NEA Jazz In The Schools
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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.

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1947: Dizzy Gillespie experiments with Latin Jazz

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Maple Leaf Rag

Sidney Bechet (1932)

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An initiative of the National Endowment for the ArtsProduced by Jazz at Lincoln CenterSupported by the Verizon Foundation

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