APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED ONE WEEK! Online application due Friday, February 5, 2021 at 11:59 PM. Contact us for more information. You can do it!
Calling all Alamo Colleges jazz students! Now is the time to apply for A-JAM 2021! Application deadline is January 29, 11:59 PM for all materials. The process is online and remote this year due to the pandemic. So you'll need to record a prescreen video and then participate in a remote audition interview on Tuesday, February 9 at 5 PM via Zoom. Contact Dr. Cartwright if you have any questions. Good luck and keep swinging!
Calling all Alamo College jazz students! Check out this unique opportunity to up your game exponentially and have fun while you're at it. You'll have to work really hard, but the rewards are great. Join us. Complete your application during the winter break and hit the ground running in February. Click the link, download the sheet music and play-alongs, and get cracking. Contact me or your applied instructor if you have any questions. May the fourth be with you!
OPEN TO ALL ALAMO COLLEGES STUDENTS
APPLY ONLINE VIA CANVAS:
Application materials available to all Alamo Colleges students and faculty
via the A-JAM collaborative CANVAS COURSE LINK
Questions? Contact Katchie Cartwright, PhD, Program Director
kcartwright2@alamo.edu / Facebook / A-JAM blog
MATERIALS TO PREPARE:
Download: two required play-along tracks and sheet-music
Scales/arpeggios: major, harmonic minor, dorian, and mixolydian, all keys
Sight-reading: chordal (lead-sheet), rhythmic, and melodic
COREQUISITES:
Current registration in the following courses: improvisation (MUSI 1131), applied lessons, and jazz ensemble (if available)
IT COULD BE YOU NEXT YEAR!
One lucky A-JAM student may be invited to the annual meeting of the International Association of Schools of Jazz (IASJ) to perform—virtually or in person--with top students and professionals from all over the world.
Featured in the photograph above is Fernando Muñoz, A-JAM allstar who represented Alamo Colleges at IASJ, Zagreb, Croatia. Read about his journey on the A-JAM blog.