How to Listen to Jazz: A Guided Listening Adventure
11am PDT / 2pm EDT
Tickets $20
Join JUNO nominated, and award winning jazz composers and educators Amanda Tosoff and Jodi Proznick as they enthusiastically help you to expand your listening experience of jazz. They will be using beloved songs from classic jazz albums to offer you a fun and engaging guided listening experience. This workshop is perfect for people new to jazz and for more experienced listeners who are interested in getting the “play by play” from two seasoned rhythm section players.
Beginning Jazz Piano
11am EST / 2pm EST
Zoom Workshop
Join JUNO nominated, and award winning jazz pianist, composers, and educator Amanda Tosoff as she walks you though the building blocks of beginner jazz piano. By the end of this workshop you’ll be armed with the common jazz chords, melodic embellishment techniques, and rhythms, to be able to play through a jazz standard to be chosen as a group!
Creativity Station: Getting Started with Jazz Composition
11am PDT / 2pm EDT
Tickets $20
Amanda Tosoff and Jodi Proznick will be co-leading this workshop to explore how to get started with jazz composition! The purpose of this workshop is to introduce the basic concepts of jazz composition and how to go about different creativity provocations open up creative compositional play. Through a variety of games and exercises, Amanda and Jodi will cover important concepts for developing composition skills such as using basic blues and AABA forms, contrafacts and ostinatos.