Jazz For Education

Date:Friday, 7th November 2008
Link to the news: http://edition.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/11/06/heroes.marsalis.yarborough/index.html





Keep your eyes to the monitor! It’s time for me to post after have been awhile leaving this post blank. Haha The post that I’m going to write is about my opinion on this article. This article is all about jazz which help to develop young minds. In this case, the brilliant 47 years old musician, Wynton Marsalis, co-founded Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York. Jazz at Lincoln Center sponsors youth events including an annual nationwide high school jazz band competition and festival, a Band Director's Academy and a popular concert series for kids use jazz as part of his career to inspire and cultivate young minds. He also stated that jazz helps younger kids, especially, to connect with their innermost feelings and learn that there is nothing wrong with being real. Vary from his partner which also his idol, David Yarborough; he started to be in the business after the 1988 death of one of his students in a drug trafficking incident. That’s why Yarborough decided to create a program geared toward music enrichment and mentorship during off-school hours. Isn’t this inspiring? Well, I won’t deny anything about how music can develop our brains. Many people and majority is from students saying that music help to confide in with our daily frustrations. The irritation from those who pinches your last nerve from your mother who asked to do house chores to your sister who took your favourite pen to your boyfriend or girlfriend who started to start a fight, the one you envision yourself punching in the nose, or the tutors who won't accept your late paper because you were late by five minutes. Well, that’s quite some, right? So what we need is just turn on our ipod / mp3 / radio/ turn on mtv / channel v and let the music keep you high darlin’! =)





p/s so Ms Sheena, do you have any latest song? =)