Jazz Camp West

VOCAL INTENSIVE

AREAS OF FOCUS

General Daily Schedule

Vocal Intensive

Guitar Intensive

Piano Intensive

Advanced Instrumental

String Program

Schedule at a Glance

Class Descriptions

2025 Vocal Intensive with The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol

The Vocal Intensive is an opportunity for 10 advanced singers to work with a professional jazz artist in a highly concentrated setting. You'll be working on concept, finding your individuality, the mechanics of singing and communicating with a trio and much much more! This ½ day Intensive includes a professional rhythm section with a focus on individual singing. You must commit to the full ½ day Intensive. No partial attendance.

Vocalists may rejoin our regular classes in the afternoon.

9-10am: Master Class
10:15am-12:30pm: Class joined by professional piano, bass & drums

About the Audition

Because of the high volume of applicants, you will be singing just ½ chorus of a song of your choice. Please bring a chart (lead sheet) in your key for the audition. You will be accompanied by a pianist.

What we will be listening for:
Singing in tune, good "time", memorized lyrics, phrasing, concept & style, confidence, and what you bring to your music. You do NOT have to be able to read music to be in the Intensive.

Note: For those who are not accepted into the Vocal Intensive, our Vocal Intensive teacher will be teaching an afternoon class as well. Please plan your schedule accordingly.

About Miss Faye Carol

The Dynamic Miss Faye Carol is known as an icon in the Bay Area and beyond, highly regarded for her powerful voice, astonishing versatility, and gift of connecting with her audience. Equally at home in jazz, blues, R&B, gospel, funk, latin, and hip-hop, she has developed her own authentic sound and unique delivery, delighting audiences young and old across the globe. After beginning her career with gospel music, Faye Carol made her name singing with Oakland blues and funk legend Johnny Talbot & De Thangs in the 1960s. She soon formed her own trio and gained fame in San Francisco's jazz, blues, and cabaret clubs of the 1970s and 80s. Over a 60-year career in music, this living legend has developed her own unique acoustic sound and style in Black Music - drawing from funk, blues, gospel, and straight ahead swingin' - and cultivated an audience that remains as diverse as her uplifting music. She has maintained a high level of musicianship in her groups, mentoring some of the Bay Area's brightest young talent including pianist Benny Green, bassist/composer Marcus Shelby, and her daughter Kito Kamili. Her vocal proteges include international superstars Kehlani and Ledisi.

Miss Faye has shared the stage with Marvin Gaye, Otis Redding, Joe Tex, Martha Reeves & The Vandellas, Ray Charles, Pharaoh Sanders, Joan Baez, Billy Higgins, Albert King, Bobby Hutcherson, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Buster Williams, Azar Lawrence, Steve Turre, Dennis Chambers, Bernard Purdie, Lenny White, Robert Randolph, Mistah F.A.B., Henry Butler, Gary Bartz, Cedar Walton, Ledisi, Billy Hart, Roy McCurdy, Mike Clark, Casey Benjamin, Mistah F.A.B., Philly Joe Jones, Lady Tramaine Hawkins, Houston Person, Vi Redd, Jeff ‘Tain’ Watts, Rickey Woodard, Elena Pinderhughes, Dayna Stephens, Dorothy Donegan, Pete Escovedo, David Murray, Chester Thompson, Charles Brown, and Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson, among others. Miss Faye is also a dedicated educator and founder of School of The Getdown. She has been honored with the proclamation of a city-wide “Faye Carol Day” in the City of Berkeley and City of Oakland & inducted into the Oakland Walk of Fame, the Meridian Mississippi Walk of Fame, and the Pittsburg Entertainment & Arts Hall of Fame, and has received countless awards including the 2014 Bay Area Jazz Journalists Association Jazz Hero Award, Jefferson Award for Public Service, four Cabaret Gold Awards, Top Star Awards Entertainer of the Year, & a prestigious 2021 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission.

More information at www.fayecarol.com | Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter @thedynamicmiss