Anyone planning any of these for next year?

Gr 5 Piano in February/March - if I'm well on the way with the scales and pieces in the next week or so.

I'm hoping to to do Grade 4 and 5 jazz sax in sessions A and B. I'm also planning to do some of the clarinet and flute ones! They're great.

Grade 5 Jazz Flute for youngest in Spring.

I'll be doing Grade 1 Jazz flute as part of the AB Jazz course I'm doing.

I might be going to do a low grade in jazz flute later in the year (probably 1 or 2). Hoping to do an ordinary flute exam in the spring but then there'll be a longish gap before I try the next one, so my teacher and I agreed that a jazz exam in between would be useful - broaden my horizons a little bit.

T.

Bring on the jazz!!

I'm hoping to do grade 1 Jazz piano next year. Also grade 1 piano.

Good for you. I'm sure you'll enjoy it

Oh yes!

I've applied to do a BMus Degree in Jazz the year after next!

I've enjoyed taking students through the ABRSM Jazz programme but having given this some thought i think for 2008 i'll be exploring London College of Music Jazz exams purely because their programme goes from Grade 1 to Grade 8 and also includes a Jazz Diploma for students who have completed grades 1-8. As a teacher this offers me a broader scope of direction than the present ABRSM Jazz exams which only goes to grade 5.

However, the AB Jazz exams are good, well laid out and with a good variety of styles and backing tracks. Its possible by 2010 the AB may have the time and finances available to organise the remainder of the present jazz syllabus which will be very beneficial to all.

It's sooooo good to see more and more people getting interested in jazz Fantastic! I will be doing grade 8 jazz piano with LCM in piano either in Feb/Mar or the summer session. I may attempt grade 3 jazz clarinet with the AB in the Feb/Mar session. We'll see how it goes!

Definately! The format of the exams is so good.

I've always loved jazz, I guess thats why my first instrument was a saxophone! Such a pity how bewildered I was with the abrsm exams at the time, I was waiting for the jazz lessons to start, which never came !!

The jazz exams took a long time - but now they're here, they're fab!

Absolutely! They're so much fun!

Anyone else taken the plunge, this session?

me - G1 Jazz Piano

Great. Good luck and enjoy.

I am taking it in April at the end of a 4 da course run by ABRSM Professional Development Course

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Cool. Will you be taking grade 1 jazz clarinet?

You know who has been entered for G5 Jazz Flute

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Yes jazz clarinet. It's in Manchester so quite a trek for me, at Chetham Music School

No surprises there, then. She'll do fine.

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Yes jazz clarinet. It's in Manchester so quite a trek for me, at Chetham Music School
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Welcome to our part of the world

Would be interested but it's not available in my part of the world atm!

That's a pity. Where are you from?

UK originally - but now live in Italy.

I should have guessed by your user name!!!

Hopefully they'll be run near to you very soon.

hillyb

I'm doing the Manchester AB course too, probably piano bit thinking about flute too (grade 1!)

Once again it's on Sundays.

It's a pity they are all on Sundays when you're busy as I sure you'd have a great time.

I'd be extremely reluctant to do Sundays even if I wasn't 'on duty'.

Anyone alse taking a jazz exam this session??

Still no sign of jazz strings exams. Grrrr, etc.

That's a pity because as I'm sure they'd be very popular. Jazz singing would be good too.