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December 2023 by Google user
If you're taking classes here, beware of an instructor called Michael Smolens. I was his private music student. He is a predator who groomed me into massages with inappropriate touching.
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October 2023 by Albert S.
Poor customer service. I tried to stop a class I was taking at night. The service I received was lacking . I was hung up on by a silly person who thought that laughing at me was okay. This person felt that I was being rude to them. Being direct is often heard as being rude. I asked direct questions. What is wrong with getting a direct response. If you don't understand the question then say. In conclusion the class I enrolled in was miss advertised as a vocal class. I did less than minimum singing.
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November 2022 by Jaideep Subedar
It's a very nice jazz school and a good performance space as well! Some amazing artists do workshops here too which is a treat!
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May 2022 by Molly Fivian
Love the Jazz school!!
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December 2020 by Jazz H.
The California Jazz Conservatory, Susan Muscerella and Laurie Antoniolli are the epitome of con-artists and frauds. These women bullied me to the point of no return, stole all of my parents money, conned me into studying in a program that isn't even regionally recognized. They blackmailed and coerced my father into having me take a leave of absence because they said it would be better to save my face. They mocked me at my Rising Star show, which I was the first student to ever sale out, didn't let some of my family and friends in, including my mother, kicked me and a black student out of my teacher's show, and withheld lots of classes to extend my degree to get more money from my parents. Laurie also kicked me out of her class for her own mental health reasons. She is not equipped to teach, let alone help run a school. Susan threatened to call the police on me for wanting to go back to a class my parents paid for. These women are horrible human beings. They prize themselves on being advocates for Black American music and helping students of color, but deep down inside, they have no sense of what it means to be an ally/advocate for people of color. Their board of directors are mostly white. Only when the black lives matter movement and George Floyd killing hit is when they started hiring a few African American staff members. They have zero sense of what culture is. These people are more than just culture vultures. They are criminals. It's because of people like this, we are divided. They are just as bad as Trump, if not, worse. They are "liberal racists" with a racist, institution that doesn't know how to validate the real, talented students of color. Susan told me I'd look like I'd like Gypsy Jazz Ensemble in my audition. That was one of my least favorite classes! I'm a soul singer. I came from singing in African American churches. I am Assyrian. Don't you know the history of Assyrians? We eat people like you and spit you out. You are so uneducated, despite that PhD you have. It's hasn't gone anywhere, but up your heard. You play the piano like a machine and your friend sounds like she is dying when she is singing. I felt her misery when she was on stage with only 10 people in the audience. That is why you two would walk around me with your heads down, like you were inferior. Of course you are. You always will be because you are not children of God, and nor are you doing the light work that is needed to save this world. You tried to use your power to pigeon hole me and put me down, but realize the only ones you pigeon holed were yourselves. I'm curious what the New School will say about this one when I share with them what you all did to me and my parents. Keep putting out half a** musicians. Burn people's money. Continue perpetuating the b******* that invigorates this enslaved system. You are just a by-product of a country that was founded on other people's blood, sweat, tears, mother's, father's and children's lives. I wouldn't be surprised if your school is sitting on ancient, Native American burial grounds. You both are sick. You two need to get a note saying you're fit to function. With that said, F*** YOU and F*** YOU SOME MORE! My GANG is bigger than yours. Let's see who wins this time. It's a different jingle when you hear these car keys. Hard to get a handle on this double-edged sword. The legend grows legs when it comes back to haunt us. Ballers, I put numbers on the boards. It's bitches like you who are washed up, dried and tired. You ain't got no soul beneath those cold, icy blue eyes. What I saw was the devil in you both. God is not happy. Especially, when you harm the children of the light!
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September 2020 by Donna Benham
Nice space. Very intimate. Simple refreshments for sale would be nice.
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September 2020 by EmeraldXenax
Great place to learn and perform jazz with skilled instructors.
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February 2020 by Karrie L.
All Girls Jazz Camp is a really special program which all students and teachers are female. The teachers are wonderful. I highly recommend any girls interested in Jazz to attend the summer camp. Camps were broken down in one week format last year. Each day students attend a variety of classes (singing, composing, jamming, etc) so the camp was really fun. On the last day of camp, the students would perform at a very nice theater - Freight and Salvage theater right across the street. Parking is a bit difficult and expensive. The parking structure on Addison Street right by Freight & Salvage name "Center Street Parking Garage" is the most convenient.
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September 2019 by Rebecca W
Excellent accredited college, great community music school, great concerts and the cafe is unusually good. So lucky to have this place in our town. Support them!
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October 2018 by Dan Neville
One of the gems of the Bay Area music scene.
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September 2018 by Michael Golds
A community treasure, this school & performance venue is busting with amazing sounds and energy from morning to night. Younger grade school music students are bustling in and out with their instruments cases, very skilled high school age musicians play in various ensembles including the prestigious Studio Band, Adults of all backgrounds and musical levels play in straight ahead, bebop, big band, Afro-Cuban, Brazilian, Venezuelan, ensembles as well as many others. The accredited California Jazz Conservatory's high level of academic excellence produces some of the Bay Area's best musical talent with an amazing facility and stellar faculty.
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September 2018 by Andrew Bachmann
Review as listener: sometimes a hit, sometimes not so great, but a nice place to listen to some jazz for not a lot of money.
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September 2018 by Jacque Barsotti
Learning life skills thru music
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September 2018 by Juan Lopez Mendez
Hablan espaí±ol allí o sí³lo inglés...?
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March 2018 by Toni M.
The California Jazz Conservancy has opened a new performance venue, Rendon Hall, in the Jerry Fiddler Annex across the street. There have been a series of concerts this week to celebrate. This afternoon Alan and I attended a concert by the Electric Squeezebox Orchestra. I had purchased tickets online, which was a good thing because the concert was sold out. Tickets were $25 apiece, w/ a service charge of less than $1.50, a nice contrast to the exorbitant service charges applied elsewhere. Exterior signage could be better and probably eventually it will be. Even the address was easily missed. It's a small, intimate performance space, maybe a little larger than Hardymon Hall, the downstairs performance space across the street, which will continue to be used for concerts too. I always loved sitting in that space, listening to music and watching people passing by on the sidewalk above through the high windows. In Rendon Hall there are square tables and sturdy, comfortable wood chairs w/ padded seats. A snack bar in the lobby sells food and drinks. The bathrooms are down a very long hall and are new and very clean. Clear signage to the bathrooms would also be appreciated. The sound in the performance hall is excellent, as you would expect. I think I read somewhere that the sound is by Meyer Sound, but I'm not completely sure of that. As I sat there listening to the music I was reflecting on the wealth of music venues we have in downtown Berkeley, from Freight & Salvage to The Back Room to Zellerbach Hall to Rendon Hall to Hardymon Hall, all w/in a few block radius, not to mention Berkeley Rep and the Aurora Theatre across the street. We are extremely fortunate.
