Job Chajes teaches klezmer playing for lead instruments. Any instrumentalist who wants to understand playing klezmer melodies, is welcome with Job for lessons on tone, timing and of course the crucial embellishments.
There is also the possibility to have Job as a band coach or workshopleader.
Job Chajes is frontman and co-founder of the Amsterdam Klezmer band. Always keen on keeping the klezmer roots firmly present in the band, Job is a lover of the traditional klezmer style.
He plays saxophone like a clarinettist and writes songs that sound like instant traditionals.
Apart from the AKB Job loves to play jazz music, Brazilian choro music and used to play baritone saxophone in an afrobeat band. At the present Job seriously composes music for his own Job Chajes Sextet aswell for cinema. Job finished the Codarts jazz conservatory in Rotterdam in 2005 and took many private lessons in music composition.