NEA : Jazz In The Schools

NEA Jazz In The Schools

NEA Jazz in the Schools is a web-based curriculum and DVD toolkit that explores jazz as an indigenous America art form and as a means to understand American history.

TIMELINE

1935—1950: The Swing Era

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MAJOR ARTISTS

Dizzy Gillespie

“You only have so many notes and what makes a style is how you get from one note to the other...”

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LISTEN

New Orleans Function/Didn’t He Ramble

Louis Armstrong All Stars (1951)

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An initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts

Produced by Jazz at Lincoln Center

Supported by the Verizon Foundation

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