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

1947: Dizzy Gillespie experiments with Latin Jazz

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MAJOR ARTISTS

Betty Carter

“It was very important in those days for a musician or a singer to become an individual...

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Get Happy

Art Tatum (1940)

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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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