New Music Educational Website

I'm posting this to tell you of a new (2 months old) website that may interest you, and may be of use to you in the forum sites that you currently use. There a number of music forums out there and each fulfilling its niche, but many have some limitation in the ability to include in posts the file types that would be frequently used by musicians, such as notation (Sibelius and Finale), image, and audio (mp3, wav, midi). Typically, links to items are allowed, but not the ability to upload (I know Young Composers does allow several types), and while many musicians have their own sites, many others do not, and so are left without a complete solution.

The FreeJazzInstitute is a jazz-oriented site that was written to facilitate the recognition and use such files in your posts. The purpose of the site is simply to facilitate musician-to-musician dialog, using the typical forms of media useful in such conversations, and once you login, you can upload & post notation, audio, and image files. There are several transcriptions and analysis pieces posted there currently, and we welcome your participation and questions. Again, your posts there can easily be linked into posts at any other forum that you frequent.

As a sample, take a look at Mingus' "Goodbye Porkpie Hat", transcribed by Ed Byrne:

FreeJazzInstitute.org

or his solo (and background story) on Chet Baker's Cargnegie Hall recording of "There Will Never Be Another You"

FreeJazzInstitute.org

Take a look if you have the interest, and we look forward to seeing you.

Looks cool actually. I was expecting (hoping) for it to be all about Ornette Coleman, Peter Brotzmann, Albert Manglesdorff etc. ... y'know. Free jazz.

What you've got is cool too though.

Looks cool actually. I was expecting (hoping) for it to be all about Ornette Coleman, Peter Brotzmann, Albert Manglesdorff etc. ... y'know. Free jazz.

What you've got is cool too though.

Thanks, it just grew out of trying to make it easier for people to put up whatever media supported the point of their posts. I meant the "free" part as tongue-in-cheek but referring to the lack of trying to sell ads on the site. (There is a support section, but not the point of the site).

Jake Hanlon did put up a free jazz piece:

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I'd love to see more free jazz there too, but am not the man to analyze it just yet.

So, please dig in and make use of it if you can.

Jake Hanlon did put up a free jazz piece:

FreeJazzInstitute.org

HAHAHA! Jake! I know that guy - we went to University together. Great guitarist/writer.

Off I go to sign up....

No kidding - that's great. I don't know if you saw, but he received quite the honor this year by being selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency in Washington:

Jake Hanlon selected for Betty Carter Jazz Ahead program | www.jazz.unt.edu

No kidding - that's great. I don't know if you saw, but he received quite the honor this year by being selected for the Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Residency in Washington:

Yeah, we're still in pretty good touch. The Betty Carter thing was good for him - I did it a few years ago.

Also, I've signed up for your website, once the word spreads, it'll be a pretty good resource!

Cool, and late congratulations to you.

I hope it does prove to be useful and different from what's available already.

Nice music by the way!

I hope it does prove to be useful and different from what's available already.

Nice music by the way!

It looks like a great start...hope it takes off!

And, thank-you for the compliment!