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Jennifer Batten sure has been busy over the decades: monumental world tours with Michael Jackson, performing and recording with Jeff Beck and releasing a stunning portfolio of her own albums. As one ...

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Here are the common techniques and musical devices from the blues and jazz styles. Think of ways how they can be transferred to performance and composition tasks. In performance In composing 12-bar ...

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Players on a 40-man roster are given three Minor League "options." An option allows that player to be sent to the Minor Leagues ("optioned") without first being subjected to waivers. Players who are ...