Jazz and Kids! Wednesday, February 13, 2019
recommended by Jen Sper, School Choral and Classroom Music Specialist
Incorporate jazz into your elementary musical classroom with one of these great new resources!
Jazz and Kids (Active Songs for a Swingin’ Classrom) by Rosana Eckert & Sharon Burch
Experience jazz in the music classroom with this swingin’ collection designed for kids! Each song is written and arranged in a distinctive jazz style, or groove, while keeping it fun with movement, a singing game or activity – learning music concepts in the process. The music, piano/vocal arrangements and recordings are authentic and true to jazz. Experience 12-bar blues, scat singing, call and response, improvisation, swing, New Orleans Second Line and more! Above all, have fun and swing! Suggested for Grades 1-5.
Jazz for Young People Volume 2 (Louis Armstrong) by Sharon Burch & Wynton Marsalis
“Jazz for Young People” brings the language of jazz to you and your students through great literature combined with learning by doing! This second volume includes step-by-step lessons that combine content and audio video recordings of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz at Lincoln Center artists with interactive student learning, including classroom instruments that every music teacher already owns or can easily afford. Perfect for the general music classroom (grades 2 and up), community jazz education courses and beginning jazz ensembles. Directors can adapt for band instruments, providing a hands-on approach to historical content that makes jazz relevant to your students. This easy-to-present resource is designed for a teacher who may or may not be trained in America’s art form bringing jazz to the next generation. Digital downloads include: Step-by-step lesson slides to project, audio recordings of each song and Wynton Marsalis sharing background information, as well as reproducible activity assessment worksheets. Plus, you will have FREE access to corresponding video clips for each lesson. Also available: Volume 1 (New Orleans and Jelly Roll Morton). Suggested for Grades 2 and up.
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About the Author:
Jen Sper has been with Stanton’s since 2006. A former middle school and high school choral director, she holds a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Baldwin Wallace College Conservatory of Music. An active choral singer and accompanist throughout the Central Ohio area, she also enjoys good food, running (to counteract the good food…) and the Muppets.