Group Jazz Guitar

Mon, Aug 31 Friendly Community Room This is a class for people who play guitar, but want to expand their playing to include jazz style playing. The session run for 8 weeks and are $195 for the whole session. Aug 31, 2026, 9:00 PM – 9:50 PM Friendly Community Room, 6729 Roosevelt Rd, Berwyn, IL 60402, USA Group Jazz Guitar This is a class for people who play guitar, but want to expand their playing to include jazz style playing. This class is for students that already play guitar at a minimum of an intermediate level, can play songs, single notes, and have a basic understanding of chords including basic barre chords. The class will explore Understanding musical progressions, forms, patterns of jazz songs Playing Melody of songs How to play jazz style chords up and down the neck of the guitar Basic soloing concepts The class will primarily use examples of songs from The Great American Songbook of jazz standards form the 1930s to the 1960s. Kevin Rush Bio: Kevin Rush is a guitarist and native Chicagoan living in the south suburbs. Kevin currently plays with the Gypsy Jazz group The New Deal, and with the original rock group The Stray Toasters. Kevin is featured on The Stray Toasters 4th and 5th records, Let Go My Ego and 5 Things as well as on LePercolateur’s debut record Pop Manouche. Kevin began playing guitar at the age of 13. Influenced originally by rock and roll guitar greats, Beck, Page and Hendrix at an early age, he quickly became aware of other styles: classical with Andres Segovia, blues via the 3 Kings, and ultimately jazz with Django Reinhardt and Les Paul. Kevin played in various bands throughout High School and College and studied Classical Guitar and Music Theory at Roosevelt University in Chicago.