Jazz Choir

Jazz Choir in rehearsal in the Polish Centre, POSK

Jazz Choir in a recent rehearsal in the Polish Centre, POSK.

Conductor: Jill Jarman
Ability: Mixed
Day & time: Mondays, 20:00 - 21:30
Membership subscription (term): £78 (concessions £55), includes music
Rehearsal CD: £6
Venue: The Polish Centre

This group, an all female choir, explores well-known songs from the 1930s onwards, plus some popular music. There are a variety of approaches to develop group arrangements and fluency in jazz performance.

Recent repertoire includes popular music and jazz standards:

Cole Porter, Gershwin, Jerome Kern, Stephen Sondheim
Bernstein: West Side Story
Loesser: Guys and Dolls
Commissioned work by Graham Redwood, 'How the flute was born'
Arrangements of jazz classics such as 'Too Darn Hot', 'Stormy Weather', and of popular music including Tamla Motown, Lennon & McCartney.

See the Programme page for this term's repertoire.

Note: This choir is extremely popular and due to the staging requirments in our concerts we have to restrict numbers. To be sure of being able to join, you must enrol in good time each term as only the first 85 people who have paid and registered will be able to join the Jazz Choir.