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Individual Lessons

Creative Theory and Improvisation

Jazz Analysis

Ensembles

Individual Lessons

Each week, students will take private one-on-one lessons with a knowledgeable and experienced jazz musician/teacher from the Chicago jazz scene. The lessons will introduce all jazz concepts, including material studied in the jazz group classes. This will include harmony, rhythm, history, ear training, and improvisation. Each student will have the opportunity to try out new concepts learned in class. They will learn common jazz "standards/songs" familiar to all professional jazz musicians.

Time and schedule contact the music department.

Creative Theory and Improvisation

This fourty-five minutes class is intended to allow students of all ages and levels to experience improvisation and creativity through music. It will provide basic concepts to help initiate each student's ability to write and improvise music. The class is intended to be fun and an experience that is mind opening and new. 

Theory/ Solfège  Level III and IV students are eligible to take this class.

Wednesdays

5:00 p.m Level I     7:00 Level II      Age: 13 & up 

Jazz Analysis

This class will be forty-five minutes and an extension to the "Creative Theory & Improvisation" class but will concentrate more on jazz idioms and concepts. It is intended to be for those that have a further interest in jazz music and improvisation. In depth, the class will explore harmonic and melodic ideas of many different jazz styles and eras, including Big Band, Be-Bop, Hard-Bop, Free, Fusion, and Modern. Historical contexts will be presented and explored as well. Students will learn different approaches to improvisation through the jazz language.

Wednesdays

8:00 p.m           Age:13 & up

Ensembles

Students will be divided into ensemble classes, depending on the level of the student. Small combos (4 – 6 players) as well as a Big Band ensemble (8 – 19 players) will be offered depending on participants. Each student will learn what it is like to work in a professional jazz environment. Concerts will be performed frequently, as well as live recording sessions.

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