Jazz Set Intensive for Vocalists
Jazz Set Intensive for Vocalists
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The Jazz Set Intensive for Vocalists at the Nashville Jazz Workshop is an immersive, hands-on jazz vocal experience led by some of Nashville’s top jazz educators and singers. This three day program is for all jazz vocalists, beginners to professionals, taught in the small group style that the Nashville Jazz Workshop was founded on.
Singers will learn literature, phrasing, improvisation, vocal health techniques, musicianship, performance techniques, listening skills, rhythmic interpretation, and on Sunday everyone will perform in the Jazz Cave, one of DownBeat Magazine’s top 150 jazz venues in the world.
- August 11-13, 2023 10am-4:30pm every day, and evening events. Final participant concert August 13th at 4:30pm. (See below for detailed schedule)
- Tuition is $750. Includes three days of classes, lunch each day, music charts and instrumental practice audio tracks for 32 jazz standards, Friday night vocal jam, 1 ticket to an NJW performance on Saturday (Nashville Jazz Workshop faculty and special guests performing), and the Sunday afternoon participant concert.
In order to give our singers plenty of attention in classes and on stage, registration is limited to 15 people on a first come basis.
Sample Daily Schedule
Friday
Check-in, Welcome and Introductions
Vocal Health and Warm Ups
Vocal Literature Session
Lunch and Listening
Class rotation: Vocal Phrasing and Lyric content, Get in the Pocket, Vocal Improvisation
7:00 pm: Evening Vocal Jam at the Jazz Cave, NJW. Each student can bring a tune!
Saturday
Jazz Listening: Experiencing Old and New Voices
Playing with Vocal Sounds
Small Group Vocal Literature Work
Lunch and Listening
Class rotation: Performance and Stage Presence, Vocal Improvisation, Stylistic ideas for Songs and Arrangements
Break for dinner – everyone on their own
7:30 pm: Jazz Cave concert
Sunday
Soul Song Work and Meditation for Singers
Putting it all together: final performance work
Individual coaching sessions
Lunch and Listening
Get in the Pocket
Dress rehearsal
Green Room break
4:30 – 6:00 pm: Participant Concert at the Jazz Cave, NJW.