Each day, we have a fantastic variety of situations that get you playing, improving on your saxophone, and get you inspired like never before. We have years of experience balancing the schedule with breaks and learning!
Thursday – July 16th
| 6:30 – 9:30pm | OPENING FACULTY CONCERT – Join the JazzWire Faculty for a night of fun & music. Location TBA!! |
Friday – July 17th
| 9:00 – 10:00am | Sign-in & Set Up – Arrive at the facility, sign in at the front, and set up in your band-room, and meet your bandmates! |
| 10:00 – 10:15am | Welcome Meeting – Jeff will introduce the staff & faculty, our Summit plans this year, and provide all of the information you’ll need to get around! (Jeff Antoniuk) |
| 10:15 – 12:00pm | Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs! |
| 12:00 – 12:15pm | BREAK! – Relax, rest your ears, stretch your legs! |
| 12:15 – 12:30pm | Faculty Concert! – All 6 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning. |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch with Faculty – Bring your own Lunch! |
| 1:30 – 2:30pm | Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. |
| 2:30 – 3:00pm | BREAK! – Relax, rest your ears, stretch your legs! |
| 3:00 – 3:50pm |
Elective Classes – Here are 2025‘s electives to get a sense of the choices: Time and groove are everything in jazz, but how we develop those skills is far from obvious. The metronome helps, but how do we use it in an effective manner? Let’s take a tour through some fun and effective games we can play to develop our sense of times and groove. (All Levels) Enclosures & Better Melodies | Jeff Antoniuk Perhaps the most important melodic device we can talk about in jazz, “enclosures” should be on the to-do list of every jazz student who is getting more advanced and more serious about sounding like their heroes. In this class we’ll discuss this simple device and apply it immediately to songs in our set list (Intermediate/Advanced) How To Solo When You Aren’t A Jazz Soloist | Elaine Burt Using jazz standards and simple etudes, Elaine Burt shares a great approach to improving our jazz improvisation skills, no matter our current ability level. This class will give you the opportunity to see what it feels like to play a well crafted and cohesive solo, and show you a great path forward in your goals to become a more confident soloist. (Novice/Intermediate) |
| 4:00 – 5:30pm | Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes |
Saturday – July 18th
| 10:00 – 12:00pm | Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs! |
| 12:00 – 12:15pm | BREAK! – Relax, rest your ears, stretch your legs! |
| 12:15 – 12:30pm | Faculty Concert! – All 6 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning. |
| 12:30 – 1:30pm | Lunch with Faculty – Bring your own Lunch! |
| 1:30 – 2:30pm | Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. |
| 2:30 – 3:00pm | BREAK! – Relax, rest your ears, stretch your legs! |
| 3:00 – 3:50pm |
Elective Classes – Here are 2025‘s electives to get a sense of the choices: Metronome Games | Chris Bates Time and groove are everything in jazz, but how we develop those skills is far from obvious. The metronome helps, but how do we use it in an effective manner? Let’s take a tour through some fun and effective games we can play to develop our sense of times and groove. (All Levels) Pentatonics in Jazz | Zacc Harris Coming up with great melodic material is the goal of every jazz musician, but there are so many ways to do so. Pentatonic scales are a great starting point, but they can become a deep and nearly endless topic as well. Let’s get started with some classic uses of the pentatonic scale! (All Levels) Interpreting Chord Changes | Adi Yeshaya Understanding chords and chord functions is one of the sometimes-scary and eventually very fun parts of improvising jazz. In this class, we’ll earn to use chords to create tensions and better shape our phrases, all leading to deeper and better solos. (Intermediate/Advanced) |
| 4:00 – 5:30pm | Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes |
Sunday – July 19th
| 10:00 – 11:30am | Combo/Improv Group – Meet your band & faculty leader for the day. This is the core of the camp! Your faculty leader will give you improvisation ideas, play with you, and let you try things out in real time, working from the Summit songs! |
| 11:30 – 12:30pm | Instrument Specific Masterclass – A class specific to your instrument – saxophone, trombone, trumpet, piano, guitar, bass, and drums. |
| 12:30 – 12:45pm | BREAK! – Relax, rest your ears, stretch your legs! |
| 12:45 – 1:00pm | Faculty Concert!– All 6 faculty members will perform two songs while lunch is being set-up, highlighting ideas and songs discussed this morning. |
| 1:00 – 2:00pm | Lunch with Faculty – Bring your own Lunch! |
| 2:00 – 3:00pm | Combo/Improv Group – Revisit the morning group and repertoire, armed with the new material from the afternoon classes |
| 3:00 – 5:00pm | LOAD OUT! – Clean out your rehearsal room of your belongings and instruments, and head over to the Finale Concert location! |
| 5:30 – 7:30pm | Finale Participant Concert – Our Finale Participant Concert, featuring YOU and your JazzWire Summit combo at a location TBA!! |