Now's the Time: Jazz For All Ages by Doug Goodkin

Pentatonic Press

Now's the Time: Jazz For All Ages

Music Educator Doug Goodkin makes a compelling case for including jazz in every child's education and offers a sequential approach for teaching it to all ages.

 Combining theory and practice, this book includes:

• Integration with the Orff approach to music education

• A developmental sequence for children between 3 and 14 years old applicable to beginners of all ages

• Games, songs, speech pieces, body percussion and movement activities

• Roots music, jazz blues, jazz standards and jazz compositions arranged for Orff instruments and other ensembles

• Essential jazz theory and key historical, cultural and aesthetic background

• A Middle School jazz curriculum with sample student work.