Discover Jazz


Projected for 2007
DISCOVER JAZZ
History & Appreciation Course
Individual Class: $25 (in advance or at door)
With the series now underway, tickets to each class are being sold seperately  A concerted effort will be made by JAM to assist in the basic and advanced understanding of the genre called JAZZ. Whether an individual is a jazz veteran…or attending a concert for the first time, the listening experience will be enhanced by these classes.

The classes will  illuminate each instrument’s role in setting the tempo, establishing the  harmony, stating the melody, and observing the form in modern jazz. Different celebrity guests will survey the distinctive styles of artists from jazz history, as well as those appearing in past and coming Jazz Festivals.
This year's classes will include:
  • Listening to Jazz: The Basics  
  • Jazz as Language: A Musical Conversation 
  • The History of Jazz in 60 Minutes!
  • Spirituals, Gospel and Jazz as Sacred Music   
  • Building Your Jazz Recording Collection