This is the second year for the Berkeley County School District Improvisation Club.  Its membership comes from 7 & 8th-grade students who are interested members of this year’s All-County Honors Jazz Band and 7th-grade members from last year’s club.  The original purpose of this site was to allow club members to access solos performed/recorded by their friends, listen to each of their solos, critique what they hear, and maintain a record of all of each soloist’s performances to observe any and all progress made since we began in February of 2022.   All recordings are held virtually, online, and the students recorded their solos using their school chrome books (which have their advantages and disadvantages).

            We continued with the “Jammin’ with the Pros’ project (launched last year), both with the recordings the students improvised with and also bringing in professional guest musicians to “jam” with club members.  All solo listings in the top section indicate participation with a professional jazz musician, who is listed first and leads off soloing.  I hope to expand the number of professional musicians I can get to play with the students (it is so exciting to watch and listen to), but time is short.  I felt last year’s club made a tremendous amount of progress in that short span since starting, and I hope that this year’s club accomplishes that same degree of success.  Thank you for listening.

Sincerely,

Rich Moon

Date                         Song Title                                                        Mix                   Performing Artists

03/21                    “All Jazzed Up”                                                                            Lou Ianello, Wyatt J., Isabella C.

03/21                   “Rubber Necking”                                                                        Lou Ianello, Avery, J., Kris McG.