With a change of title, our new Jazz Etc group got under way with Kevin on Tuesday 25 Mar 2025. The current area of interest is Latin Jazz, and we started with a lesson on how to play the ‘tambourin’, a percussion instrument played with a stick in much of the samba music.

We had a wide range of examples of the style, including the music that lead to the ever popular Bossa Nova, where the melody is more important that the percussive beat associated with the samba. Many famous names were illustrated in the clips that were played during the session.

Our next Jazz Etc session will be towards the end of May, so next month we will be hearing the choices of music of two of the members of the group, were they to find themselves shipwrecked on an island! That will take place on 22 April 2025 at 2pm.