Please check out our new SAJE YOUTUBE CHANNEL - and SUBSCRIBE!
Welcome to the SAJE home page!
The mission of the South African Association for Jazz Education is:
The mission of the South African Association for Jazz Education is:
- to assure the growth of jazz in South Africa and the development of jazz and jazz education in urban and rural areas,
- to build the jazz arts community by advancing education and research,
- to promote skills development and performance,
- to develop new audiences,
- to document, preserve and archive our South African jazz heritage.
ATTENTION: CALL for VIDEO Proposals
Do you have a smartphone? Are you passionate about jazz? South African Jazz?
Are you passionate about the drums or jazz vocals or jazz photography?
Then please consider sending in a video proposal to SAJE.
And if your proposal is accepted, we’ll PAY YOU!
In this time of social distancing and no gigs or jazz performances, we at SAJE want to continue to promote jazz education and South African Jazz online via videos on our youtube channel and other social media avenues.
Unfortunately due to COVID-19 the 15th SAJE Jazz Conference: Does Jazz Still Matter? will no longer take place in Pretoria from 20-22 August 2020. Instead we will be uploading jazz videos sent in by you. This will allow all of us to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz in South Africa.
Call for Video Proposals:
Although some of these sorts of videos already exist online, our wish is to make these SAJE videos very much related to the South African Jazz experience.
So please think "outside the box".
Here are a few suggested topics for jazz educators, jazz musicians, jazz students and people in the jazz industry:
-A history of/discussion on South African Jazz and/or a specific SA jazz musician
-Jazz Improvisation basics, scales, triads, modes of minor scales, etc
-Instrumental basics - geared towards a specific instrument and age
-South African Jazz styles
-Composing for small jazz groups
-Creating performance opportunities
-Gender disparity in jazz
-Decolonisation of the jazz curricula
-Working as a professional jazz musician during COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa
-My Life in Jazz as a photographer
And so on. Our interest is also in oral histories, and in the forces at work beneath the surface. SAJE welcomes proposals from everyone.
You do not need to be a member of SAJE to participate.
REQUIREMENTS:
Do you have a smartphone? Are you passionate about jazz? South African Jazz?
Are you passionate about the drums or jazz vocals or jazz photography?
Then please consider sending in a video proposal to SAJE.
And if your proposal is accepted, we’ll PAY YOU!
In this time of social distancing and no gigs or jazz performances, we at SAJE want to continue to promote jazz education and South African Jazz online via videos on our youtube channel and other social media avenues.
Unfortunately due to COVID-19 the 15th SAJE Jazz Conference: Does Jazz Still Matter? will no longer take place in Pretoria from 20-22 August 2020. Instead we will be uploading jazz videos sent in by you. This will allow all of us to engage with the latest sounds and ideas in jazz in South Africa.
Call for Video Proposals:
Although some of these sorts of videos already exist online, our wish is to make these SAJE videos very much related to the South African Jazz experience.
So please think "outside the box".
Here are a few suggested topics for jazz educators, jazz musicians, jazz students and people in the jazz industry:
-A history of/discussion on South African Jazz and/or a specific SA jazz musician
-Jazz Improvisation basics, scales, triads, modes of minor scales, etc
-Instrumental basics - geared towards a specific instrument and age
-South African Jazz styles
-Composing for small jazz groups
-Creating performance opportunities
-Gender disparity in jazz
-Decolonisation of the jazz curricula
-Working as a professional jazz musician during COVID-19 lockdown in South Africa
-My Life in Jazz as a photographer
And so on. Our interest is also in oral histories, and in the forces at work beneath the surface. SAJE welcomes proposals from everyone.
You do not need to be a member of SAJE to participate.
REQUIREMENTS:
- Individual presentations should be no more than eight minutes in duration. If you are able to safely present and record a video with a duo or trio then the length should be at least fifteen to sixteen minutes in length.
- Proposals should take the form of a title followed by an abstract of not more than 200 words, and should include details of each presenter including a brief biography.
- The deadline for submissions is Friday 31 July 2020
- Submissions should be addressed to: SAJE Online Videos via email: sajejazz@gmail.com
- The 15th SAJE Jazz Conference: 20-22 August 2020
It will now take place in August 2021 at the University of Pretoria, TUT and UNISA. Watch this space........
SBJOJ22 - Jazz Honours 2019
Special Awards evening at the Sandton Sun Convention Centre, Johannesburg , Saturday 24 August 2019
A special awards evening was held in Johannesburg by the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in conjunction with MNS Attorneys to acknowledge and celebrate those who have contributed to the South African Arts and Culture sector. Among those who received awards that evening were Mike Rossi and Diane Rossi for their contribution to Jazz Education over the past 30 plus years.
Special Awards evening at the Sandton Sun Convention Centre, Johannesburg , Saturday 24 August 2019
A special awards evening was held in Johannesburg by the Standard Bank Joy of Jazz Festival in conjunction with MNS Attorneys to acknowledge and celebrate those who have contributed to the South African Arts and Culture sector. Among those who received awards that evening were Mike Rossi and Diane Rossi for their contribution to Jazz Education over the past 30 plus years.
Mike Rossi (SAJE Board member and past President) Diane Rossi (SAJE) and Peter Tladi (T-musicman) Article in THE STAR newspaper
Sunday 30 April 2017: INTERNATIONAL JAZZ DAY
Interviews on SABC2 TV "Morning Live":
Diane Rossi - SAJE: building the jazz arts community
Andre Petersen and Gwen Ansell - Dissecting the current state of jazz music in South Africa
Interviews on SABC2 TV "Morning Live":
Diane Rossi - SAJE: building the jazz arts community
Andre Petersen and Gwen Ansell - Dissecting the current state of jazz music in South Africa
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- The latest SAJE NEWSLETTER #43 September 2019
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