Nashville Jazz Workshop in 2021, shortly after its move to Buchanan Street
No art form can survive without expanding its audience to new generations. Among the Nashville Jazz Workshop’s many worthy efforts and endeavors to broaden exposure and awareness of the music, none is more vital than its Jazz AM concerts. These are free programs held on Saturdays each month at the workshop’s space on Buchanan Street. They offer both stirring music and delightful visual entertainment, designed to introduce and inform children ages 2 through 10 about jazz. They not only spotlight the music from a performance standpoint, but a historical one. Past programs on this season’s slate put a spotlight on Nat King Cole, Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitgerald, Duke Ellington and Latin music great Celia Cruz. Before the year is over, mark your calendar for programs on Bessie Smith (Nov. 8) and a season-ending holiday jazz special (Dec. 6).
