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Interplay Jazz Jam Session – A “Library After Hours” Event
February 20 @ 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm
Founded by local musicians Fred Haas and Sabrina Brown, Interplay Jazz & Arts has been inspiring musicians of all ages from around the world for nearly three decades. In February, their monthly Jam Session will be held at Norman Williams Public Library. This is a special “Library After Hours” event on the Mezzanine with its great acoustics and baby grand piano. Listeners are invited to attend and enjoy!
Starting at 6:30 pm, we encourage instrumentalists to participate in free flow tunes to develop new material (music) and play together. Continuing at 7:30, singers may wish to join in. Bring well-known jazz standards, popular songs or an original tune in your key to play with the instrumentalists, creating arrangements and improvisation in real time! Jam session ends at 9:30 pm.
People often ask, “What is a jam session?” A jam session is a relatively informal musical event at which musicians, typically instrumentalists, play improvised solos and vamp on tunes, songs and chord progressions. To “jam” is to improvise music without extensive preparation or predefined arrangements, except for when the group is playing well- known jazz standards or covers of existing popular songs.
Interplay’s jam sessions are a social gathering and a communal practice session. All instrumentalists and singers, please bring 6-8 copies of the sheet music of the songs you want to play with the group; or you may play along with the music others bring.
You are invited to bring an offering of food or drink to share if you’d like.
