Renowned artists to mentor students as part of Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance’s partnership with UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music.
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The iChoose production team visited Sofienberg High School for two morning classes on September 19. Attending the first class production were more than 200 students of various religious background, most of whose families had emigrated from countries outside Norway. The warm connection the cast members established with the young audience members provided an atmosphere in…
On August 14, the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles resounded with the timeless melodies of jazz maestro (and ICAP president) Herbie Hancock. The concert, a golden jubilee celebration of Hancock’s revolutionary album, Head Hunters, marked the first reunion of The Headhunters band in 50 years. A few video clips of the show The event began…
The guests were welcomed to Tamning School Auditorium where 7th Annual Peace Festival took place on January 18, 2017. The invited guests included Guam Education Board members, Vice Speaker and Majority Leader Telena Cruz Nelson, Senator Therese M Terlaje, Mayor Louise C. Rivera, Vice Mayor Kenneth C Santos, and former Speaker Judith Won Pat. The…
April 30, the world took a giant step toward giving the profound art form of jazz its proper recognition, as the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization celebrated the first annual International Jazz Day at the UN General Assembly Hall in New York. Some 1,500 dignitaries and guests attended the landmark event, having been…
The latest variation on Herbie Hancock’s fertile theme—“Possibilities”—has appeared in the form of his new memoir published by Viking Books. Aptly titled Herbie Hancock: Possibilities (and co-written with Lisa Dickey) it covers the major dramatic and musical shifts in his life, from his childhood debut as a piano soloist with the Chicago Symphony, through his…
Among all species, our human hands are unique – not only in what they can accomplish,but also in how they communicate. Human hands can paint the Sistine Chapel, plunck a guitar, maneuver surgical instruments, chisel a David, forge steel, and write poetry. They can grasp, scratch, poke, punch, feel, sense, evaluate, hold and mold the…
