Oriental Satellite TV's "Singing All the Way" promotional poster
At the end of last year, a large-scale outdoor music travel variety show "Singing All the Way" was popular on Oriental Satellite TV. The four guests in the program will go to the four cities of Chengdu, Shanghai, Dali and Guangzhou. Each station will find the local treasure musician within 72 hours and complete a 30-minute flash concert. The guests need to select the musicians who can best sing the sense of hometown and bring out the flavor of hometown to the ultimate stage. The regular guests of this program include Li Jian, Hu Yanbin, Hu Haiquan, Yan Renzhong, and Zhang Jie .
The program starts from the music itself, uses guests as the center to explore sounds in different cities, looking for "popular musicians" buried among the people, and providing them with a broader stage. allows music to return to life scenes while it can also be enlarged to the Huangpu River or in front of the screen, and use music to infect every audience in front of the TV.
"Singing Along the Way" allows more good music and more excellent musicians to be known to the public, giving birth to more excellent classic songs, making the Chinese music scene more vibrant and uplifting.
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Telling Chinese stories with music
Music treasure hunting group and Xiao Jun and An Yu
Music treasure hunting group starts from Chengdu, and experiences the charm of thousands of years of poetry. When encountering the 00 post-rapper every day; later, I went to Shanghai, and came to Hu Yanbin's Niu Ban Music School to listen to the independent originals of outstanding student Fan Zhilin ; then galloped freely in the natural scenery of Dali, and met the musician Marshall who lived freely for many years and the Puman band from six different ethnic groups.
even met Mandrian band guitarist Xiao Jun and drummer Anyu .
The eighth episode of the program, Li Jian was unable to continue due to work reasons, the program team welcomed Zhang Jie and went to Guangzhou, which was inclusive and open. The music treasure troupe met Li Wei Vzai , who had persisted for his music dream for ten years and toy captain band , which was sung in the Chaoshan Nanao Island dialect.
Music Treasure Tribune and Post-00 Rapper Everyday
Music Treasure Tribune and Puman Band
Music Treasure Tribune and Toy Captain Band
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The birthplace of Chinese jazz music - Shanghai! The second episode of the "Singing All the Way" program team came to Shanghai, the birthplace of Chinese jazz, and wanted to discover the voice that could represent the city of Shanghai.
Li Jian drove to JZ School
jazz originated in New Orleans, USA in the early 20th century. In the 1920s, jazz was introduced to Shanghai, China. During the Republic of China period, Shanghai's economy was prosperous and developed rapidly, and there was a prosperous scene everywhere, providing a wealth of soil and nutrients for the spread and development of jazz.
JZ School, located on Wukang Road, JZ School
After a century of development and precipitation, Shanghai has become the best base for jazz music in China, with the most chill music atmosphere, jazz bars, jazz livehouses, jazz music festivals of all sizes... and a jazz school - JZ School, has also been born, which has cultivated and transported many talents.
JZ School's student band performs on JZ Club
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Li Jian's journey to find Chinese jazz
This day, the crew set up the machines and lights in the small auditorium on the fourth floor of JZ School early.In the afternoon, four celebrity musicians, Li Jian, Hu Yanbin, Hu Haiquan, and Yanrenzhong, came to JZ School. They heard that Ren Yuqing was teaching band classes to the students on the fourth floor at this time, so the four of them went straight to the small auditorium on the fourth floor to "observe and learn".
Ren Yuqing is giving band lessons to Yu Xinyi (Pineapple)
Li Jian and Ren Yuqing are old friends of twenty years. As soon as they met, they greeted each other. Old Ren warmly welcomed the arrival of several musicians.
Under the strong jazz atmosphere, Hu Haiquan and Yan Renzhong felt fresh and curious about jazz, so they were "induced" by their teammates to go on stage to sing their own songs. Hu Haiquan sang Yuquan's classic "The Most Beautiful", and Yan Renzhong tried his popular single "Good Night".
Hu Haiquan sang the jazz version of "The Most Beautiful"
Yanren sang the jazz version of "Good Night"
Huang Jianyi, Ren Yuqing and Wang Pinhuan (JZ School full-time student) "mockly modified" the works of two celebrity musicians, accompanied them on the spot, and experienced the fun of popular jazz modifications.
Singers were also surprised that JZ School's jazz musicians actually had such strong improvisation and live adaptation skills. In fact, although the teacher at JZ School mainly teaches jazz, the ability to adapt popular songs is no problem.
At the end of last year, Huang Jianyi and Gu Zhongshan, Li Shihai, Toby Mak, Damien Banzigou and Xue Xiaolun served as live musicians at Karen Mok's online concert. Teacher Huang Jianyi also adapted her popular single "Cloud Day" for Karen Mok
Four celebrity musicians talked and laughed, and sat in the small auditorium on the fourth floor, starting their purpose of this trip - looking for treasure musicians.
Li Jian, Hu Yanbin, Hu Haiquan, Yan Renzhong In the small auditorium on the fourth floor of JZ School
JZ School students and teachers have successively brought wonderful interpretations of the jazz standard songs to the four celebrity musicians.
JZ Musician Xi Chenchen sang "Bye Bye Blackbird"
JZ School student Sun Yihui (Kiva) sang "Love For Sale"
However, what unexpectedly surprised the program team was that after listening to the singing of several jazz standard songs, Mr. Li Jian suddenly asked seriously and seriously:
"Is there any Chinese jazz? It is best to be original."
This sudden question caused the on-site shooting to stalemate.
