This trumpeter earned the admiration of Dizzy Gillespie and Art Blakey when he was still a teenager, and balanced virtuosity ...

There comes a moment in every musician’s journey when the mechanical side of practicing stops delivering results. You can ...

All students applying to the Music Department for degrees in Music Performance, Music Education, Music Therapy, Composition, and/or Jazz Studies must demonstrate, by audition, an outstanding level of ...

Wondering when - and how - to use fills in your jazz piano playing? In this lesson, I use 'I Love You, For Sentimental Reasons' to show how fills can breathe life into your comping and solo work.

PITTSFIELD — Cacophony ruled in the library of Pittsfield High School on Tuesday evening. Six drummers, rotating on three drum sets trading fours, while an equal number of keyboardists practiced ...

Dig into 13 tracks from this influential drummer and bandleader, chosen by writers and musicians including several former members of his band, the Jazz Messengers. Credit...Dante Zaballa Supported by ...

The School of Music encourages all prospective students to schedule an audition on the announced audition days in January and February. Each announced audition day includes the opportunity for parents ...

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To lead innovation, you have to embrace experimentation – and mistakes. What can jazz great Miles Davis teach us about leading for innovation? “I love Miles Davis’s quote. He says, if you’re not ...

...Jazz accepts beginners on their own terms, capitalizing on their creative impulse, as opposed to their technical prowess. Note: This article was first published in the Jazz Education Journal in ...