The jazz workshops are a truly exceptional experience allowing for creative collaboration with musicians of high technical quality involved in one of the most exciting contexts of contemporary jazz creation. As with the jam sessions, the workshops are led by the musicians in residence who have come from America at the Festival’s invitation to set up shop in Guimarães for two weeks. This year, in charge of the jazz workshops is the pianist and composer Ryan Cohan and the band that supporting him at Guimarães Jazz – the trumpeter Tito Carrillo, saxophonist Scott Burns, bassist Lorin Cohen and drummer George Fludas.