Li Jian has his thoughts and obsessions. In the subsequent conversation with Ren Yuqing's old friend, he said that
"What's amazing about Chinese is that the lyrics of can give different artistic conception in a very short space. "
He believes that only by singing Chinese songs can this work belong to China, Shanghai, and JZ. Otherwise, I will always be just covering Laura Fygi and Billie Holiday.
"Covers are not that valuable, and people will not pay so much attention to them."
Li Jian talked with Ren Yuqing's old friend
So, Ren Yuqing mobilized the whole school to start searching for original Chinese jazz, and the program team was also at a loss by this sudden "extra test".
But JZ School is still a crouching tiger and hidden dragon. Several students have brought their own original songs to Li Jian one after another. He listened carefully to the original works of several students and gave sincere comments, but he still could not fully impress Li Jian with high demands.
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The old song "Nostalgia" was finally selected as the
After nearly two hours of intense discussion and the recommendation of the teachers of JZ School, Li Jian finally selected a song that represents the program in his mind, representing JZ, and representing Shanghai, from the classic old song "Nostalgia" adapted by Coco Zhao Ke JZ Big band.
Li Jian discussed with the teacher of JZ School
The first day of shooting has ended here, but the song selection was finalized and the selection was not yet available, so Ren Yuqing notified all teachers and students in the school to study "Nostalgia" and selected it on the fourth floor the next day.
The next day, the teachers and students of JZ School took turns singing "Nostalgia" on the fourth floor. After a long selection and consideration by Teacher Li Jian, among the many singers, it was decided to choose Zou Fan and Yu Xinyi (Pineapple) for duet.
JZ School Student Yu Xinyi (Pineapple) and Zou Fan received official invitations to record
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concert - Bund
On the day of the recording of the program, JZ School founder Ren Yuqing, principal Huang Jianyi, famous teachers Xu Zhitong and Chen Jiajun took students Yu Xinyi (Pineapple) and Zou Fan to the top floor of the Huangpu River Building. Under the reflection of the bright lights of the city in Shanghai at night, they performed "Nostalgia" affectionately.
Li Jian said: "Old songs should be sung by newcomers. I hope that in the near future, everyone will miss this wonderful night."
"To this day, people
To this day, people
Where to find the ends of the world?
——"Nostalgia"
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JZ School Teachers and students perform "Nostalgia"
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The final period of the program is filmed - JZ Club
The last episode of "Singing All the Way" is coming to JZ Club
"Singing All the Way" program is coming to an end soon - ten episodes of the program, four cities, five celebrity music guests, and dozens of groups of treasure musicians, put an end to the program at JZ Club, a jazz bar located in Shanghai.
The party was held by JZ's teachers and musicians. Xichenchen brought the title song of the same name of the new original album "Lost for Words" released by JZ Music in 2022. The musicians on the scene were keyboardist Yang Guang , sax Li Shihai , bassist Fred Grenade , trumpeter Toby Mak, drummer Yu Guojun .
JZ School Arrangement class teacher
JZ Music Signed artist: Yang Guang
JZ Music Signed artist: Lee Se-hai
JZ School Band class teacher: Fred Grenade
Jazz musician: Toby Mak
Jazz musician: Yu Guojun
Then, Zhang Jie took the stage to collaborate with JZ musicians on his hit single "Reverse War". The adaptation of jazz and the improvisation of the musicians on the spot made the song sound a different flavor. There were applause from the scene, as if they were at the concert.
Zhang Jie and JZ musicians collaborated on "Counter-war"
After three months of filming, the filming of the program came to an end. This time, JZ School and JZ Club were lucky enough to be selected by the Oriental TV's "Singing All the Way" program team, proving their own strong influence and strength. The tacit cooperation and wonderful and delicate interpretation between teachers and students convey the charm of jazz to audiences all over the country.
JZ School Full-time outstanding student Yu Xinyi (Pineapple) has cooperated with the top jazz musicians in China to appear on the big stage of Oriental Satellite TV through systematic study. Do you also want to be like her?
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JZ School All course introduction
JZ School is a jazz modern music school located in Shanghai. Founded by Gu Zhongshan and Ren Yuqing, Huang Jianyi serves as the principal. The school has an elite faculty team from home and abroad, which is in line with the international teaching system and diversified curriculum design, and has cultivated and provided a large number of talents for the jazz stage.
Systematic offline courses for thirteen weeks each semester. aims to comprehensively improve students' modern music literacy from five aspects: visual singing and ear training, music theory, performance training, band ensemble and stage practice.
Weekend group class (more suitable for office workers and students studying)
Eight-week weekend small class offline teaching every quarter. Students can flexibly choose combination courses according to their needs to improve their individual modern music literacy.
Weekend ensemble class (divided into children's group and adult group)
Eight-week weekend band ensemble class each quarter. The famous jazz musicians lead students to cultivate ensemble skills, learn musical arrangement methods, and accumulate stage experience in the unit of orchestra.
Private professional course
One-on-one teaching is conducted by a well-known domestic jazz musician. class time is flexible and targeted. Personalized teaching plans are formulated based on students' needs and overall abilities, so as to achieve significant learning results.
opens a small-class summer camp course for winter camp courses every year. In the courses that coexist with professionalism and fun, students will complete music enlightenment, find music fun, improve music literacy, and achieve professional advancement.
Master course
*Picture source: Screenshot of the program "Singing All the Way"
Zhang Peng took a live shoot of
** Program Source:
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JZSchool, providing more cutting-edge jazz modern music education.
If you have any questions, please come to the official account for consultation: JZSchool Jazz Music Center
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