With Get Jazzed, San Jose Jazz brings jazz education and a smoke-free message to close to 4000 students each school year!

Get Jazzed is…
• A highly successful in-school program
• For children from 3rd to 8th grade
• An interactive setting
• Educators who are professional musicians

What kids learn
• Jazz history
• Rhythms and instruments
• Improvisation
• How to listen to jazz

Program includes
• One 45 classroom lessons
• One 50 minute interactive jazz workshop, combining 2 or 3 classes
• A strong anti-tobacco/drug education component
• Lesson packet and CD for each student

What teachers think
- "A wonderful presentation with enthusiastic performers."
- "Terrific! Engaging!"
- "I was very impressed. The program is informative and entertaining; the children are excited about jazz."
- "Excellent! I liked the survey as well as the small size of the audience."
- "On a scale of 1-10, I would rate it a '10'!"
- "Great! Exciting. Approachable and comfortable."
- "Fantastic! I liked the smalls groups and coming in advance a couple of days before the performance."

What kids think
- “Thank you for teaching us about Jazz. I also learned that cigarettes are really bad for your lungs. I learned that you don’t bet your life on a cigarette!”
- “You taught us a lot about music and what happens when we do drugs. I hope you come back to our school to continue playing music.”
- “thank you so much for the AWESOME jazz concert! The CD you gave me is cool…I think Jazz is a hit on my ‘favorite genres’ list of music”