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    28 Jul

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    NYJA Video Goes “Jazz Viral,” Celebrates 300,000+ YouTube Views! »

    No jazz musician can resist “The Lick.

    16 Apr

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    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

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    “The Lick in All 12 Keys” Celebrates 200,000+ YouTube Views! »

    No jazz musician can resist “The Lick.

    31 Jan

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    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

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    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.

    13 May

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    Jazz Lesson: Learning Jazz Improv from Kenny Dorham, Part II »

    Here’s a quick study for your practice session: Trumpeter Kenny Dorham plays a solo in the middle of Joe Henderson’s iconic “Recorda Me” (The solo starts at 2:20 abo

    13 May

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    Jazz Lesson: Learning Jazz Improv from Kenny Dorham, Part I »

    Here’s a quick study for your practice session: Trumpeter Kenny Dorham plays a solo line in the middle of the jazz classic “Mack The Knife” (The line starts at 0:57 above)

    20 Oct

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    Jazz Lesson: Tom Dempsey teaches Jazz Guitar Basics [VIDEO] »

    New York Jazz Academy Faculty member Tom Dempsey recently recorded a short video series for Jazz At Lincoln Center.

    17 Oct

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    Jazz Lesson: Bebop Line Manipulation on Joe Henderson’s “Recorda Me” »

    Here’s a quick study for your practice session: Joe Henderson plays a “blink-and-you’ll-miss-it” line in the middle of his iconic “Recorda Me” solo (The

    14 May

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    Jazz Lesson: How to Learn the Form of “You Can’t Take That Away From Me” »

    Get to the point where you can understand the form of a jazz standard, both by examining a lyric sheet and a lead sheet.

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