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Youth Initiative Shows

Youth Initiative Shows

By fusing house, funk, and soul rhythms with a traditional jazz sensibility, Jazz Ain't Dead Youth Initiative Shows aim to encourage the appreciation of Jazz and the Jazz Greats by introducing to youths favorite classical jazz standards and then re-introducing these same songs in more relatable new ways found in today's pop culture.  For it's historic value and theme, Jazz Ain't Dead highly recommends excerpts from our Porgy and Bess production, or our Standards on Steroids for a more diverse sampling of composers.  The JAD Café includes original music and new arrangements of top 40 hits and is recommended for young music connoisseurs in high school and college.  All shows include live dancers, live musicians, live singers, and live DJ and are paired down to 45 minutes to one hour.  Shows can be performed as a concert or hosted by an interactive narrator.  Great for music and dance students, Black History Month, and school assemblies.

  Recommended Shows for Youths:
 

 

JAZZ AIN'T DEAD Presents:  
The JAD Café

 

JAZZ AIN'T DEAD

Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin's 
Porgy & Bess


 JAZZ AIN'T DEAD Presents:  
Standards on Steroids 
-The Remix







 


JAZZ AIN'T DEAD Presents:  The JAD Café is our set designed for smaller venues.  Like the JAD Lounge, this set features intimate performances of our artists doing original songs composed exclusively for Jazz Ain't Dead and by our own Chris Rob and Teodross Avery, plus funky new arrangements of classic jazz, and top R&B covers re-imagined into a jazz-inspired sound.  Please note that the JAD Café is not a full show like Standards on Steroids, Porgy & Bess, or Nu Soundz, Nu Grooves, but a low-key presentation with only two to four musicians and a select number of dancers.

 
Looking for a CD?  Original music by Jazz Ain't Dead members Teodross Avery and Chris Rob are also available. 

 

 






JAZZ AIN'T DEAD: Celebrates the Legacy of George Gershwin's Porgy & Bess is a live music concert that showcases all new versions of the internationally beloved music of Porgy & Bess.  This high-energy production transforms Gershwin's classic score into the music styles of House, Funk, Jazz, and Soul and performs them in a way never seen or heard before!  All full shows feature live vocalists, live musicians, a live DJ, and live dancers! 

Music program selections include Summertime, A Woman is a Sometime Thing, It Ain't Necessarily So, I Got Plenty of Nuttin', Bess, You is My Woman, and I Love You Porgy.  See calendar for featured artists. 
Looking to take JAZZ AIN'T DEAD home? A music soundtrack and a companion JazzHaus Club Sessions remix CD is also available for this show.   

 

JAZZ AIN'T DEAD:  Standards on Steroids -The Remix is a classic JAZZ AIN'T DEAD concert at its best!  Holla . . . JAZZ AIN'T DEAD takes classic Jazz standards and transforms them into remixes of House, Funk, and Soul in a way that has never been seen or heard before.  This music concert features live musicians, live singers, a live DJ, and even live dancers with so much energy that there is no other option for audiences but to get up and dance out of their seats!  Music program selections for this show include St. Louis Blues, It Don't Mean a Thing, Summertime, My Funny Valentine, My Favorite Things, God Bless the Child, and Sing, Sing, Sing.

 

Looking to take JAZZ AIN'T DEAD home? A music soundtrack and a companion JazzHaus Club Sessions remix CD is also available for this show.   

 

 

 




 

All live stage shows are available for booking. 
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All live stage shows are available for booking. 
Click here to book your stage show now. 
All live stage shows are available for booking. 
Click here to book your stage show now.
 

All live stage shows are available for booking.  Click here to book your stage show now.