29 Aug
Happy 100th Birthday to Bird! A Quick-study Guide to the Genius of Charlie Parker »
Happy 100th Birthday to Bird! A Quick-study Guide to the Genius of Charlie “Bird” Parker
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08 Aug
Remote Learning Materials for Band Directors and Music Teachers »
Remote Learning Materials for Band Directors and Music Teachers
Are you a band director or music teacher pivoting to remote instruction during this time of social-distancing? Over many years
08 Aug
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
08 Aug
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.
28 Jul
NYJA Video Goes “Jazz Viral,” Celebrates 300,000+ YouTube Views! »
No jazz musician can resist “The Lick.
15 Apr
“The Lick in All 12 Keys” Celebrates 200,000+ YouTube Views! »
No jazz musician can resist “The Lick.
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.
13 May
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
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)