special guests The Cleveland All-Stars. They
close out the semester as the closing headliner during the Hastings
Jazz Festival, April 16, 2011, held during 'Jazz Appreciation
Month'.
PROFESSOR CORNER
The Jazz Big
Band: Ingredients to Assure Good
Ensemble Performances
Presenter:
Scott Cowan, Western Michigan University
Review
a 3-part music education primer by WMU jazz master educator-trumpeter
Scott Cowan, a series of articles which originally appeared in the International Trumpet Guild Journal quarterly
magazine. Cowan gives an insightful look at the top 10 essential
elements he says enable a solid foundation for achieving high returns
in big band performance and music awareness benefitting students within
a large ensemble framework. Must reading for jazz
students, educators, and all others
seeking a greater understanding of the dynamics at play, big band
format at work.
Download
PDF
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Upper
and lower Michigan jazz education performances and special events
are
linked through the individual college or university profiled
on our Education page.
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