How To Jazz v/f3 1.09
Source: www.smithsonianjazz.org
Topic: Jazz
Sort Desciption: Support a local or national jazz program. The Smithsonian Institution .... Organize a special concert series during Jazz Appreciation Month. ...
Content Inside: SPONTANEOUS. NEVER ORDINARY. COMPLETELY GENUINE. MADE IN AMERICA. ENJOYED WORLDWIDE. How to Celebrate Jazz Appreciation Month JAZZ CELEBRATE 1 Ja zz Appr eciation Month JAZZ HOW TO CELEBRATE Band Directors • Contact your local jazz society to see if it offers a jazz education program, and if it is willing to collaborate with you. Perhaps the officers can recommend a guest soloist. • Invite a professional jazz player to be a guest soloist with your band. • Join the International Association for Jazz Education (www.iaje.org). • Join the MENC–The National Association for Music Education (www.menc.org) and utilize its jazz resources. One of them is the 76-page Teaching Jazz: A Course Study, created jointly with the International Association for Jazz Education. • Join the Traditional Jazz Educators Network and introduce your students to early styles of jazz (http://prjc.org/tjen). • Compete in Jazz at Lincoln Center’s Essentially Ellington High School Band Contest (www.jazzatlincolncenter.org). • Focus programming on the jazz legends whose birthdays fall in April: Duke Ellington, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Dodds, Lionel Hampton, Charles Mingus, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Mongo Santamaria, Tito Puente, Freddie Hubbard, Randy Weston, or Herbie Hancock. • Consider using scores from the Essential Jazz Editions series and have your band perform them. These may be available from your local library. Churches • Hold a Jazz Vespers service. • Commission a concert of a religious work in the jazz idiom, such as Duke Ellington’s Sacred Concerts, or one composed by Mary Lou Williams or Dave Brubeck. APPRECIATION MONTH www.smithsonianjazz.org 2 Smithsonian Institution Collectors • Collect extra or unwanted jazz recordings or books and donate them to a local high school, college, nursing home, or community center. • Join the International Association of Jazz Record Collectors (http://www.geoc ...
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