Jam Sessions Research Articles

Pendidikan Musik Informal pada Komunitas Jazz di Lampung

Purpose: Jazz has grown in popularity recently, and its presence in Lampung has been recognized. This condition is reflected in the emergence of jazz music groups and communities such as the 'Rakata Jazz Community' (RJC) and the 'Kalima Jazz Community' (KJC) (KJC). However, the Lampung jazz community has a pedagogical dimension in addition to its musical and social activities. Several researchers have realized that jazz provides an informal music learning format. This research aims to describe the pedagogical dimensions of jazz in the community and the music landscape of the Lampung jazz community, particularly at RJC and KJC. Method: From 2017 to 2021, I have been actively participating in this ethnographic research as a member of both communities. Digital archives and websites were used to supplement the research data. Result and Discussion: The study's findings indicate that the learning environment and experience are the potentials for the Lampung jazz community to develop its members' knowledge. This potential is demonstrated through performance activities and jam sessions at its regular meetings.

Scat Singing Learning Method in Jazz Vocals for Vocal Students of Music Presentation Institut Seni Indonesia Yogyakarta

Scat singing is the designation of vocal improvisation techniques in jazz music. This form of vocal improvisation was first popularized by Louis Armstrong in 1962. Scat singing is often learned by imitating improvised musical instruments into vocals, such as saxophones, trumpets, guitars, or pianos. Popjazz vocal students of the ISI Yogyakarta Music Presentation study program began to be introduced and learned scat singing from semester 2 to semester 6. Only a few students successfully apply this vocal improvisation technique when singing in performances and jam sessions. The author as a lecturer of popjazz vocal practice in the Music Presentation Study Program has observed the difficulties experienced by the majority of students. Several stages of learning have been applied in the learning process, for example by understanding scales and chord patterns, developing the main melody in songs, enriching vocal dialects, to multiplying musical references. This stage of learning was not significantly successful in helping students master scat singing. This study aims to formulate a learning method of vocal improvisation techniques for scat singing. The data collection process is carried out by observing the learning process during lectures, interviews with students, and regular singing practice. Inductive qualitative data analysis, which is an analysis based on the data obtained then developed a certain relationship pattern or hypothesis. The research was conducted by qualitative methods, with the final result being a descriptive sentence formulation of steps to master the vocal improvisation technique of scat singing. This conclusion is expected to be an overview for lecturers in order to determine the right approach to help students master scat singing and dare to apply it in songs.

Jam Session for Seasoned Freelancers

Jam Session

Chords baited over covert bridges: jamming alive a collaborative multiverse

ABSTRACT Jamming is one of those Janus-faced words that is its own contronym. Just as cleaving can refer to splitting things apart or uniting them together, to jam in jazz is to perform improvisational pieces with a whole band; but it also means to wedge shut, breakdown and, in the case of radio jamming, refers to a mode of saturating the airwaves with white noise or false information. In this two-part article, a British Australian poet and Indian American writer present a collaborative jam session which takes up all of these meanings through a work of linked verse that explores creative (dis)location, silence, white and black noise, and the impinging of multiple cultures on one's aesthetic imagination and physical identity in the world. Informing their individual and linked practices through the execution of this work is a reflection on the mode, process and tradition of collaborative poetic works. It argues the worth of a collaborative yet distanced practice, which may mirror the dislocation of spoken dialogue, but also magnifies the trust each participant places in each other, a trust intensified by the conceptual and linguistic risks taken.

Jam Session for Early- to Mid-Career Freelancers

Southeast Regional Conference Education Session Report Session Moderator Jennifer Minarcik, MS, Principal, Jennifer Minarcik Biomedical Communications, LLC, Moorestown, NJ

2022 AMWA Southeast Regional Conference

In partnership with the Southeast, Florida, and Carolinas chapters, AMWA’s 2022 Southeast Regional Conference took place June 13 and 14 at the Luminary Hotel in Fort Myers, Florida. The conference featured the highly rated, small group, interactive workshops that are a staple of AMWA annual conferences. The popular moderated AMWA Freelancer Jam Session was also a part of the program, providing a supportive space for freelancers to share their experiences and concerns with other freelancers. Attendees gathered to hear 4 MedWrite Talks (short presentations reminiscent of the popular TEDx Talk) and had the opportunity to network with other members during breakfast, lunch, and an evening reception.

Creating and Sustaining an All-Ages Jam Session in Salt Lake City: slcJAMS, Salt Lake City, United States

Creating and Sustaining an All-Ages Jam Session in Salt Lake City: slcJAMS, Salt Lake City, United States

Nocoastjazz

Nocoastjazz

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

Sons of Kemet, Gorilla, Manchester, United Kingdom—February 19, 2022

Storied Past, Bright Future: A Provenance Jam Session

AbstractThis panel will explore provenance of the past, present, and future in information science and technology, as both a concept and professional and intellectual value. The OED defines “provenance” as origin, source, ownership of an artwork, or guidance to determine authenticity. Provenance today is not limited to history domains. It can be used to describe what did happen (retrospective provenance), what will happen (prospective provenance), and what could happen (subjunctive provenance). Provenance transcends disciplines, and this panel is intended for anyone who is interested in the world of provenance. Perhaps echoing life in general, provenance is more about the journey than the destination. The goal of the panel is not to find an authoritative answer to why we choose one method or theory of provenance over another. Rather, this “jam session” will empower participants‐ panelists, moderators, and audiences alike‐ to frame and answer provenance questions for their own work.

