JESSICA PURBA ON “YOUTH GOT JAZZ”
YOUTHQUAKE BEHIND YOUTH GOT JAZZ
It was at the earliest of February when we started the Team Development class, and soon after given the opportunity to build our dream project. I’d rather phrased it as an opportunity instead of final assignment, cause through this project I know I’ll be exceeding experiences to be the better. And I did.
Constituting a project as team leader, whether in a small or a large scale; it definitely need high dedication of commitment and good management skill. Thank be to God, He gave me a good team to work with and a good school where I could actually learn real time management skill.
Why Jazz Event? it just popped out of our head, since three quarter of the team member were a good Jazz listener. And Why Music Clinic? Frankly speaking, transferring a knowledge slash education doesn’t always have to go with the formal and academics frame. A learning-process could also be fun, dynamic and Jazzy! As a first fresh start we successfully bold-streaking seminar out of our list.
Where do we begin? After acknowledging the main goal that we want to enhance, we started on by making the concept. A groovy yet enjoyable music clinic. Starting with the clinician, since the “Modern Jazz” theme that we wanted to persuade to the young generation we decided to starred young talented Jazz musician like Barry Likumahuwa and Sandy Winarta. But we also need the figure from earlier Jazz era, thus Indra Lesmana and Beben Jazz as the moderator of the clinic also included.
To add more lively and chillax ambiance on the clinic we also decided to put three band performances, two at the start from newly arised Jazz band “Aliansi” and “Revival Generation Project” from Komunitas Jazz Kemayoran. Later on Barry Likumahuwa Project performance ended the show.
Youth Got Jazz
Conceptualizing done, it’s financing time. I wouldn’t say financing such a medium event is one easy task. Much more of challenging. After a mere progress of the event conceptualizing and approvals we only got two months left before the running show to flock the cash, the merrier cash the better right?
I don’t know how, along the rest of my team member who also don’t have the slightest idea how to finance this seventy and so mio event. But miracles happen, at the end of the day through blood and tears we made it on stock. Thanks to PT Gurita Lintas Samudera, PT Sandabi Indah Lestari, Music Town Jakarta, Medco Agro and Blitzmegaplex. (sponsor-red.)
Marketing at this socmed phenomenon era is like jumping off a seaside cliff on a lazy midday swim; fun, creative skill needed, risky and free. You can jump off that cliff many times as you like, but the risk is all yours to get. If you ever see me or any other twitter/jazz enthusiast retweeting the @YouthGotJazz tweet, you’ll get the idea.
Even though we are still at the fourth semester on our second college year it doesn’t give us excuses for being an unprofessional organizer, each time on the making of music clinic progress we always try to give our best professional representation. Hope it shows along at negotiation time and the rest of administration hustle when externals involved.
The event successfully held on the late June 23rd 2011 at Rolling Stone Cafe Indonesia, it was of course a grande réussite. Lots of critiques and suggestion towards the show, mostly positive. Huge thanks and request from the clinic participants for an annual “Youth Got Jazz” event, oh well the group are still thinking about this stuff. (the last statement are meant to be a #kode for future annual sponsorship-partner of the Youth Got Jazz event-red.)
These are few comments from the performer:
“It was a show of exclamation, cool and well-organized. I have no complaints.” – Indra Lesmana
“This kind of show should be made regular, because the value that comes within is what I’ve been fighting for throughout times and all that the jazz people should preserve. Regeneration for the better young jazz musician. Loved the concept.” – Beben Jazz
For more details of the show please visit http://de.tk/AKRal or @YouthGotJazz on twitter. Article written by Jessica Purba (Twitter @JessPurba) /Photo: Personal Archive
