What We Do > Live Multi-Media Educational Programs for Young Audiences
In response to the overwhelming need for supplementary arts programming, JazzReach has developed a unique and diverse repertoire of substantive, high quality live educational programs for young audiences that are especially tailored to elucidate the art form and complement a broad range of students' everyday classroom curriculum.
All of JazzReach's educational programs for young audiences are highly immersive and interactive and are as entertaining as they are informative and actively engage students in an analysis of:
Celebrating the Great American Blues Tradition
Targeting students in grades 5-7, "Yes Indeed!” is an engaging, interactive program designed to instill a greater appreciation, awareness and understanding of the great American BLUES tradition. With its roots in the work songs, spirituals, hymns, field hollers and chants of 19th century American south, the blues are the DNA of all indigenous American music....read more
Celebrating the visionary American painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat and the jazz greats who inspired him
Targeting audiences in grades 4-6, Jean-Michel and the Be-Bop Kings, aims to introduce young audiences to the legacies of these groundbreaking musicians through the captivating work of Jean-Michel Basquiat and explores what they share in common and how their respective life experiences and the social conditions they navigated shaped their worldview, informed their artistic sensibilities and inspired prolific creative output....read more
Targeting students in grades 5-12, Poppin’! is an informative, finger-snappin’, foot tappin’ journey through the history of Blue Note records that aims to illuminate the impact that the label and its unparalleled roster of groundbreaking artists has had (and continues to have) on the direction of modern jazz....read more
Targeting young audiences in grades 3-6, ELLINGTON! is a highly engaging, interactive live multi-media educational program that aims to illuminate the rich, vital legacy of the great American composer, pianist and bandleader, Duke Ellington....read more
Targeting students in grades 6-12, this exciting, all-new live multi-media program celebrates the groundbreaking achievements of the iconic trumpeter, bandleader and cultural provocateur, Miles Davis. ...read more
This immersive, globally themed multi-media program features performances of all new commissions by prominent, internationally recognized jazz composers hailing from countries as diverse as, West Africa, Israel, Cuba, Puerto Rico, India, and the United States. ...read more
Hangin' with the Giants is a fun, high-energy program designed to promote the inclusiveness and accessibility of jazz while highlighting the legacies and music of some of the art form's central contributors. ...read more
Stolen Moments is a thoroughly captivating and informative program that introduces audiences to jazz music's rich history and to the names, faces and music of some of its many masters. ...read more
Get Hip! is a fun, interactive introduction to jazz that illuminates the art form's cultural origins, concepts about improvisation and creative self-expression and explores the role and responsibility of each individual member of the jazz ensemble and how they all must work together to serve and achieve the collective goal of making great music. ...read more
She Said / She Says is a comprehensive program highlighting some of the many important achievements of female composers, arrangers, instrumentalists and vocalists from early 20th century through present-day. ...read more