Broaden your jazz horizons and CHOOSE from Straight Ahead - Traditional & New Orleans - Brazilian - Modern
Play with a small combo (yes, you will have bandmates!) exploring, practicing, interpreting and mastering well-known, classic jazz tunes. Progress at your desired pace.

EXAMPLES OF:

Straight Ahead
Song For My Father by Horace Silver
Freddie Freeloader by Miles Davis
Moanin' by Art Blakey
Ornithology by Charlie Parker

Traditional & New Orleans
Basin Street Blues by Louis Armstrong
Avalon by Louis Armstrong
All of Me by Django Reinhardt
Moonglow by Benny Goodman

Brazilian
Black Orpheus by Luis Bonfa
The Girl From Ipanema by Antonio Carlos Jobim
One Note Samba by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Once I Loved by Antonio Carlos Jobim

Modern
It's About That Time by Miles Davis
Watermelon Man by Herbie Hancock and the Headhunters
Birdland by Weather Report
Spain by Chick Corea

Get Your Chops Back (GYCB) is a series of learning workshops in a stress-free, non-judgmental environment for adult recreational musicians with prior music-making experience/basic playing skills and who have not made music for a while.

Jazz Combo:
Familiarity with reading music is helpful but not required. Kindly provide your own instrument: bass, clarinet, drum set, guitar, keyboard, saxophone, trombone, trumpet or tuba as well as a music stand.

QUESTIONS? Check out our FAQ

LOCATION
Jazz Combo workshops will be held at the San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA located at 301 S. Bandini St., San Pedro, CA 90731. Free parking. For more information, please visit ymcala.org/sanpedro.

REGISTER ONLINE: Registration period is now closed.

*Free parking lot available at San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA.

 
A project in partnership with San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA Take advantage of Child Watch - supervised play by professional YMCA staff for your child (6 weeks to 5 years-old) while you make music! Included are games, arts & crafts, music, group activities, and social interaction. Free for members of San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA. For non-members, fee is $5 per child per visit. Available on Saturdays from 8am to 1 pm. Advance reservations required, please call 310.832.4211 at least one week prior. San Pedro & Peninsula YMCA is located at 301 S. Bandini Street, San Pedro, CA 90731. Free parking. For more information, please visit ymcala.org/sanpedro.