COVID-19 is not slowing us down.
Maryland Summer Jazz has gone VIRTUAL!
This is a crazy time around the world, and literally no one knows what things will look like in a week, let alone a month. For that reason, Maryland Summer Jazz is offering a 100% safe and amazing effective online workshop. We had 70 thrilled members at our virtual summer workshop in 2020, and they asked for more! We gave them Maryland Winter Jazz back in January, and now we're back with two incredible sessions of Maryland Summer Jazz 2021, an experience that wouldn’t be possible in the real world.
The ability to connect, to be inspired, and to move ahead like crazy in our playing and understanding is still there, perhaps like never before. Your decision to invest in yourself certainly hasn’t changed. If anything it has become more dear. We are going to help you run with that.
Previous Super Special Guests - A Different Guest Lecturer For 75 Minutes Each Day. More Coming Soon!
Chris Potter
Terell Stafford
Mike Stern
It’s a new world, and we are embracing not only what is possible, but what has previously been impossible. You will be doing a ton of playing online, attending engaging classes, asking questions, and connecting with other adult musicians from around the world, using the Zoom platform. Imagine working for 75 minutes each day with someone like Chris Potter, Mike Stern and Terell Stafford, and doing a private lesson with Jeff Antoniuk or one of our other core faculty members!
Serious Fun & Connection
Maryland Summer Jazz is one of the few jazz workshops in the world focusing on ADULT students. If you are looking for an amazing faculty, loads of fun and inspiration, an innovative curriculum and fantastic organization, you’ve found us. Participants and faculty continue to rate Maryland Summer Jazz among the finest adult camps in the world. Learn and play in small combos with top recording artists, Grammy winners, YouTube personalities and university professors. Exciting electives round out the virtual jazz camp experience. A thousand adults students from around the world who have worked with us can’t be wrong!
Adult Amateurs & Semi-Pros
MSJ helps serious semi-pros and adult amateurs get to the next level in their playing. If you are eager to dig in, to connect with great information, and to work with some of the finest players and teacher on the scene today, you have found your place! We are also a great “refresher course” for full time music teachers. Novice jazz players are also very welcome to get moving with us - you supply the passion, and we’ll get you playing better than you ever thought possible. This works because we know you and your playing from the work we will do together, in advance, at JazzWire.
Show Up Prepared & Leave With A Plan
When you register for MSJ, you’ll become a member of JazzWire, the only online community for adult jazz players (6-month initial commitment). There, EVERY participant at Maryland Summer Jazz will be working together before the July workshop, investigating and practicing the MSJ music together. Imagine showing up on day one, confident, relaxed and ready to go! And then, when MSJ is over, you’ll have a plan for your musical future. JazzWire will be your ongoing jazz workshop throughout the year. See more on JazzWire below.
Maryland Summer Jazz & JazzWire: The Most Forward-Thinking Jazz Camp On Earth
Over the past 17 years, what we hear most at the end of camp is “I wish I knew at the beginning of MSJ what I know now. I’d be so much further ahead!” We’ve taken that sentiment to heart, and have created an amazing
wholistic experience that begins well before you arrive at camp, and continues long after.
JazzWire is an online, global community for adult jazz students, with hundreds of members from over 25 different counties. All musicians attending MSJ are JazzWire members, so your experience with us is unlike that of any other camp or workshop in the world.
Once you join JazzWire, you’ll receive a personalized Practice Plan and Playing Evaluation, which allows you to spend the months leading up to Maryland Summer Jazz 2021 digging deeper into the song selections. You’ll be better prepared, more relaxed and confident, and you’ll have met ALL of your Maryland Summer Jazz campers in advance. You will show up on the first day of MSJ, meeting friends who you’ve known on JazzWire for many weeks and months! JazzWire is a subscription-based educational experience - your time on JazzWire will be the best investment you ever made in yourself and your playing. Find out more on the Workshop Information page.
JazzWire is an online, global community for adult jazz students, with hundreds of members from over 25 different counties. All musicians attending MSJ are JazzWire members, so your experience with us is unlike that of any other camp or workshop in the world.
Once you join JazzWire, you’ll receive a personalized Practice Plan and Playing Evaluation, which allows you to spend the months leading up to Maryland Summer Jazz 2021 digging deeper into the song selections. You’ll be better prepared, more relaxed and confident, and you’ll have met ALL of your Maryland Summer Jazz campers in advance. You will show up on the first day of MSJ, meeting friends who you’ve known on JazzWire for many weeks and months! JazzWire is a subscription-based educational experience - your time on JazzWire will be the best investment you ever made in yourself and your playing. Find out more on the Workshop Information page.