The Dangerous Kitchen is re-forming for 2016 with a new lineup. Chris Fink and Joanna Smith will still be holding down the beat, but we're adding local legend Bruce Middle on guitar, and hoping to get saxophonist extraordinaire Jason Hammers for select dates. Stay tuned!
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Are there any rules or conventions for playing music at the jazz jam? Can anybody jump in and play? Is there a sign-up sheet? How good do you have to be?
-- Mike B.
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The Dangerous Kitchen is re-forming for 2016 with a new lineup. Chris Fink and Joanna Smith will still be holding down the beat, but we're adding local legend Bruce Middle on guitar, and hoping to get saxophonist extraordinaire Jason Hammers for select dates. Stay tuned!
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Who can play at the jazz jam?
Are there any rules or conventions for playing music at the jazz jam? Can anybody jump in and play? Is there a sign-up sheet? How good do you have to be?
-- Mike B.
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Hi Mike! I'm glad you asked!
Musicians desiring to play at the jazz jam should know how to play their instrument, know how to read the chord symbols and/or music notation in the Real Book, and be familiar with one or two or three or more of the tunes in the Real Book.
We expect musicians who come on stage to have a tune to call and know how to play the tune.
We don't expect musicians to have played in a serious jazz band before, but we do expect them to have at least muddled through some of the basic repertoire on their axe.
We'd love to have young high school musicians, who play in their school jazz band and want more experience, to join us on stage.
We'd love to have old timers who know their way around their instrument, and can read, and have listened to the music performed on jazz albums and CD's, to join us on stage.
This is not a blues jam. This is not a rock jam. It is jazz jam, where the range of jazz lies between the late 1940's and the early 1970's. Bebop. Post Bop. Latin. Modal. Some fusion.
-- DK