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We hope we’ve whetted your appetite for summer jazz studies. With so many options, you only need to decide what dates work for you, what location works for you and, of course, what can you afford. The following pages spell all of that out and give you contact information on where to find out more about each camp.

Click the 2025 International Camp Guide cover below to get the complete listings. Happy camping! DB


Jolie Demesmin performs at the Litchfield Jazz Camp. (Photo: Stephan Papandrea)
Jolie Demesmin performs at the Litchfield Jazz Camp. (Photo: Stephan Papandrea)



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    “She said, ‘A lot of people are going to try and stop you,’” Sheryl Bailey recalls of the advice she received from jazz guitarist Emily Remler (1957–’90). “‘They’re going to say you slept with somebody, you’re a dyke, you’re this and that and the other. Don’t listen to them, and just keep playing.’”

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    As Ted Nash, left, departs the alto saxophone chair for LCJO, Alexa Tarantino steps in as the band’s first female full-time member.

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    Larry Appelbaum with Wayne Shorter in 2012.

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    “This is one of the great gifts that Coltrane gave us — he gave us a key to the cosmos in this recording,” says John McLaughlin.

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    Cynthia Erivo and Herbie Hancock perform “Fly Me To The Moon” during a Grammy Awards tribute to Quincy Jones on Feb. 2.


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