The Jazzschool at CJC is the California Jazz Conservatory’s community education program, providing music education and performance opportunities for over 20 years to instrumentalists and vocalists of all ages and at all levels of ability.

JAZZSCHOOL-ONLINE will offer over 100 live, interactive Classes and Workshops for adults and youth in its Fall 2020 Quarter, starting the week of September 21st. These Real-Time-Online Classes and Workshops offer opportunities to learn to play and improve your skills, with the same level of world-class music instruction you’ve received from the Jazzschool for over 20 years. You’ll learn, listen, practice, play, and interact in real-time with your instructor and classmates.

• Instrumental Classes
• Vocal Classes
• Workshops

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The Jazzschool at CJC
The Jazzschool at CJC offers online and on-site Classes every quarter for beginning, intermediate and advanced instrumentalists and vocalists. Levels range from covering basic technique and instrumental skills to focusing on more advanced topics, including jazz style, harmony, improvisation and more. (no audition required; some classes require faculty approval)

• Jazzschool Instrumental Classes provide study of a specific instrument including saxophone, piano/keyboard, guitar, bass and drums/percussion, depending on the quarter.
• Jazzschool Vocal Classes provide an opportunity for singers at all levels to improve style and technique. Performance classes are offered in jazz, Latin, blues, R&B and pop genres. Beginners, singers returning to music, and more advanced vocalists will find opportunities appropriate for their particular interests.

Workshops  (no audition required)
The Jazzschool offers a variety of Workshops throughout the year, available in single sessions or as a series. Whether online or on-site, Jazzschool Workshops are taught by professional artists/educators and focus on specific approaches to technical ability, theoretical concepts, improvisation, and enhancing live performance skills.

Performance Ensembles (audition required)
Please Note: Both Adult and Youth Ensembles have been postponed and will be reconvened when conditions allow us to resume on-site programs.

The Jazzschool offers a wide range
 of Performance Ensembles for beginning, intermediate and advanced instrumentalists and vocalists. Ensembles focus on a wide range of styles including, but not limited to, jazz, blues, funk, Afro- Caribbean and South American music.

Online Young Musicians Program
The Jazzschool Young Musicians Program offers online Classes for beginning, intermediate and advanced middle and high school instrumentalists and vocalists, focusing on improvisation, style and repertoire. Note: Young Musicians Program ensembles have been postponed and will be reconvened when conditions allow us to resume on-site programs.

Camps and Intensives
Jazzschool Camps and Intensives are offered in the Spring and Summer in one and two week sessions for adult and youth instrumentalists and vocalists of all levels of ability.

Please Note: Piano Intensive, Sax Intensive and Vocal Intensive have been postponed and will be reconvened when conditions allow us to resume on-site programs. Please check back for updates on 2020 programs.

Registration

Please browse our Classes for instrumentalists, vocalists and young musicians.

You may register online, by phone (510.845.5373), or fax (510.841.5373).

You may also download and print a paper application and mail it to the Jazzschool with payment enclosed.

Enrollment is on a first-come, first-served basis and cannot be guaranteed without full payment. Students applying for courses that are full may be placed on a waiting list. The Jazzschool accepts checks (made payable to The Jazzschool), cash, VISA or MASTERCARD, American Express and Discover. Payment plans are available.