Jazz it up
Melissa Walker
Using the metaphor of jazz, inject your training seminars, team building, conventions and key events with new energy.
Internationally acclaimed performing and recording artist Melissa Walker, along with her all-star ensemble, performs a concert and leads an interactive discussion which will provide a new and entertaining perspective to foster leadership and unity in your organization. Topics can include:
Jazz and Innovation
Jazz and Collaboration
Jazz and Diversity
Jazz and Excellence
Jazz and Performance
Why Jazz?
Embraced around the world, jazz breaks down barriers and builds bridges. This musical language fosters creative thinking, listening, respect and passion.
What’s more, a portion of the proceeds from your event is used to help fund Jazz House Kids, a non-profit organization that brings music to schools in underserved communities.
Experience Melissa Walker
With her rich, multi-octave vocal textures and impeccable phrasing, Melissa Walker has gained international acclaim at concerts across several continents, working with such hallowed talents as Hank Jones, Kenny Barron, Wynton Marsalis, Sadao Watanabe, and Buster Williams; young jazz geniuses as Stefon Harris, Christian McBride, Geri Allen and Makoto Ozone; and the late greats like Ray Brown.
Walker has created a deeply nuanced body of work and new material arguably unrivaled in its reverence for America’s Jazz Tradition and garnered her a well-deserved Juno Award nomination and US Indie Award honorable mention for Best Jazz Album of the year.
“Jazz music is the power of now.
There is no script. It’s conversation.”
—Wynton Marsalis