California Jazz Conservatory

The Jazzschool at California Jazz Conservatory is a community music school and former private conservatory in Berkeley, California. It was the only independent music conservatory in the United States devoted solely to jazz and related styles of music. Located in the Downtown Berkeley Arts District, the CJC offered Associate, Bachelor's, and Master's degrees in Jazz Studies. The conservatory also offers community education classes and workshops for instrumentalists and vocalists and precollege youth programs for beginning, intermediate and advanced musicians. In July 2024, the conservatory announced that it would end its degree programs due to "significantly decreased enrollment and financial constraints." The degree programs ended after the fall 2024 semester, but community music programs continue under the name Jazzschool.