001[Music] so cute [Music] I [Music] they [Music] spe welcome everyone my name is Cynthia bti I'm one of the music directors here at Continental School District this is the fourth grade class and today they will be performing the musical Jazz for you before we get started a couple of recognitions I do want to thank the fourth grade team for being flexible with our rehearsals today The Specialist Team for all their support and making sure that our students can get together and rehearse as a group and um as well as Mrs quos Mr lean for all their support with our music program I'm really excited to be here today with you all and show and have you see all the hard work that your students have put into this last recognition before I forget the c
002um the Continental foundations they have been really great about providing a lot of our props for us for these musicals in the past so you'll see some of the props being used today um just a shout out to them we're gonna go ahead and get started [Music] Jaz is jazz is a unique kind of music that was born in America at the turn of the 20th century the City of New Orleans played an important part of the development of Billy Jack way back then the people of New Orleans um um came from many different cultures there were African-Americans as well as cre were the descendants of mixed African French and Spanish Heritage there were also people from Europe Latin America and the Caribbean all of these different cultures had their own musical Traditions as all
003these people come together to play music many different styles of jazz begin to emerge some of these Styles include dixyland bbop swing and the [Applause] [Music] blues yes [Music] sing in America Jaz is music every know [Music] [Applause] [Music] orans re [Music] play Sing s ja [Music] CH s [Music] sing s sing sing [Music] [Applause] the blues is the musical style that the African amican commity it came from plantation work spirituals and it was used to impress sness and hard although jazz is turn into Boo and turn into jazz the blues has found its way into almost every style of 20th music from folk country pop and of course jazz the word blue is has even become another way of saying sad so if you find yourself feeling sad at least you know you can
004always sing the L [Music] and and here I you feel so you [Applause] [Music] I [Music] and [Music] [Applause] [Music] know [Music] [Applause] I know one of the earliest STS of jazz with Dy land a blending of African rhythms and an improvisation of European instruments such as the trumpet clarinet or Trum Dixie Land musicians combine musical ideas from Brash band Marans marchs rag time and blues over a steady Rhythm played by a Rhythm Section some of the instruments in a dixyland group played a melody others improvised your Jazz the song Disneyland jazz is also known as New or Jazz it wasn't actually called dixyland until it started to move north out of Luanda because New Orleans is on the Mississippi River it was easy for musicians to travel North bringing their music other cities quickly
005became known for jazz including Kansas City s Chicago and New York Young Americans in particular really like this new style of music they often listen to it and dance radios and record players were becoming more widely available which also helped the popularity of jazz almost anyone can listen to it on American Airwaves and dance halls and even their own homes Jazz truly is spring across the line [Music] the [Music] is here to [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] to the [Applause] [Music] as Jazz spread across the country and even around the world it also in the 1930s a new kind of J known as the big band s s music was energetic and fun to dance Too jasan group to include four trumpets four trumpets drum bones and five woods and rym section they toured
006all over the United States and filled our country with the sound swim a new style jazz C but was made in the 1940s was a complex St of jazz including fast Melodies and uh improvisation beop showcases the technical skills of players that had a frantic feel to it some people didn't care for It While others thought it was genius pool Jazz also appeared later in the 1940s but it is very different from beop the word pool meant the style was slow and relaxed in the 1950s and 60s I Latin dances had a strong influence at jazz such as the S and the BOS NOA became extremely popular in the United States Jazz has own unique sound us a wi variety of perspective such as and the cool thing about Latin jazz is that it doesn't
007always swing you see not all jazz music has a swing feeli to it if you ever wondered what it means to swing or not the swing GL I show you [Music] [Applause] [Music] to S to that is that is the [Music] to S not to s [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] today jazz continues to be to evolve and blend with music with other music whether it's Jazz Rock contemporary jazz or another new styo of jazz is still growing and changing jazz is about personal expression emotion and communication although there have been many great jazz musicians over the years some of them stand out as true Legends the song song was one of the first well-known Jazz musicians he played the trumpet and was famous for his unique rby voice everybody called him Sato Duke Duke
008Ellington was a jazz comp composer pianist and big band leader for many years many of his words became ja like thing Miles Davis was also a jazz trumeter composer and B reader he was a real Pioneer in many different styles of jazz Sean C was a jazz pioneer he's considered to be one of the most influential saxophonist and Jazz history eleph face can make any song a jazz song when she sang it she had three oal vocal music range and everybody called her the first lady in song Frank Sinatra is another great jazz singer who went on to become one of the most popular and influential music artists of the 20th century to today he remains one of the bestselling music artist of all time dizzy gesy was a Trum band leader and composer Bak
009the modern Jazz team but he was probably most famous for playing a bent trumpet and having on his puffy cheeks Dave breach played jazz piano and composed a number of jazz standards he's probably best known for his use of unusual meters Ry and tonalities Herby Hancock was another jazz pianist van leader and composer e he he was one of the first jazzers to embrace electronic instruments even today he is still on The Cutting Edge of jazz in the 100 plus years that jazz has been around there has been thousands of great jazz musicians we may not have time to talk about all them but we can certainly pay them a tribute [Music] for birthday [Music] [Applause] [Music] his [Music] why [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] all right let's give it up one more time for our
010fourth [Music] [Applause] graders at this time the fourth grade students are going to walk off stage and line to the side once they've checked in with their teacher you may go ahead and take them um please have a wonderful rest of your night and thank you again for supporting your students in music [Applause] [Music]