Join jazz saxophonist and Assistant Professor of Jazz and Applied Saxophone at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, Josiah Boornazian, for this exciting webinar. Since at least the 1940s, jazz musicians, scholars, journalists, and historians have expressed ambivalent and sometimes contradictory attitudes toward pianist, composer, and educator Mary Lou Williams. Though she undeniably experienced […]
Join Associate Professor of Music Education at Georgia State University, Dr. Martin Norgaard, a researcher who studies neuroscience, mathematics, computer science, occupational therapy, and physics to investigate the cognitive processes underlying improvisation and related therapeutic applications. During the interactive Zoom workshop, you will use a free program designed for language analysis to find patterns in […]
Join Dr. Patrick Brown, Assistant Professor of Music at Middle Georgia State University, for a live webinar that digs into the linguistic components of learning (and teaching) the jazz language. By comparing the process of obtaining a jazz vocabulary with speech acquisition in children and how children learn to speak through imitation, and through […]