April is Jazz Month......Charlie Parker's Saxophone

April is Jazz month - Fusion and Jazz Rock

Extra credit oppurtunity for jazz month

Comment on this post with your favorite jazz musician. Include the following:
1. Name of musician
2. Type of Jazz played (ragtime, swing, bebop, hard bop, free jazz, fusion)
3. Date of birth and birth place
4. Most famous track/song
5. Link to video or audio of the musician


Example:
1. John Coltrane
2. bebop
3. September 23, 1926 in Hamlet, North Carolina
4. "Giant Steps"
5. http://www.johncoltrane.com/videos.html

You must pick a musician that has not yet been posted. Duplicates will not count. 

April is jazz month - Bebop

April is Jazz Apperciation Month

Next  week the students will be learning about the swing era.

Name That Tune 3rd, 4th and 5th grade

Extra credit for the first 10 students to post a comment with the title of this song.

April is Jazz Apperciation Month

Throughout the month of April all classes will learn about the different eras of Jazz music. We will begin with Jazz origins and Ragtime.