EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH ACTIVITIES
GRADES 4-8
NON-INSTRUMENTALIST
BASIC IMPROVISATION
RHYTHM SECTION
CALL AND RESPONSE
BLUES SCALE AND OTHER SCALES
2-5-1 RESOLVE
SONG FORMS
SWING EIGHTH NOTES
PULSE-TEMPO-METER
JAZZ HISTORY BY DECADE
HOW TO LISTEN
INSTRUMENTALIST
SAME AS ABOVE BUT WITH INSTRUMENTS AND ACCORDING TO LEVEL.
HOW TO CREATE AN ENSEMBLE SOUND.
ESSENTIAL INGREDIENTS: LICKS-CLICHES-QUOTES-SHOUTS-IMPROVISATION
RELATING TO EACH OTHER IN INSTRUMENTAL CONVERSATION.
GRADES 9-12
MORE OR LESS THE SAME AS GRADES 4-8 BUT MORE ADVANCED
CAREER
MUSIC BUSINESS
COMPOSITION
ARRANGING
REHEARSAL TECHNIQUE
BIG BAND ENSEMBLE
SOLO DEVELOPMENT
GYMNASTIC PRACTICE
BODY LANGUAGE
SIGHT SINGING
INDIVIDUAL INSTRUCTION
ALL INSTRUMENTS: IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS
STRING BASS AND OR ELECTRIC BASS IMPROVISATIONAL SKILLS AND BASS TECHNIQUE
TEACHING SPECIAL CLASSES
HANDICAP PERSONS
OLDER PERSONS
NON-MUSICAL
ADD SYNDROME
EUROPEAN CLASSICAL MUSIC
STRINGS IN GENERAL
STRING BASS REPERTOIRE:
SYMPHONIES,SONATAS,CONCERTOS,AVANT GARDE,THIRD STREAM,CHAMBER MUSIC,DUOS-TRIOS-QUARTETS,QUINTETS-ETC., ETUDES,SPECIAL ETUDES, SUITES, SIMPLE CLASSICAL MELODIES, BOW TECHNIQUE, LEFT HAND TECHNIQUE, PHRASING CONCEPT. BIBLIOGRAPHY AND RECORDING RECOMMENDATIONS. BASS REPAIR, PURCHASE AND SELLING.
COLLEGE LEVEL
MOST OF ALL THE ABOVE INSTRUCTION BUT AT A HIGH LEVEL ACCORDING TO EXPERIENCE. CONSENSUS TAKEN TO DETERMINE WHERE TO START FROM. ALSO MATERIAL SELECTED ON BASES OF WHETHER ACTIVITY WOULD BE DONE IN ONE OR TWO DAYS OR A WEEK RESIDENCY. USUALLY I HOLD A CONFERENCE WITH THE CLASS INSTRUCTOR TO FIND OUT WHAT IS NEEDED. THIS IS DONE WELL IN ADVANCE OF THE ACTIVITY DATE.
Protest Video Tape
Long Version
In Sequence
Tape #1
Art Blakey
Name Change
Black English
Oscar Brown
Call and Response
Olatubji/drums outlawed/Chuck Brown
Bid em in
What the music is to us
Afro Blue/ Coltrane
African Heritage
Coded Message
1960’s Period
Lorain´Hansverry
Prejudice
Bricks
Bitterness
Seeing the Black Family
Oscar Brown
Embellishing notes
African singing/free pitch
American comparative
Duke Ellington
Eddie Jefferson
Jon Hendricks
Judy Collins
Oscar Brown
Dance as a protest
History of Recording Trend
James Cleveland and the Gospel and Spiritual
Revolutionary Be Bop
Hollywood Protest/W.E. Dubois
Dance Modifications
Blues/communications
Bo Diddley
I’m a Man
Oscar Brown
Rhythm and Blues
Cover Songs
Revolutionary 1960’s
Gil Scott Heron
M.L. King
Marvin Gaye
Movin’ on Up
Oscar Brown’s “Brown Baby”
Gil Scott Heron
Whitney on the Moon
B Movie
“Nothing biut the Blues” White/Black existence
Albert Collins
Bo Diddley
Willie Dixon
Jerry Wexler
Muddy Waters
B.B. King
Koko Taylor
Exile Necessary
Snobbish Attitude Symphony Hall
Harry Belafonte
Banana Boat
Adam Clayton Powell
Excerpts and Excerpts
Leadbelly and Woody Guthrie
Jazz and Religion Segment App. 30 mins.
Call and Response
Gospel Choir-call and response
Singer with hat
Illinois Jacquet?
Minister and scales and modes
Hardtimes/Deliver Me
Minister in black suit
History noted
Thomas Dorsey singing
Preacher/choir/deacon/congregation/dancing/
analogy-/shouting/riff/lick/quote/going home/stomping/so forth
Willie Dixon talks about the Blues and Muddy Waters
Warrick Carter comments on call and response
Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians May 1965
Lester Bowie comments on black music
Minister closeout
Slavery in the New South 1994 From CNN: “Faces of Slavery” Atlanta, GA
Eastern North Carolina & South Carolina Gun Toters (shotguns & dogs)
Raleigh, N.C. Augusta, Ga.
Bill Kurtis “American Justice” Mississippi Burning
Protest Through Race Movies “Midnight Ramble” American Experience with David McCoughlay. Complete version is on my racism tape. Herb Jeffry talks about black kids aspiration to be a black cowboy.
Tape #2
SLAVE WHIPPING from cbs “A father For Charlie” with Louis Gossett Jr.
Skin Heads Jaane Whitney Show “White Supremist”
Shades of Intolerance CNN 1994 report
Atlantic Records form A & E TV History and cover records. (cover song history)
Protest in the early 1960’s.
Aretha Franklin and the 60’s. The extermination of Black rhythm and blue by White Rock music.
The Great Migration form Discovery channel promo
Politics in Sports
Fist Raising at Olympics
Mohammad Ali
