Feel the real Jazz, Jazz Session department.
If you want to study real Jazz, go to Jazz Session department. You can learn logic of music, play jazz, and plays improvise music in this club.I sometimes goes to this club, “Jazz Session department”, to study more about music logic. There are no teacher, but friendly Kanda student, Mr. Nakata will teach you what is the music logic. I went to workshop couple time; I thought I had learned couple things. Also we can play music at this club too. Mostly they are playing standard jazz not only in Japanese songs, but music from all over the world. Many people thinks jazz is western thing, but there are Japanese too. For example, Hitomi Uehara (Pianist), Sadao Watanabe (Saxophone), Chie Ayato (Pianist, Vocalist) and many of people are playing jazz in Japanese music scene. For the people whom going to “Jazz Session department”, they will lend you jazz CD, to feel what kind of jazz you want to play. After you decide what instrument to play, you will practice more and more.
This club was organized in last September. So this club is quite new club in Kanda University. It is the first time to participate Hamakaze-festival this year. The yearly event of this club is to perform once a month (usually it is held at Dance-Square). Sometimes, professional jazz player comes to this performance, which means it is the chance to listen real jazz music in Kanda University!!! There are about 6 people to do activities on Tuesday and Thursday from 5th period to 8 o’clock (Place is unstable, that sometimes in ping-pong gym, or their club room). Meeting is held at Tuesday lunchtime. If you want to join this club, please send E-mail to 2056109(@)kuis.ac.jp (Mr. Nakata).
Many of you think Swing Gang Jazz seminar when you hear about jazz music in Kanda University. The difference of those two clubs is the densities of improvise music play. In this club (Jazz Session department), they will do more improvise music than in Swing Gang Jazz seminar. Although, in some music band of Swing Gang Jazz seminar plays jazz and play improvise music (like in a part of solo playing). Mr. Nakata also says that the aim of this club is to learn more detail about music, to keep playing music after graduate Kanda University. He said the jazz was the good material for learns about music too.
