Spartan Youth Jazz is an after-school program for middle and high school students. It provides high-quality music education from professional Detroit musicians, educators, and entrepreneurs. Classes and rehearsals focus on jazz improvisation, music history, music composition and transcription, combo playing, and big band playing.

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Vincent Chandler, a native Detroiter, has studied and performed with Donald Walden, Kenn Cox, Harold McKinney, Teddy Harris, Marcus Belgrave, Francisco Mora, Wendall Harrison, Spencer Barefield, James Carter, Regina Carter, and Rodney Whitaker. Mr. Chandler has also performed with international stars such as Herbie Hancock, Marcus Miller, Joe Henderson, Clark Terry, Wynton Marsalis, Oliver Lake, Bobby Watson, Geri Allen, Roy Hargrove, Ravi Coltrane, JD Allen, Marcus Strickland, Walter Smith III, Robert Hurst, Jeff “Tain Watts, Russell Malone, Randy Brecker and Ambrose Akinmusire

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