JZ School Turns One
By Morgan Short, Oct 19th, 2007 | In Art
The JZ School, Shanghai's only facility dedicated specifically to Jazz instruction, is celebrating its one year anniversary this Saturday. With a teaching staff comprised of many locally-based (and a few internationally acclaimed) Jazz musicians -- including Coco Zhao, Steve Sweeting, Lawrence Ku, JQ Whitcomb and Alec Haavik ¨C the school offers a wide range of classes, covering the gamut of Jazz composition and performance. Students of all ages and skill levels can participate in single or group lessons with the added incentive that possible performances might take place in the future for the students that stick with it. SmartShanghai caught up with Ben Denton, the JZ School's Education Director to find more about their first year.
What were the highlights for the JZ School in its first year?
Definitely the student concerts. So far there have been three, notably, Steve Sweeting's Jazz Voice Students performance held at No.D Gallery; it was really inspiring. Also the Junior Jazz Ensemble. It was great to see young musicians with such talent and hear a student's father say he had rarely seen his son so happy. The next Student Concert will be on Saturday, December 15 at JZ Club at 3pm. It will feature four ensembles: Junior Jazz, Senior Jazz, Rock/Blues and a Local Young Musicians Ensemble (of course the ensemble groups will have named themselves more creativity by the time of the performance).
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