Jazzmatic aims to fill a void in many children’s musical experience: that of hearing and seeing a professional level instrumental performance, something that most adults take for granted.

Many children who grow up in London never get the chance to respond to a live performance put on for their benefit. The connection between the musician, the instruments and the sound, which children can relate to their own experience of experimenting and performing with classroom instruments is often lost or non-existent in the throwaway pop culture of today.

The Jazzmatic show is scheduled to last for an hour, including a few minutes for the children to ask questions at the end, and in our experience that hour passes pretty quickly. We offer some flexibility on the duration of the performance and also, within limits, on the size of the group if required.

The band is led by Max Wynter, an experienced professional musician who is also an instrumental tutor with several years’ experience as a KS2 specialist classroom music teacher and as a peripatetic for his local borough. The five ‘pieces’ of the group are piano, bass, drums, sax and trumpet.

Jazz has had an enormous influence on the culture and experience of the last century, providing much of the most exciting dance and pop music of the earlier decades while at the same time becoming a sophisticated art form in its own right, embracing a wide variety of other music styles and in turn feeding into the development of ‘serious/classical’ music and hip-hop, to name but two.

Jazzmatic attempts to communicate this to the children, and the rapt attention, enthusiasm for performance and high level of questioning all attest to one fact:

 

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