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A Jazz Music based Team Building Experience - New York Jazz Workshop
New York Jazz Workshop offers team-building activities for the companies of the next century. We recently completed our fifth engagement with Nike and have had four extremely successful engagements with Notion. The article below, written by Erin Rabitcheff, describes what happens during one of these events.
What North Indian Music Practice Can Teach Jazz Musicians - New York Jazz Workshop
The improvisational language of jazz and that of Hindustani (North Indian) music share manysimilarities, which we will get to in a minute, but first the main difference: the absence ofharmony in Indian classical music. While modal improvisation is familiar to jazz, the variety anddepth of the modes (‘raag’), having developed over centuries in India (as opposed to decades injazz), is unparalleled.I have been performing, touring, recording and teaching as a jazz guitarist for over 30 […]
How Do We Find Music? - New York Jazz Workshop
How do we find music? Recommendations from friends? Movies? Video games? Algorithm? Music is everywhere. But when 120,000 tracks are being uploaded every day to digital streaming platforms and Spotify gives us access to over 100 million tracks, the chances of us encountering a piece of music become surprisingly low. Yet, we find them. This semester at Bennington College, my class “Musical Taste and Monetization” took another deep dive into music discovery methods. The image […]
New York Jazz Workshop goes to Brazil - New York Jazz Workshop
We had a fantastic time in Brazil. It was a first for the New York Jazz Workshop to hold a workshop there. Our group included the two NYJW co-founders (that’s me, Marco Chelo, and my business partner, Marc Mommaas), our vocal instructor Jocelyn Medina, and three other participants: drummer Charlie Caldarola, vocalist Flavia Nunez, and moth curator Suzanne Rust. We were hosted by ICBIE (Instituto Cultural Brasil Italia Europa), a wonderful organization that provides educational […]
How Arab Funk is Going Global - New York Jazz Workshop
In Milan’s nightclub “The Tunnel”, the sound of Egyptian legend Umm Kulthum’s song Alf LeilaWleila is reverberating around an atmosphere of excitement. The rotating disco ball is lighting upfaces from the crowd who are dancing and screaming to the rhythm of music. It’s the first show ofthe Berlin record label Habibi Funk in Milan. The enthusiasm of the crowd tells a lot about thecondition of contemporary Arab music. In recent times, there has been a […]
Could drill music and jazz coexist? - New York Jazz Workshop
The Covid-19 pandemic was a watershed for many aspects of our society. Even in music, the pandemic has represented a turning point both on the business side and in audience perception. In the rap industry new artists became influential as others lost their place in the market. During that period rappers like Pop Smoke, Fivio Foreign, Sheff G have reached the peak of their careers placing Brooklyn drill on the map. Anyone who has ever […]
The New Soundcore Motion Boom Plus - New York Jazz Workshop
I often receive requests to post links to products and articles and normally turn those down, but last week I received a request from the company Anker, one of the most successful brands owned by Amazon, to review the new Soundcore Motion Boom Plus. Since our community is made up of musicians and music lovers, I thought they would be interested in knowing our thoughts about this product. I received the package via UPS in […]
Jazz and Latin Music - New York Jazz Workshop
Jazz and Latin Music, This article will explore the historical and social relationship between jazz and Latin music, tracing the musical connections and collaborations between artists such as Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Machito, Mongo Santa Maria, Cachao, Pacheco, and Eddie Palmieri.
Why Should You Own Your Own Music As A Musician? - New York Jazz Workshop
As a musician you have practiced your craft through courses, workshops and intensives at New York Jazz Workshop. As you ply your trade, you wonder why should you own your own music? The history of music as intellectual property and copyright is an interesting one. This article will explore briefly the issue of why music is considered intellectual property and why musicians should own the rights to their music. The popular music YouTuber Adam Neely […]
be taken by the fine art of ensemble playing and improvisation by Marc Mommaas
As an instrumentalist or singer who has fallen in love with jazz, America’s only native artform, or Black American music in the contemporary vernacular, you may have been entranced by the nature of playing in an ensemble or improvisation. It can be challenging when you may be practicing your instrument for hours to no end. You are scrolling the internet and have your interest piqued by New York Jazz Workshop, offering this weekly workshop. That […]
Be Blown Away by a classic jazz recording: Art Blakey and The Jazz Messengers "A Night In Tunisia" - New York Jazz Workshop
Be blown away by a classic jazz recording. As a musician who may be learning the form of jazz, or perhaps utilizing its complexity to become a well rounded musician, as a listener, because of it’s rich history, you may find recorded jazz a steep mountain to climb. Through New York Jazz Workshop and the expert faculty made up of the city’s best musicians, and writing on this blog that leans passionately towards a degree […]