Weekly Jazz Jams

RIT School of Performing Arts is pleased to announce that there will be weekly jam sessions hosted by Ben Brown. These sessions will happen each Saturday from 4-6pm in the Munson Music Loft in the SHED.

These are open to all and all levels are welcome. There is a drumset, piano, bass, and guitar amps in the space. A healthy jam session requires a solid and committed rhythm section, so we are hoping these grow into something students can count on. Maybe you can't make it this week, but you know it will be around next week. That's the kind of consistency we hope will take hold with these.

Please be respectful of the jams at all times and allow Ben to lead things unless otherwise noted. Check out the links below to review jam session etiquette before you attend.

The biggest things are:
-Be respectful to one another
-Share the stage with others
-Be respectful to the space (leave the room how you left it)
-Approach the jams with at least a few songs in mind. Best options are blues tunes, or jazz standards
-It's ok to come and just watch

Jam Session Etiquette:
Example 1
Example 2

List of standard tunes to learn or know.
1.Take the A Train
2.Autumn Leaves
3.All of Me
4.All the things You Are
5.Alone Together
6.Beautiful Love
7.Blue Bossa
8.Solar
9.Softly as in a Morning Sunrise
10.There is No Greater Love
11.In a Mellow Tone
12. The Days of Wine and Roses
13.Have you met Miss Jones
14.Blues for Alice
15.Wave
16.Black Orpheus
17.On the Sunny Side of the Street
18.So What
19.Rhythm Changes (I got Rhythm, Anthropology, Lester Leaps in, Moose the Mooche)
20.12 Bar Blues (Blue Monk, Bags Groove, Sunnymoon for Two, Nows the Time)