MT picks: International Jazz Day
Friday, April 30, 2021
To celebrate International Jazz Day, we've rounded up features and interviews from our online archive, spanning from 2018 to today, to inform your teaching practice.
Pat Pascal
Jazz Hang: Diversity in Jazz
by Claire Jackson
Exploring Trinity Laban and Tomorrow's Warriors recent collaboration to redress the diversity and accessibility issues in conservatoire-level jazz.
Read here.
Jazz Hands: Richard Taunton Sixth Form College
by Rhian Morgan
Meet Sam Adams, a teacher at the sixth form college renowned for its jazz provision.
Read here.
Q&A: Gary Crosby
by Eleanor Philpot
Hear from the co-founder and artistic director of Tomorrow's Warriors, whose mission it is to increase opportunity, diversity and excellence in jazz.
Read here.
Q&A: Maddy Shaw
by Eleanor Philpot
An interview with the founder of Girl Play Jazz, an initiative that encourages girls between the ages of eight and 16 to participate in jazz performance and improvisation.
Read here.
Feeling the groove: Whole-class improvisation
by Richard Michael.
Learn six steps to getting your class improvising with jazz education legend Richard Michael.
Read here.
Rob Burton performing at the BBC Young Musician Grand Final 2018 (Greg Milner/BBC)
To raise a new song: The National Youth Jazz Orchestra
by Rhian Morgan
Find out what the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO) was doing back in 2019, then read their latest news here.
Read here.
All that jazz: Rob Burton
by Michael Pearce
Meet the second saxophonist in BBC Young Musician history to reach the competition's Grand Final in 2018.
Read here.
‘Don't let that put you down’: YolanDa Brown
by Harriet Clifford
Meet saxophonist YolanDa Brown, the award-winning jazz musician who has made it her mission to bring all kinds of music to primary school children.
Read here.
You can also find plenty of jazz-related Online Teaching Materials here.