Jazz Arts Initiative (JAI) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the presentation, education, and promotion of jazz and related art forms. JAI was established in 2009 by co-founders Lonnie Davis (President & CEO) and Ocie Davis (Artistic Director) in an effort to educate the community on America’s classical music: Jazz. Today, Jazz Arts Initiative offers learning opportunities and performance-based programming for audiences of all ages. The organization also supports professional musicians both locally and throughout the Charlotte region.
info@thejazzarts.org
http://www.thejazzarts.org
345 North College Street, Suite 313, Charlotte, NC 28202
Mecklenburg
704-334-3900
Jazz: The American Journey is intended for audiences of all ages and is particularly engaging as a 45-minute school assembly for grades K-12. Developed and presented by JAI Artistic Director Ocie Davis, Jazz: The American Journey Ensemble features some of the Charlotte region’s finest professional jazz artists.
This theatrical narrated program is interactive as the American Jazz Journey Ensemble plays notable examples from several styles of jazz, including ragtime, spirituals, the blues and bebop. Students learn each style’s importance and place in history and all participate in call and response, how to scat sing, and even how to dance the traditional New Orleans Second Line!
Famous names in jazz history, such as Louis Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Scott Joplin, Dizzy Gillespie and Duke Ellington, are discussed; musical terms such as 12-bar blues, improvisation and scat; and styles of jazz, including blues, Traditional Early Jazz, big band swing, Afro-Cuban/Latin jazz and more become a part of the audience’s vocabulary.
Lonnie Davis
704-334-3900
info@thejazzarts.org
10/23/17 – 6/8/18
9am through 2pm
2 microphones and stands, electrical outlet(s), and open space for musicians to perform.
On-site at the School
Performance: $600
2nd performance: $150** (same day)
Literacy:RI.3.3 Describe the relationship between a series of historical events, scientific ideas or concepts, or steps in technical procedures in a text, using language that pertains to time, sequence, and cause/effect.
Literacy:RL.3.2 Recount stories, including fables, folktales, and myths from diverse cultures; determine the central message, lesson, or moral and explain how it is conveyed through key details in the text.
Literacy:RH.6-8.7 Integrate visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.
–Contextual Relevancy: CR.1 Understand global, interdisciplinary, and 21st century connections with jazz and blues. Clarifying Objective: Understand how music has affected, and is reflected in, the culture, traditions, and history of the United States.
–Musical Response: MR.1 Understand the interacting elements to respond to jazz and jazz performances. Clarifying Objective: Illustrate perceptual skills by moving to, answering
questions about, and describing aural examples of music of various styles and cultures.
–Musical Literacy: ML2 Interpret the sound and symbol systems of music. For older music students the performances help teach about technique and musicianship skills through demonstration.
JAI requests least a two week notice to reschedule a Jazz: The American Journey performance. However, as much advance notice as possible if preferred.