Creativity level of students in the course of collaborative flute jamming

The key objective of the research is to determine a correlation between the level of creativity of students and their experience of jamming in groups on the basis of pre- and post-tests. A total of 260 respondents were divided into control and experimental groups (130 people each). In the course of the research, the students took a creativity test in the first, second, and third weeks of the experiment. Students from the experimental group rated the jamming process extremely positively. In particular, they reported that these practices improve mood and musical skills. The results obtained can be useful in the field of psychology and musicology and also serve as an argument for the introduction of jam sessions into the curriculum of higher educational institutions.

Jam Session for Seasoned Freelancers—Part 2

Last month in the AMWA Journal, you may have read the first installment of the review of the popular annual conference session, the Jam Session for Seasoned Freelancers. Here we summarize and discuss the experiences, ideas, concerns, and challenges faced by seasoned freelancers that there wasn’t space for in last month’s issue. If you missed last month’s article, we reviewed managing stress; email, travel, and security issues; and sculpting your business. Here, we discuss doing business with friends, referring clients, legal battles, and one of the costs of doing business. Contributors include: Cathryn D. Evans Phyllis Minick Sherri Bowen

Review Essay: Am I Blue?: Black Music & White Male Self-Construction

Review Essay: <i>Am I Blue?: Black Music &amp; White Male Self-Construction</i>

Hip hop in practice: the cypher as communicative classroom

ABSTRACT The cypher, a circle of MCs improvising rhymes in a collaborative jam session, is a relatively unexplored topic in hip hop. Through its focus on community and reciprocity, the cypher represents a crucial nexus of sociability that enables researchers to examine the shifting positionalities and communicative practices of audience members and practitioners. Using a participant observation study and 30 semi-structured interviews of MCs at Legendary Cyphers in New York City, this paper examines how members of the hip hop community navigate their membership, how the cypher acts as a pedagogical space for learning hip hop sociability, and how white practitioners communicate their cultural commitment. The findings indicate the importance of adaptive identities between audience members and performers. Ultimately, membership in hip hop is learned in spaces like the cypher and offers a lens through which we can understand the process of doing and becoming hip hop.

Crisis jam session celebrates, reviews plans for 988 launch

Shining a light on the life‐saving work of crisis centers and continuing to strengthen the 988 workforce, along with building awareness and understanding of 988, and supporting states, territories and tribes in their 988 implementation efforts, are among the key objectives that the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) has outlined in its 988 crisis hotline transition efforts, according to a SAMHSA official in the days before the July 16 national rollout.

Jam Session for Seasoned Freelancers—Part 1

A popular session during the annual conference was the Jam Session for Seasoned Freelancers. The session gives seasoned pros the chance to share experiences and discuss ideas, concerns, and challenges with peers who have the same or even more experience. A range of important topics were discussed at this year’s session. These include managing stress, email issues, travel and security issues, sculpting your business, friendships with colleagues, referring clients, legal battles, and one of the costs of doing business. In this issue, we will cover the first 4 topics. Contributors include: Melissa L. Bogen Lori De Milto Cathryn D. Evans Gail V. Flores Phyllis Minick

PENGUATAN KAPASITAS PROFESIONALISME GURU SEKOLAH MENENGAH KEJURUAN

The quality of teachers will be better if the stakeholders are able to prepare competent teachers, so that teachers can make changes and adapt to the progress of science and technology. The problem experienced by partners is that not all teachers are looking to continue to develop themselves; limited trainings related to competency improvement, capacity building training models that can be implemented in schools. This activity aims to provide an increase in the professional capacity of SMK teachers. Partners in this activity are teachers of SMK Negeri 4 Lhokseumawe. As for the method of implementing the activities carried out by workshops and In House Training. The results of the evaluation of community empowerment service activities have been able to make a real contribution in increasing knowledge, understanding, and increasing the professional capacity of teachers through continuous training activities. The implementation of this service activity is able to help partner teachers in their potential to become professional teachers by participating in ongoing training through workshops and jam sessions. The knowledge, understanding, skills and productivity of teachers have increased through increasing the professional capacity of Vocational High School teachers.

Jam Sessions: Celant and Battisti, Modern and Early Modern Connections

Jam Sessions: Celant and Battisti, Modern and Early Modern Connections

Rock Trolls and Recovery

Rock Trolls and Recovery

Improvisation and Innovation in Teams: The Jazz Effect

AbstractWhile numerous models examine the linkages between improvisation and innovation, the factors that moderate this relationship at the team level are unknown. Consequently, this study builds on principles and insights from the jazz jam session framework used by jazz musicians and regression analysis to examine the nature of the improvisation process and consider how it affects innovation. By using unbalanced panel data on 2,749 teams containing between two and eight employees in the United Kingdom during 2002–2016, this study demonstrates that the success of the improvisation process relies on both internal and external factors conducive to innovation. Subsequently, the conclusions drawn may help entrepreneurs and team managers think differently about the role improvisation plays in the innovation activity. As a result, important practical implications are drawn for team managers and entrepreneurs intending to cultivate a willingness to improvise in teams and nurture collaborative relationships with external partners for innovation.