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Healing Jazz

Credit: MY HERO

Host a Jazz Festival at Your School or Community Center

April is Jazz Appreciation Month.

Does your school have a Jazz Band or students interested in jazz? Have them host a jazz performance for the school, community, or class. Film your event and share it with MY HERO during the month of April, Jazz Appreciation month.

Examples of Jazz from the MY HERO Library: Audio

Billie's Bounce (Charlie Parker)

By: Charlie Parker (1945 Atlantic Music Corp)

This is a rendition of Charlie Parker's acclaimed jazz tune 'Billie's Bounce'. As a musician, I highly look up to Charlie Parker. Nicknamed 'Bird'.

Musician Hero: George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue

George Gershwin, born in Brooklyn, New York on September 26, 1898, was the second son of Russian immigrants.

Wild Flower (Wayne Shorter)

By: Wayne Shorter (Blue Note 1965)

Wayne Shorter's 'Wild Flower' is rather unique in the sense that it is one of the few jazz waltzes. In 3/4 time, Wayne's harmonic sensibilities really flourish throughout the chordal changes of the tune. Its original album 'Speak No Evil' was a monumental

Satin Doll

Oscar Peterson performing in Montreal in 2004. One of his last performances.This performance was after his stroke and he's still rocking with only his right hand fully functional. Wow. this would be a great sound for someone with (2) functional hands!

Daahoud (Clifford Brown)

By: Mainstream Records (1973)

We wanted to memorialize this wonderful composition by Clifford Brown as originally recorded by the Clifford Brown and Max Roach Quintet. We reworked it as a slightly more modern piece and extended the improvisations.

Musician Hero: Bix Beiderbecke - Copenhagen

Beiderbecke was one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s, a cornet player noted for an inventive lyrical approach and purity of tone, with such clarity of sound that one contemporary famously described it like "shooting bullets at a bell".