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Jazz Expressions™ takes students' musical knowledge to new heights by bringing the immediacy and dynamics of the real world into the music classroom. Previously learned material is reinforced and given added depth, dimension, and meaning when it is viewed in the context of history, culture, and students' own everyday experiences.


Scheduled for production in 2008


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Unique Elements
  • Jazz standards featured throughout
  • Hear-it, sing-it, play-it approach used by the jazz masters
  • Innovative, easy-to-understand, and easy-to-teach improvisation
  • Rhythm section close-ups providing specific tips and suggestions for piano, bass, drums, and guitar
  • Jazz vocabulary
  • Jazz for All, incorporating non-traditional jazz ensemble instruments, such as violin, viola, cello, clarinet, flute, horn, and more
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