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Mar 02, 2010
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During a recent three-night stint with chart-owning sax slinger David Sanborn at the premier jazz club on the west coast - Yoshi's in Oakland, California - jazz organ great Joey DeFrancesco spent his sound check with executive
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Mar 01, 2010
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Zenph’s John Q. Walker has had the idea for his
Re-Performance series of recordings since studying piano as a
child with famed pianist and educator (and one-time Keyboard
columnist) Ruth Slenczynska, in Edwardsville,
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Mar 01, 2010
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Jordi Kramp (left) and Frits Klaver of Love Girls.
Sound: Tech-house in all its forms.
Favorite Gear: Akai’s APC40 controller
[for Ableton Live]. We use it in the studio
and for our live performances. We can’t live
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Mar 01, 2010
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“Lauren Fox is not only a darned good
jazz pianist, but she also sends an incredibly
positive message about contributing, working
hard, and being responsible,” renowned New
Jersey-based band director and music
teacher Matt
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Mar 01, 2010
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Jazz pianist Doug Bickel never planned
on a career in music — much less returning
to his Alma mater, the legendary Frost
School of Music at the University of Miami,
to direct the jazz piano department where
he once studied.
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Mar 01, 2010
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We’ll never know
what music will be
like in the future, or
on other worlds —
but this set offers
some inspired
guesses. Curated by Keyboard columnist
and CreateDigitalMusic.com blogger
Peter Kirn, XLR8R magazine, and
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Mar 01, 2010
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Webpage: myspace.com theemajestics
Day job: I’ve worked at California State University, Bakersfield for
the past 30 years as an automotive technician.
How I got started: I had my first piano lesson at age six. When
I was
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Mar 01, 2010
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To the uninitiated, Phish is hard to explain. To their core fans — even harder. How do you describe Phish to someone who
has never heard the band or worse, has the wrong idea? Misconceptions usually boil down to some
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Mar 01, 2010
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“A piano decays, but an organ sustains,” Paul Shaffer tells me, recounting his earliest exposure to the sound of the mighty
Hammond B-3 organ. “Feeling that for the first time as a small child — the sense that you had the power
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Mar 01, 2010
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Matt Rollings never planned on an A-list career in the Nashville music scene, but he was certainly ready when it came calling.
“I’m not from Nashville, but I spent 20 years there from’86 until 2006,” the now Los Angeles-based
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Feb 25, 2010
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Billy Joel and Elton John’s “Face to Face” tour is perhaps the grandest event in piano-driven rock ever. We recently got to see not one but two full concerts, and to hear both of these legendary piano men in the same night,
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Feb 16, 2010
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In another series of intimate video interviews and lessons re-upped from the now-defunct keyboardmag.tv website, jazz ingenue and Peter Gabriel keyboardist Rachel Z gets candid with editor Stephen Fortner, and shows you in
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Feb 09, 2010
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Editor Stephen Fortner caught up with the Juno Award-winning, synth-slinging electropop songwriter before her show at Bottom of the Hill in San Francisco. She plays keytar. She plays World of Warcraft. She has her own comic book
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Feb 08, 2010
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Our upcoming March cover story is on Phish, the top-selling live concert draw in the world. They've reunited with a new tour to support their brand new studio album, Joy. To whet your appetite for the story, here's keyboardist
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Feb 01, 2010
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Webpage: myspace.com crushed
velvetband
Day job: I’m a personal injury attorney. I’ve
been practicing for 33 years now, and have
my own practice.
How I got started: I learned to play guitar
at age six. Watching the
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