Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit

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Produced by David Robinson, Jr.

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The JEN Conference in San Diego marked the debut of the Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit. Years in the making, the Traditional Jazz Curriculum is the first-ever comprehensive curriculum for teaching New Orleans-based styles of jazz to student musicians, and includes lesson plans, teacher’s guides, music arrangements, audio tracks, video masterclasses, and a classroom poster.

* Please note that due to licensing and funding restrictions, kits can only be sent to addresses within the U.S. and Canada.

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The project seeks to facilitate:

The revitalization of traditional jazz styles through the increased participation of young people
The formation of youth traditional jazz ensembles in schools
Heightened appreciation and awareness of traditional jazz among music educators.

Through application of the lessons in the Kit, student musicians will perform traditional New Orleans jazz and its outgrowths and will compose new tunes in the idiom.

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The Traditional Jazz Curriculum Kit is designed for use within existing scholastic or extracurricular music instruction programs. It has been designed by teachers for teachers; it supplements but does not supplant a school’s existing music curriculum, and it closely ties to the National Standards for Music Education. The Kit presents traditional jazz not as an historical artifact, but as a living art form that remains relevant and exciting today and gives today’s young players vast opportunities for self-realization and self-expression. The Curriculum Kit has been deployed in classrooms across the country, from middle schools to universities, resulting in overwhelmingly positive response. This crucial project directly addresses the field’s lack of standards-based tools for sustaining early jazz traditions.

The kit can be requested by emailing [email protected].

This crucial project directly addresses the field’s lack of standards-based tools for sustaining early jazz traditions.

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