Four days. A room. A cycle. Mentorship over teaching. Working musicians, a room that keeps getting deeper.
Jazz Camp is a space for growth, exploration, and what we'd rather not call teaching. Mentorship is closer. Here, participants are guided, challenged, and carried by musicians who are still in the scene themselves — still gigging, still searching — and that makes the room honest in a way a classroom never quite is.
This is the third edition. Forty participants in 2024. Sixty in 2026. Small on purpose. The kind of growth that comes not from marketing but from a real hunger — for learning, for connection, for something shared, for a language that reaches further than a single stage.
Jazz Camp is more than a program. It's a cycle inside a living ecosystem. Four days a year where the Indonesian jazz community tightens its own knots — older players finding younger ones, friendships becoming bands, bands becoming scenes. The hope is simple: that the music here keeps growing, that the appreciation keeps deepening, that next year there are more of us in the room than there were this year.
In 2024, three musicians. Kevin Yosua on bass. Hansen Arief on drums. Sri Hanuraga on piano. The next year, two more — Nesia Ardi brought the voice, Alfado Jacob the guitar. This year, six: Kuba Skowronski joined from Poland, a saxophonist whose path to Indonesia ran, as these things sometimes do, through marriage — he and Nesia play in the same room now, on and off the stage.
Every mentor here is a working musician. No one teaches from a distance. The names are familiar to anyone following Indonesian jazz; the room is familiar to all of them.
It was a very enjoyable experience. As someone who's new to jazz, I think this camp is the perfect place to start. The coaches were excellent, making the whole learning process really fun.
I found the information extremely valuable and insightful. It was so good that it made me interested in jazz standards, even though I wasn't before.
Fun and intensive. Learning jazz directly from experts with such clear explanations was an amazing experience. I also gained a lot of fundamental knowledge that I hadn't learned before.
It was so much fun! Packed with valuable lessons, insightful teachers, and friendly people.
The atmosphere was incredibly supportive for learning together, with fun friends and very humble coaches.
I'm so happy I got to join Jazz Camp 2 after missing the first one. The mentors were incredibly patient, and they shared endless knowledge and experience throughout the 4-day camp. After Jazz Camp, I feel so happy that I can now listen to jazz with a better understanding of its structure and form — something I used to just listen to casually before.
Small cohorts are not a marketing choice. They're a musical one. The room can only hold so much attention.
2026 sold out. 2027 registration opens early next year, and the room fills fast. Follow along to hear it first.