Jazz for Young People - Volume 1

Teaching tips for the Jazz for Young People Teacher' Guide - Volume 1

Teaching Tips for Jazz for Young People Teacher's Guide, Volume 1

A shortcut for busy teachers to preview the lessons and teach today!

One free complete lesson is included.

(Instructions for the download included in the online course.)

The complete set of lessons is available from your favorite music store or online.

Designed for teachers who may or may not be trained in America’s art form, making jazz accessible to everyone.

Hands-On Jazz for Young People – The Birth of Jazz: New Orleans

A general music introduction to the “big four” and “collective improvisation” of New Orleans jazz. Interactive jazz lessons created with the content of Wynton Marsalis and Jazz At Lincoln Center (JALC) recordings. Students play pitched and unpitched instruments along with great jazz standards of New Orleans jazz and the recordings of JALC artists. Sharon Burch, an education consultant for JALC, shares newly developed interactive lessons from Wynton Marsalis’s Jazz for Young People resource. Interactive jazz theory incorporating 21st Century Skills.


Watch this video first!

A walk-through of how Jazz for Young People works. This 50-minute video will walk you through exactly how these innovative lessons can work for you and your students in the classroom or online.


“Every class has had so much fun with this lesson. I highly, highly recommend Jazz for Young People!!”

- Anna Santiago, Elementary Music Teacher, Bakersfield, CA

"I really enjoyed using the Jazz for Young People materials. They were engaging for even my most difficult classes."

-- Marie Miller, Music Teacher, Cheston Elementary School, Easton, PA

"I couldn’t wait to get home and write you about my first Lesson 1 of the JFYP book. I did it today with all 6 of my class today (and which was K, 1, 2, 3, 4 and 5th grades.) I watched the lesson videos you provided last night, and downloaded the slides to my computer when I got to school – with just 10 minutes before the first class started. It was all so easy to follow, and I taught the same lesson all day and the kids were so engaged."

- Amanda Heister, Elementary Music Teacher, Hobbs, New Mexico

Your Instructor


Sharon Burch
Sharon Burch

Sharon Burch serves as an elementary education consultant for Jazz At Lincoln Center and as the Managing Director of the Jazz Education Network (JEN). She is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early and Middle Childhood Music, a certified teacher with the International Piano Teaching Foundation, and holds a master’s degree as a Professional Educator. She’s the national bestselling author of the Freddie the Frog®Book series, teaching resources, musicals and jazz education teaching strategies for the classroom setting.


Course Curriculum


  JFYP Volume 1 Overview
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  The Birthplace of Jazz - New Orleans
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  Jelly Roll Morton
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