Communication:The Arts as seen through the eyes of

JAZZ

Introduction to Communication

Communication :

• Why do we communicate?• How do we communicate• What is communication?• Who communicates?• What effect does communication have on the

individual ?• Is there a need for communication and why?• How is communication perceived?

Journal Questions

•Is communication a form of language and why?

•Does communication require a form of personal exchange and if so what type(s)?

•Why would communication be considered an essential building block?

•Can communication be either positive or negative and can it be considered one or both of these types?

•Is all communication able to yield growth and how is it able to achieve this development?

What is Jazz?

• Is it improvisation?

• Is is dialogue?

• Is it layering?

• How do we define JAZZ?

Jazz is . . .

Jazz as Communication

“Music in Color”

chalk drawing and music

Journal Questions• How does the music make you feel?

• Document what instruments you heard, what color did you represent them with and what shape!

• What story do you think the artist is expressing in your favorite Jazz piece?

• What words come to mind about the music heard and the drawing you created?

• Do you see any similarities between your drawings and other student drawings?

Improvisational Storytelling

Creating a story through Jazz music and chalk drawings

Improvisation

•Invention

•Composing on the spot

•Without preparation

•Execute something offhand

•Spoken, performed, or composed with little or no forethought

Being the MusicImprovisational storytelling

Journal Questions

•What type of rhythm (beat) was used in the improv and explain why that particular rhythm was chosen.

•What type of mood did you try to present in your improv?

•If you where going to describe your improv as a sound, what type of sound would it be and why did you choose that sound?

•What type of symbol would best represent your improv and why did you select that particular symbol?

•Overall, how well do you think the audience understood your improvisational concept and why do you think you obtained that reaction?

Improvisational storytelling through

Music

Picking music that expresses the story told through improvisation

Journal Questions

Ba-Relief Ceramic Tiles

Portraying the music you picked to represent your improvisational story

on a ba-relief ceramic time.

Thumbnail Drawings

Creating drawings to represent the music chosen to portray the

improvisational story.

Journal Questions

Jazz History

Selecting a time period and explaining the importance of major

events and people of that time period because. . .

Artists Do Not Live In A Vacuum

Historical Research and PresentationUseful Web Sites

•www.jazzhistory.f2s.com

•www.jazxlass.aust.com/contents.htm

•www.outsideshore.com/primer/ms-primer-2html

•www.si.edu/ajazzh/

•www.americanhistory.si.edu/archives/d5301.htm

•www.jazzhouse.org

•www.jazzatlincolncenter.org/jazz/note/index.htm

•www.bet.com/atBET/0..C-24,00html

Journal Questions

ReflectionMaking jazz your own by connecting

all the lessons together with the

BIG IDEA

Journal Question

In a paragraph format, reflect on the following question, citing examples from activities done during this unit.

How do you communicate through jazz and how does this com-munication effect you as an individual?

Final Product

Creating a Jazz Communication Journal by collecting all the journal questions , brainstorming /graphic organizers and any other important material into a booklet format with the original chalk drawing as the cover