Music Development sessions

Sessions will take place in a professional music studio with Orphy Robinson and Soweto Kinch, allowing participants to produce pieces of music inspired by their learning on the origins of jazz. The sessions will include masterclasses from young musicians who have experience fusing jazz with other genres and visits from guest speakers.

Heritage Sessions

The guest speakers Leon Robinson and Gary Crosby will introduce the students to their living archive and involve them in accessing primary sources including artefacts and ephemera which show the contribution of black performers to British music, including jazz.

Research Sessions

The participants will have sessions with Leon Robinson to introduce them to formal researching. This will involve one session of desk based research using internet search tools and a further session to introduce them to key music and picture archives.

Reminiscence Sessions

Orphy Robinson will share and discuss his with the students on being a young artist in the 1970's and founding the pioneering Jazz Warriors in the 1980's. The session will feature a presentation and interactive Q&A.

Julian Joseph will take the students to the BBC to see his work as a broadcaster. He will share and discuss his experiences as and artist and broadcaster and his international and cross genre work in music. Will include an interactive Q&A

Performances

Students will experience a live concert at the BBC in Maida Vale with an opportunity to have introduction to the work of Julian Joseph and gain insight into working with the BBC.

Students will have the opportunity to perform their own original compositions at The Place as part of the London Jazz Festival 2008.

Recording Sessions

Students will record their own compositions in a professional music studio with guidance from course facilitators Soweto Kinch and Orphy Robinson.