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I am currently president of Missouri Association for Jazz Education. I am proud to be part of an organization with a group of people that care about not only jazz education, but also music education in general. Since I moved to Missouri the summer of 2010, I am very happy to see MOAJE’s growth. A big part of that is the MOAJE past presidents: Jeff Melsha, Bob Long, and presidents before Bob. Jeff Melsha did a great job bringing in several corporate sponsors to MMEA, including Jazz St Louis. If you are not familiar with Jazz St Louis, it is a non-for-profit organization that is tied through the well-known Jazz at the Bistro club in St Louis. Students involved with the St Louis Jazz organization get to rehearse and play in jazz combos all year for free at the Jazz at the Bistro club and get to work frequently with well-known national jazz artists. For more information about Jazz St Louis and their Jazz U program, visit
www.jazzstl.org. Jazz St Louis has been a corporate sponsor to MOAJE these past 2 years and they helped pay to bring in Terell Stafford and Wycliffe Gordon to direct the Missouri All-State Jazz Ensemble. We are very happy to have Jazz St Louis help us again bring in a well-known jazz educator/ musician to direct the 2015 Missouri All-State Jazz Ensemble.
One of the areas in which MOAJE has grown is our MOAJE jazz jam sessions. I started hosting these jam sessions this past year in St Louis. They have been at Kirkwood Station Brewing Company and have been a big success. What we do is bring in a professional rhythm section (Carolbeth True on piano, Randy Bahr on guitar, Eric Warren on bass, and Kevin Gianino on drums) and those musicians play with middle school, high school, and college students. Students also get to play in the rhythm section. Adults from the community and professional musicians also sit in to play with the students, which is a great experience for the young musicians. The MOAJE jazz jam sessions are always in a family-friendly environment. It is free admission for both the musicians and anyone just wanting to listen. It’s a great opportunity for parents, students, and community members to hear live jazz while they have dinner.
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We have future dates booked for MOAJE jazz jam sessions at Kirkwood Station Brewing Company on Sunday March 30, Sunday August 31, and Sunday November 30. Also on Sunday June 29th MOAJE is hosting a special jazz trombone night at Kirkwood Station Brewing Company. That night we will have a professional rhythm section again. The night will start with a jam session for trombonists at any level. We will also have several professional jazz trombonists from the area (Brett Stamps, Cody Henry, Wayne Coniglio, and Jim Owens) play in the jam session with the young students. Also the St Louis MetroBones will perform that night. The band is 14 trombones (all high school and college students from the St Louis area) and 4 rhythm section players. They will give a performance and also have several guest trombone soloists play with the band. The night
will end with several reading songs that any trombonist can come and play on. Those songs will be arrangements from Bonerama and Maniacal 4 and will also include the rhythm section playing with all the trombones. We are currently finalizing dates for MOAJE jazz jam sessions in other cities in Missouri. We are talking with Mojo’s and Broadway Brewery in Columbia and also Springfield Brewing Company and Nathan P. Murphy’s in Springfield. We also have interest in Joplin and Kansas City also for jam sessions. For future dates for our MOAJE jam sessions, please visit our MOAJE website at www.
moaje.org. We will update
those dates shortly. If any of you would like to contact me about jam sessions in your city, please contact me at
ddickey@stchas.edu.
The Missouri Association for Jazz Education is working to bring back student scholarships for many of the jazz camps. The state of Missouri has many excellent jazz camps during the summer available for middle school, high school, college, and adults. MOAJE’s website will update shortly all the jazz camps available in Missouri, including scholarship opportunities.
If any of you have any suggestions to improve MOAJE or jazz education in the state of Missouri, please feel free to contact me or any of our MOAJE board members listed on our website at
www.moaje.org
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