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TMI 4: Kalani — Community Drumming & Music Therapy
This is a big one! Kalani’s instructional videos on community drumming have been a big influence on me. He is a great educator, music therapist, and performer who has worked with Rod Stewart, Kenny...
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TMI 6: Stephen Nachmanovitch — Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art
Stephen Nachmanovitch performs and teaches internationally as an improvisational violinist, and at the intersections of music, dance, theater, and multimedia arts. He is the author of Free Play:...
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TMI 8: Dawn Avery & Larry Mitchell — Cello & Guitar
Rarely are performers as at home in Lincoln Center as they are in a longhouse. Composer, cellist, vocalist, educator and GRAMMY nominated performer, Dawn Avery, has worked with musical luminaries...
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This is a cool animated video that introduces some of the basic concepts behind David Reed’s book, Improvise for Real. I highly recommend this book for anyone interested in improvising. The basic idea...
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TMI 24: Jeffrey Agrell — Improvisation for Everyone
Jeffrey Agrell is an Associate Professor of Horn at the University of Iowa. He has won awards as both a writer and composer, with over one hundred published articles and many compositions published,...
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Patronize Me
The arts have an enormous potential to make us better human beings. Through them, we experience greater empathy, joy, wonder, catharsis, regret, healing, and the list goes on. Unfortunately, we are so...
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TMI 29: Jim Neglia — Percussionist & Orchestra Personnel Manager
Jim Neglia is a percussionist, music coordinator, contractor, personnel manager of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra and author of Onward and Upward. My conversation with Jim will reveal a man with a...
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TMI 33: Deane Ogden — Musical Nomad (part 2)
Deane Ogden is a musical nomad. A sonic chameleon. An itinerant creative Bohemian of sorts. As an American recording artist, multi-instrumentalist and producer, his music has been described as “a...
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TMI 35: The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet
The Breaking Winds Bassoon Quartet is a one-of-a-kind chamber ensemble that plays original music for bassoon quartet with comedic performance elements. Dancing, pop culture references, skits, and...
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