November07 2025 (Fri)
3:00 PM
3:00 PM
| Date: | November 07, 2025 | 15:00 (Fri) |
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| Venue: | Jazz Dock |
| Duration: | 120 minutes |
| Intermission: | Yes (20 minutes) |
| Status: | Available |
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“Developing Your Solo” – this masterclass will be led by British saxophonist Andy Schofield, accompanied by pianist Stanislav Mácha
The workshop will cover saxophone playing, jazz performance, and improvisation in general, with a special focus on developing your solo – how to work with ideas rhythmically, harmonically, and through motifs and melody. The aim is to transform improvisation from merely filling space into something with narrative and meaning.
Andy Schofield is a saxophonist/arranger from Manchester, UK (born in 1966), now living in Prague. He was a founding member of the Creative Jazz Orchestra in the UK in the 1990s, working alongside a diversity of international artists such as Kenny Wheeler, Bill Frisell, Peter Erskine, John Taylor, Anthony Braxton, Mike Gibbs, and Vince Mendoza. In 2005 Andy was commisioned to write a suite to commemorate the 10th Manchester International Jazz Festival, featuring the late John Taylor as guest artist. The music was recorded in Prague in 2018, and recently released on the CD "Suite For JT", on the Animal Records label.
Andy currently plays lead alto in Nikki Iles' Jazz Orchestra (in UK) and Jazz Dock Orchestra (in Prague), and in the past with Tim Garland's Northern Underground Orchestra, the Creative Jazz Orchestra (in big band projects with Mike Gibbs, Vince Mendoza and Kenny Wheeler), the John Taylor big band, Czech Radio big band, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, and Zürich Jazz Orchestra. In 2011/12 Andy was a featured soloist on both alto and tenor sax on George Michael's Symphonica European tour, and subsequent album and TV documentary (2014). Andy is the Musical Director and principal composer/arranger for Jazz Dock Orchestra in Prague, and has contributed arrangements to the BBC Big Band, Ronnie Scott's Club Jazz Orchestra, UMO Helsinki Jazz Orchestra, Bulgarian Radio Big Band, Zürich Jazz Orchestra and Czech Radio Big Band amongst others. His original piece "Hear My Voice" recently won an award in the UMO Big Band Composing Contest in Helsinki, Finland. He is also a co-founder of Jazz Dock Orchestra, a big band based at Jazz Dock jazz club in Prague for the last 7 years, playing original compositions and arrangements, as well as repertoire from the great jazz composer/arrangers. The band's debut CD "Tonight" was released in October 2023.
Jazz Dock´s ten-meter-long futuristic bar is full of traditional and proven drinks and cocktails as well as specialities and news for anyone with a fantasy. You can also enjoy Jazz Dock Kitchen´s delicatessen and treat yourself to a tasty dinner, all the time during the musical production.
Important:
- 20 min. intermission
- The drinks and food aren't included in the ticket price
- The seats will be allocated to you by the promoter after you enter the club
- We recommend arriving at least 30 minutes in advance
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Jazz Dock
| Address: | Janáčkovo nábřeží 2 , Praha 5 |
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| Capacity: | 150 |
| Type: | Jazz Club |
| Winter heating: | Yes |
| Wheelchair access: | No |
Popular jazz club on the Vltava river, the winner of the Czech Bar Awards in the category of the best club
Jazz Dock offers a wide selection of genres, jazz vibrancy, classical as well as new musical styles of jazz and blues. Besides concerts of many top Czech jazz bands, Jazz Dock regularly hosts leading foreign jazz bands. In Jazz Dock you will enjoy a really delightful combination of great jazz music in Prague and delicious food and drinks.
This extraordinary Prague´s jazz club is situated in the beautiful and romantic environment of old Prague, in the immediate vicinity of conservation area of Malá Strana and Kampa Island. Jazz Dock is surrounded by the unique 19th century buildings athmosphere, near Prague city center, very close to the National Theatre. Thanks to its unique location directly on the bank of the Vltava river it offers unforgettable views of Prague centre.
The high level of acoustic set up in this Prague jazz club allows live jazz music gigs until the morning hours! Often during a one single evening several jazz bands together as well as guest musicians will change on jazz club stage.
Jazz Dock has its own music concept. It´s dramaturgy is specific for its several-days concert blocks of significant Czech jazz bands and foreign bands and regular jazz festivals focused on a particular jazz genre, specific country or dominant jazz instrument.
Ten meters long Jazz Dock futuristic bar is full of traditional and proven drinks and cocktails as well as specialties and news for anyone with fantasy. Together with Jazz Dock kitchen´s delicatessen and efficient staff, Jazz Dock offers full-value enjoyment (not only) during musical production!
Jazz concerts in Jazz Dock are complemented by afternoon´s pleasant seating and refreshments during the day, and in the summer also in the beautiful surroundings of the outdoor café and on the roof of the club.
The club doesn´t have a direct wheelchair access but the club friendly staff is ready to help.
How to get there:
- Accessibility by public transport:
metro B (yellow line): Anděl stop
tram - Švandovo divadlo stop or Arbesovo náměstí stop - Nearest car parking:
National Theatre (Národní divadlo), Ostrovní 1, Prague 1