Friday night at Jazz Camp is always a special night. It is the night were the dancers who’ve been working all week in class show the everyone the fruits of their labor. The Cressman sisters, Julianna & Natalie, grew up at Jazz Camp, literally. Their parents, Jeff & Sandy, (trombonist and vocalist and also sound...
A Message From Jazz Camp’s Artistic Director, Madeline Eastman Jazz Camp Faculty Artist Spotlight This week we’d like to highlight this year’s Vocal Intensive Instructor, the great jazz vocalist Anita Wardell. Bebop pioneer, Mark Murphy, proclaimed Anita, “a gift from Australia”, adding “What hits me, is how expressive her ballad singing is. Then she has...
A Message From Jazz Camp’s Artistic Director, Madeline Eastman Jazz Camp Faculty Artist Spotlight This week we’d like to highlight this year’s Afro-Cuban Dance Instructor, Silfredo La O Vigo. Silfredo La O Vigo is a professional dancer in the Afro-Cuban and Haitian tradition, as well as popular Latin and modern dance. He is a graduate...
Camp is just 2.5 weeks away! For those curious about what camp life looks like, here’s a little video with snippets of what goes on at camp: classes in the woods, practicing under tall redwoods, spontaneous salsa dancing on the deck, percussion classes, dance classes, ensemble classes, vocal classes, big band, blues classes, ping-pong, people...
Inside Out – A Personal Profile My Story by Trelawny Rose Jazz Camp West changed my life. I attended Jazz Camp for the first time when I was 12 in 1988. At the time, I was singing around the house a lot, and I learned songs easily, but I never would have considered myself a singer....
