Now's the time
Subtitle: teaching jazz to all ages
By: by Doug Goodkin.
Publisher: Pentatonic Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: San Francisco, CA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
Subjects: Jazz -- Instruction and study.; Music -- Instruction and study.; School music -- Instruction and study.
Other titles: Jazz for Orff instruments
Description: This resource unites the Orff approach with beginning jazz education and offers 32 notated arrangements and 34 games and exercises. Games, songs, speech pieces, body percussion, and movement activities are included for children between the ages of 3 to 14, but this resource could be used with beginners of all ages. Roots music, jazz blues, jazz standards, and jazz compositions incorporate the use of Orff instruments and other types of ensembles. Key historical, cultural, and aesthetic backgrounds of jazz are presented, along with essential theory. Also included is a middle school jazz curriculum with sample student work.
Notes: Sound disk: Jazz for Orff Instruments. Arranged by Doug Goodkin. Performed by tje children of the San Francisco School 1985-2004. Disc 1: Roots and blues. disc 2: Jazz standards and compositions.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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