programmes

workshops

Our Repertoire Workshop Weekends are designed to bring new focus and intensity to your jazz learning. You will receive playlists and charts so you can learn the tunes in advance, and attend a series of Theory Preparation Zooms (live or recorded) to help you understand them better. This work in advance means that you will get far greater benefit from your workshop playing days. No more struggling to read through difficult tunes or frantic brain work to make sense of complicated and unfamiliar harmony on the fly - you'll be spending the weekend developing ensemble and improvising skills on tunes you know.
The groups and repertoire are streamed into our playing levels 1-2 and 3-4 - please look here to determine which repertoire set and playing day will be suitable, and don't hesitate to contact us for more detailed advice.

In addition we are also running the following weekends:

  • Big Band
  • Jazz Piano
  • Jazz Guitar
  • Jazz Song (for accompanists - rhythm section and front line - and singers)

    • Please see the WORKSHOPS page for more information.

    ensembles

    The ensemble is the heart of what we do at Jazz School UK - monthly playing sessions in streamed groups learning a set repertoire, with expert guidance from some of the finest players and teachers around.
    The regular meetings and carefully graded repertoire ensure steady and consolidated progress for players of all abilities and experience, from beginning improvisers right through to aspiring professionals. Here are the main features :

  • tunes learned and studied in advance
  • theory preparation Zooms
  • exploring new improvising skills and coming back to them repeatedly to consolidate knowledge
  • establishing musical relationships in a regular group
  • having specific progressive theory exercises to work on
  • performance day
  • written reports and feedback

    • All these things give purpose and meaning to your practice between each meeting. Improvement is unavoidable!

    Please head over to the ENSEMBLES page to see what our groups are currently doing.

    theory shed

    To complement your playing schedule (here and elsewhere) our THEORY SHED programme offers tuition for specific instruments (trumpet, saxophone, guitar, double bass, bass guitar, voice, piano) and in applied theory, both in-person and online.

    Please see the THEORY SHED page for more information.