Teaching Resources

Russell Robinson takes your choir on an interactive, step-by-step journey into scat and improvisation using a demonstration choir.

Ideas and techniques for middle school choirs and jazz choirs from a master in the field.

Short works of classical music and imaginative visuals of animated dancers in the styles of Graham, Balanchine, Pilobolus.  Both you and baby will love it! 

Trace the history and development of Jazz in 2 30-minute videos with PDF teacher's guide.

Wynton Marsalis teaches the fundamentals with down-to earth humor, vivid examples (syncopation taught by dribbling a basketball), and a contagious love of music.

 PBS documents the migratory history of blues told by the musicians that lived it.

In the story by Jonathan London, a cat creates a sound all his own and sees how the rhyme and rhythms affect his audience.

Thacher Hurd's great story about Miles the Possum who gets a new sax. No more loud music at home!  So he forms Swamp Band and gets a gig with the alligators.

In the book by Petra Mathers a shy mouse teaches herself to dance.  From mambo to hip-hop, host LeVar Burton does some fancy footwork, then he takes us on a tour of dance around the world.