Singers of all styles, including jazz, can sign up now for the Columbus Jazz Academy’s Vocal Class with jazz vocalists Mary McClendon and Rachel Sepulveda. This class is about singing – from learning how to warm your voice up to having the self-confidence to sing for an audience with aContinue Reading
Want to learn jazz piano? The Columbus Jazz Arts Group provides a number of educational courses and resources for prospective students to learn from some of the best musicians in the city. We are lucky to have a resource like this in our city. Prospective piano and keyboard players canContinue Reading
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers a stellar line-up of music making opportunities at the Jazz Academy to engage all ages and interests including clinics and workshops with guitar virtuoso Sheryl Bailey, international trombone star Sarah Morrow, Blues Music Award-winning guitarist Duke Robillard, gospel singer Nia Allen, andContinue Reading
For the seventh year in a row, Christian Howes’s Creative Strings Festival promises to inundate Columbus with the sound of strings! Violins, cellos, violas, and basses will be heard singing and wailing through bluegrass, jazz, Celtic, Latin, blues, avante garde and more at markets, theatres, restaurants, cafes, and clubs throughoutContinue Reading
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) will celebrate the Jazz Academy’s first birthday with an open house on Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 – 8 PM at its home in the King-Lincoln District. The festivities will include music, tours, demonstrations, games, cake, ice cream and a very special awardContinue Reading
Please the Jazz Academy on Thursday, June 10 from 5:30 – 8:00 PM as they celebrate their first year of serving as a community instructional space where everyone can listen, learn and play. There will be cake, ice cream, and – of course – music for all. Plus, you won’tContinue Reading
Join Columbus Jazz Orchestra Artistic Director Byron Stripling and Cleveland Jazz Orchestra for a big band clinic on Saturday, June 5, 2010 at 4:30pm. The Jazz Academy is located at 769 E. Long Street on the 4th Floor of the historic Lincoln Theatre. Individuals of ALL AGES are welcome
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) offers a stellar line-up of music making opportunities to engage all ages and interests with summer camps at the Jazz Academy community instructional space in the newly restored Lincoln Theatre complex. Arrange and produce your own song using the Jazz Academy keyboard andContinue Reading
The Jazz Arts Group of Columbus (JAG) has announced its winner of the 2010 Hank Marr High School Jazz Award. This award demonstrates excellence in musicianship and performance amongst central Ohio’s young students of jazz. On Saturday, April 24, 2010, three talented high school students competed at the Jazz AcademyContinue Reading