Jazz Band Report

We have been lucky to have a full Jazz Band setup this year made from our top instrumentalists in the school. The boys played tunes ranging from the 1940’s Jazz Swing era all the way to the Jazz Fusion genre that came about in the 1970s from the likes of Joe Zawinul and the band Weather Report.

We were overjoyed to see the excitement amongst the boys as we played audio tracks of the pieces we would like to play and clearly there are some parents who have excellent taste in music as these boys were familiar with quite a few of these tunes!

The swing feel came naturally to the boys and they have been very aware of certain articulations and rhythms that are the essence of Jazz music. We feel very privileged to have been given the opportunity to work with these incredibly talented students and grateful that the love and enjoyment of Jazz music shall carry on through them.

Miss J Van Der Merwe

BACK ROW: Yaqub Fakir, Ezekiel Botha, Connor Vermaak, Zac Constant FRONT ROW: Umar Van Der Schyff, Miss J Van Der Merwe, Connor Samuels ABSENT: Caleb Ford, Rayyaan Hoosen, Lucius Jacobs, Christopher Jonas, lan Lawrence, Ethan Leibbrandt, Ronan Mulholland, Nicholas Stanfliet