16 Apr
THE LICK Infographic (aka “All I Really Need to Know About JAZZ I Learned From THE LICK”) »
Turns out a video we made a while back, “The Lick In All 12 Keys,” has a following.
15 Apr
“The Lick in All 12 Keys” Celebrates 200,000+ YouTube Views! »
No jazz musician can resist “The Lick.
28 Mar
NYJA Late Spring Semester 2018 At-A-Glance (registration is now open!) »
NYJA Late Spring Semester 2018 At-A-Glance
New York Jazz Academy® Late Spring Semester 2018 registration is now open! Feel free to download a PDF of our semester at-a-glance, or read for mo
10 Feb
NYJA Summer Jazz Intensives Featured in DownBeat Magazine »
March 2018 DownBeat Magazine Issue Spotlights NYJA Summer Jazz Intensives
Now entering our 10th year, New York Jazz Academy® has received a new spotlight in DownBeat Magazine, the country&#
07 Feb
New Film Documentary on NYJA Released »
New Film Documentary on NYJA Released
The filmmaker Marcela Rivera stopped by New York Jazz Academy in Manhattan in Summer 2017 and filmed students and teachers for a single day.
31 Jan
NYJA Early Spring Semester 2018 At-A-Glance (registration is now open!) »
NYJA Early Spring Semester 2018 At-A-Glance
New York Jazz Academy® Early Spring Semester 2018 registration is now open! Feel free to download a PDF of our semester at-a-glance, or read for
31 Jan
NYJA Vocal Jazz Intensives Announced for April 2018 »
Do you love to sing? Are you craving an environment that is made just for you, your vocal interests and goals? NYJA Vocal Jazz Intensives offer a completely immersive experience for vocali
31 Jan
Jazz Lesson: Bebop Leading Tones in Sequence »
Much of bebop jazz vocabulary stems from the fusion of major and minor tonalities with a healthy dose of chromaticism.
30 Jan
Milestone reached! NYJA Video lesson reaches 100,000+ views on YouTube »
A nice milestone reached! A New York Jazz Academy® video lesson reached 100,000+ views on YouTube this week. Thank you to all who have taken time to learn from the lesson on Bebop scales.
28 Nov
NYJA Donates to Musicians in Haiti »
NYJA Donates to Musicians in Haiti
This past Saturday, New York Jazz Academy® director Javier Arau joined with Experience Ayiti, a Bronx-based non-profit, and donated a vanload of musical e