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Jazz at Lincoln Center can customize professional development workshops to suit the needs of educators at all grade levels. Sessions can be adapted to address specific concepts, musicians, and/or genres of jazz, or to address the needs of jazz band directors. Possible topics include the blues, improvisation, swing, Latin jazz, and the NYC Arts Blueprint.
Available workshops include:
Jazz for Young People Curriculum™ Workshop* (half or full day)
Audience: General music, elementary and middle school
This workshop provides an overview of jazz and introduces teachers to the wealth of resources available in this multimedia
classroom kit. Participants explore the fundamentals of the music—the blues, swing, and improvisation—through an array of experiential activities and work in groups to develop lesson ideas to take back to the classroom.
Note: This workshop can also be adapted for ESL, Language Arts, or Humanities teachers.
What is Jazz?* (half or full day)
Audience: General or Instrumental music, elementary-high school
Learn from the source! Explore the fundamentals of jazz with the help of an ensemble of Jazz at Lincoln Center artists, then watch the music take shape in concert. Participants will learn the basics—where jazz comes from, how musicians work together to swing, what it means to improvise—and explore the contributions of some of the jazz greats. Repertoire discussed during the workshop is performed in a concluding concert.
What is the Blues?* (2 hours)
Audience: General or Instrumental music, elementary-high school.
This workshop explores the many sounds, forms and feelings of the blues. Through music-making activities both with and without instruments, participants learn about the fundamental rhythms and harmonies of the blues, lyric structure, and varied improvisatory techniques to encourage self-expression. As Wynton Marsalis explains: “Whether happy, sad, or somewhere in between, the blues aims to do one thing: to make you feel better, not worse; to cheer you up, not bring you down.”
What is Swing?* (2 ½ hours)
Audience: General music, elementary and middle school
We all know it don’t mean a thing without it. But what is it? Participants experience what it means to swing through a variety of movement, music, and improvisation activities while also learning about the rhythmic history of jazz.
What is Latin Jazz? (2 ½ hours to full day)
Audience: General or Instrumental music, elementary-high school
Explore the fundamental rhythms of Latin jazz in this hands-on workshop. Learn about the pioneers—Mario Bauza, Chano Pozo, Dizzy Gillespie, Machito, Chico O’Farrill and others—and how they brought together the melodies and harmonies of jazz with Latin rhythms. Repertoire includes Latin jazz classics along with non-jazz songs that participants learn to arrange and play “in clave.”
*Workshop can be tailored to emphasize the NYC Blueprint for Teaching and Learning in the Arts.
For more information, call 212-258-9974.
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