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JMI’s Open Day – Saturday 1st July
JMI is holding its Open Day on Saturday 1st July with information sessions, workshops, jam sessions and a FREE BBQ. It seems like only yesterday that 2017 had just started and yet here we...
BeBlog Part II: Major Pain
by Andrew McNaughton Major Pain The dominant 7 chord function seems to get all the attention in jazz with its flashy flat fives, bodacious upper body structure and all its possibilities...
BeBlog – A Grain of Salt Peanuts
By Andrew McNaughton - lecturer at JMI & Qld Conservatorium When JMI put out the called to arms for a jazz-related blog with an educational aspect, I responded with an enthusiasm borne...
JMI Blog: My Top 5 favourite Bass Players
by Nick Quigley - CEO of JMI There are many jokes that go around about bass players... such as; what do you call it when two upright bassists play in unison? A minor second... But in my...
JMI Blog – What is ‘Jazz Language’?
by Dan Quigley - Head of School at JMI In order to understand what “Jazz Language” is we need to listen to lots of jazz music. If Jazz is different to other styles of music, what makes it...
Brisbane’s new live jazz gig guide
Live jazz in Brisbane seems to be going from strength to strength with a multitude of regular gigs and venues supporting live jazz music throughout the city. To support all the live jazz...
In the Spirit of Swing – Essentially Ellington Down Under
New York-based jazz organisation Jazz at Lincoln Center (JALC) directed by Wynton Marsalis is partnering with JMI again this year to bring out two of New York’s finest jazz musicians and...
JMI Live Concert Series is back in 2017
After running over 100 concerts in 2016, the JMI Live concert series is back in 2017 presenting live jazz in Brisbane featuring the finest of local, interstate and international jazz...
Essentially Ellington Down Under Regional Festival
JMI and US jazz organisation Jazz at Lincoln Center, directed by Wynton Marsalis, are excited to announce that the 2017 Essentially Ellington Down Under Regional Festival will be coming to...
JMI Blog Part IV – Triads for Bassists
by Brendan Clarke, Bass Lecturer at JMI Good things tend to come in three’s and this is no different in the world of music and jazz harmony. In this blog I’d like to talk about the...
JMI Blog Part III: Developing effective practice techniques on the guitar
By Ben Hauptmann, Guitar Lecturer at JMI For the past four years I have been teaching guitar lessons in Brisbane at the Jazz Music Institute. During this time, the most common question...
JMI Blog Part II: Inside the vocal teachers studio
By Hayley Cox (GradDipMus, BMus, MMus), Vocal lecturer at JMI For a vocalist, the instrument is not solely the larynx, nor the efficiency of the respiratory system but the entire body. ...