About six or so months ago I signed up for this free Jazz on the Tube e-mail list. Everyday this site sends me videos of Legendary Jazz performances for free. This is a great personal and educational source and I recommend signing up for this.
Here are a couple of videos that have been sent to [...]
The advent of “blogging” has really opened a new world for me personally and I know that I am not the only one because it is a constantly growing market. Blogging is a Multi-million person market and that is just the creators of individual blogs. True that many do not maintain or continue to offer [...]
I have been meaning to get this post up for about two weeks now…. I have recently been teaching a lot of students with a wide range of abilities, mostly with the jazz band I teach, but also in some master classes at local high schools here in Hillsborough.
While teaching these master classes I have [...]
I apologize for the leave of absence I have taken with this site. This past year and a half has been one for the ages. I have graduated from the University of South Florida (once again) with a second Bachelors Degree. A Bachelors of Science in Music Education. I am currently working on getting certified [...]
I’m Back!!!!
I am officially an Alumnus of the University of South Florida!!!!
I graduated with my Bachelors of Music in Jazz Performance. (The only Undergrad receiving this degree this semester)
Right before I graduated I completed my Arrangement of Yardbird Suite for my Jazz Comp/Arranging Class. Talk about working under pressure. Note to self: do not procrastinate [...]
So yeah…. I haven’t posted in a while…. sorry : (
As many of you know I have been working full time at a middle school here in Tampa. This along with my Senior Jazz Recital (a post with recordings and hopefully video will come soon!!!) which was a week and a half ago has severely [...]
Another Clinic I attended was that of Mr. Bunky Green. Professor Green is a world renowned Jazz Musician, saxophonist, and educators. He is currently Director of Jazz Studies at the University of North Florida. His clinic was titled Jazz Improvisation Workshop, and believe me when I saw that Mr. Green was the clinician I was [...]
Hello All,
I hope everyone’s holidays were filled with family, love, and joy.
I attended the Florida Music Educators’ Association Conference this past weekend and I must say I was much happier than the last time I attended the Conference. I felt that the clinics and sessions offered this time around were higher in quality and applied [...]
So I am officially done with my last semester of classes. Next semester I will enter my internship (student teaching for some) and I have never been more anxious in my life. Anxious, excited, nervous, what ever floats your boat. The past couple of days I have enjoyed my time off. Especially considering I just [...]
I am now about to complete my last semester in school (next semester I will be in my internship) and I am becoming more and more frustrated with the way my education has gone thus far. I find myself in courses in which they tell us how to teach but never really show us (As [...]
